Democratic Socialist Movement

For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria

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CDWR SUPPORTS ASUU-LAUTECH AND OYO NUAHP INDEFINITE STRIKES:

CDWR SUPPORTS WORKERS’ DEMANDS AND BLAMES MAKINDE GOVERNMENT FOR DISRUPTION OF ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES AND HEALTHCARE SERVICES. Government Must Immediately Address Workers’ Demands to End the Strikes! The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR), Oyo State Chapter, declares its full solidarity with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Branch, and the Nigerian Union

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Deepening Cost-of-Living Crisis – Tinubu’s Offer of Respite is a Facade

Labour Leaders Must Convert Radical Rhetoric to Real Action. Faced by a rapidly developing mass discontent over the devastated living standards of the vast majority as a result of its anti-poor capitalist policies ahead of the Presidential election in January 2027, the Bola Tinubu government has announced measures purportedly to alleviate mass suffering. This was obviously considered a necessity because

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Oyo: KARMAL’S ASSAULT ON TRUCK DRIVERS EXPOSES THE BROADER PROBLEM OF INDECENT LABOUR PRACTICES IN WORKPLACES

CDWR Demands Prosecution of Those Responsible and Urges Oyo NLC and TUC to Move Beyond Solidarity Visits to Build a Serious Campaign Against Casualisation and Other Anti-Worker Practices. The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR), Oyo State Chapter, condemns the brutal assault and degrading treatment of a truck driver, Mr Rilwan Olajide, and his motor boy, Mr Taiwo Yinusa,

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NENADI USMAN-LED LABOUR PARTY SUSTAINS ANTI-DEMOCRATIC PRACTICES AND ATTACKS ON THE DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS OF MEMBERS

DSM CALLS FOR RESTORATION OF LANRE ADELEKE AS LABOUR PARTY GUBER CANDIDATE FOR LAGOS STATE. It was not shocking to us when the national executive of the Labour Party led by Nenadi Usman undemocratically substituted an apparently money-bag candidate who never participated in the primary or is active in the party for the democratically elected Lagos gubernatorial candidate. This is

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SIXTY-SIX YEARS AFTER INDEPENDENCE: GOVERNMENT HAS NOT MET ASPIRATIONS OF MAJORITY OF NIGERIANS

Reject all Anti-Poor Policies In Lagos, Campaigns over High House Rent and Poor Waste Management are Needed Now! As the working people and youth, while Nigeria celebrates its 66th anniversary of the flag Independence from the British colonial masters, our living conditions have been devastated since the removal of petrol subsidy on May 29 2023 when President Bola Tinubu assumed

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