For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
NEW DSM BRANCH HOLDS SYMPOSIUM A new branch of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) – CWI Nigeria has been opened at the Federal Polytechnic Bida in Niger State. It held its first symposium on August 13 with about 40 students in attendance. Speakers included the president of the Students’ Union, chairman of the senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnic (SSANP),
Ajegunle ERC Commence Annual Free Holiday Coaching Daily increase in number of students, tremendous devotion from volunteer teachers HT Soweto The Ajegunle, Lagos, branch of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) has commenced its annual free holiday coaching. The ERC is a campaign initiated by the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) – CWI Nigeria since 2004 to campaign against education underfunding, fee
DSM Minimum Wage symposium in Osogbo By Ayo Ademiluyi The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), Osun State held a symposium on the raging issue of N18, 000 minimum wage the Osun State workers are currently engaged in. The symposium with the theme: N18, 000 Minimum Wage; the Way Forward, was held at the NUT Secretariat Auditorium, along Iwo Road in Osogbo
O’CLEAN, STOP THE RESTRICTION By Alfred Adegoke On 25th June, 2011 the Osun State Government commenced a compulsory environmental sanitation exercise which unlike what obtains in some other States e. g. Lagos State as a monthly exercise, the Aregbesola’s Government imposed a 90 (ninety) days exercise during which the Markets are closed 7.00am- to 9.00am, ditto for Schools/ Offices on
OYES: Aregbesola Should Implement His Campaign Promises By Kola Ibrahim When Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola was campaigning in 2007, he promised in his Manifesto, titled ‘My Pact with Osun People’ to “… create immediate employment for 20, 000 people within (our) 100 days in office.” He stated further, “… 5000 of these places shall be reserved for those who were retrenched
Osun State Socialist Democracy (SD) August 2011 Edition Osun State Workers’ Strike: Government must implement the N18, 000.00 minimum wage The decision of workers in Osun State to embark on strike to demand their legitimate right to a modest minimum wage of N18, 000, is commendable after the Osun State government had stubbornly and arrogantly refused to accede to this
MINIMUM WAGE: OSUN WORKERS HOLD CONGRESS AND REMAIN RESOLUTE Kola Ibrahim All the copies (about a thousand) of the new edition of Osun State Socialist Democracy (SD) produced were sold out at the Congress of the Osun state workers on minimum wage in Osogbo held on Wednesday August 17, 2011. Indeed, some workers made photocopies of the paper out of
Osun State Minimum wage struggle Workers determined, but leaders hesitate By Ayo and Raheem In a wonderful display of workers’ power, early August saw major government activities brought to halt in Osun State on the basis of an industrial action called by the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress over implementation of the new N18,000.00 minimum wage. While the
DSM Osun State Chapter WORKERS’ DEMAND FOR N18, 000 MINIMUM WAGE: WORKERS MUST UNDERTAKE TOTAL STRUGGLE FOR TOTAL VICTORY The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), Osun State Chapter, commends the workers’ decision in Osun State to embark on strike to demand for their legitimate right to a meagre minimum wage of N18, 000, after the Osun State government had stubbornly and
Minimum Wage: Urgent Issues which Labour must Address to ensure Total Implementation By Peluola Adewale By 12 midnight on Wednesday July 20, 2011, when most workers and Nigerians had probably gone to bed, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) called off the three-day warning general strike they had planned to commence later in the day. This
As inner cities erupt – a mass workers’ movement is needed to defeat the government Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary, CWI, England and Wales “The scenes of despair and explosions of anger like those of 1981 will be back on our streets. “Deprived areas of major cities – if not the central areas, then the ‘banlieus’ or outskirts
N 18 000 National Minimum Wage: Fight for Full Implementation Now! For Active Strike with a Series of Mass Activities Ahead of the expiration of its two week ultimatum Labour has declared a 3-day warning general strike to commence on Wednesday July 20, 2010. Already some state governors and the federal government have been making efforts to prevent the strike
OYO STATE: PRESS STATEMENT SUSTAINED STRUGGLE OF WORKERS WILL GUARANTEE N18, 000 MINIMUM WAGE Immediate mass mobilization towards the nationwide general strike is needed! The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) Oyo State Chapter call on the mass of Oyo State workers to remain steadfast in the struggle for the new N18,000 minimum wage. We join the mass of Oyo workers to
OYO STATE WORKERS RESIST N9, 400 “RELATIVITY PAY”, Immediate mass mobilization towards the nationwide general strike needed By Ayo Ademiluyi In the wave of struggle over the non-implementation of the N18,000 minimum wage, Oyo State workers have passed a vote of no confidence on the state labour leadership for their seeming complicity in the N9,400 “relativity pay” being proposed to
OYO STATE WORKERS RESIST N9, 400 “RELATIVITY PAY”, SUSPENDS STATE LABOUR LEADERSHIP AND INSTITUTES ACTION COMMITTEE. Immediate mass mobilization towards the nationwide general strike needed By Ayo Ademiluyi In the wave of struggle over the non-implementation of the N18,000 minimum wage, Oyo State workers have passed a vote of no confidence on the state labour leadership for their seeming complicity
Joint Action Forum (JAF) TOTAL SUPPORT FOR THE NLC AND TUC DEMAND! STRUGGLE FOR THE IMMEDIATE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE N18,000 NEW MINIMUM WAGE!! PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WORKERS, YOUTHS AND THE POOR IN THE COMMUNITIES SHOULD GIVE MAXIMUM MASS SUPPORT TO THE NEW MINIMUM WAGE ACT!! Being text of the Press Conference by the leadership of the Joint Action Forum (JAF)
KEROSENE SCARCITY, UNENDING WOES FOR THE POOR Press statement, June 27, 2011 Scarcity of kerosene, cooking gas used mostly by the masses is currently biting harder, the poor groaning while the big businesses in the petroleum industry are making brisk business. Though, kerosene had hardly sold for the N50 the official price, it had skyrocketed in the past weeks. It
Is Reduction of Political Parties in Nigeria the Solution to Socio-Political Problems? By Chinedu Bosah In the Vanguard of Monday 9th May 2011, the National Vice President (Zone C) of the National Union of Journalist (NUJ), Mr. Ambrose Nwachukwu called for the de-registration of political parties that failed to secure any seat in the just-concluded 2011 general elections. According to
DSM Student Committee Meeting Building Support for Socialist Ideas Among Students and Youth Report by H.T. Soweto. The student committee of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) – CWI Nigeria, held a meeting on Sunday 29 May 2011 at Zik Hall, University of Ibadan. 14 comrades from 6 branches attended the meeting, the purpose of which was to review the state
Minimum Wage: Labour Must Declare a Two-Day Warning Strike and Mass Action By Peluola Adewale The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) calls on the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) to ensure that the struggle for the implementation of the modest new minimum wage go beyond mere propaganda which seems to be the prevailing approach