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Pro-Labour Activists and Workers March in Lagos in Support of Labour Demand for N18, 000 National Mi

Pro-Labour Activists and Workers March in Lagos in Support of Labour Demand for N18, 000 National Minimum Wage Labour Should Immediately Begin Mass Mobilisation for General Strike By Keye Ewebiyi On Wednesday November 10, 2010, the Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO) in Lagos complemented the 3-day warning strike declared by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union

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RALLY! RALLY!! MASS PROTEST!!!

RALLY! RALLY!! MASS PROTEST!!! LABOUR & CIVIL SOCIETY COALITION (LASCO) CALLS ON NIGERIANS TO Participate in the 3-DAYS WARNING STRIKE (November 10 -12, 2010) Support the Demand by Labour for the immediate implementation of the N18,000 Minimum Wage without any Retrenchment Prepare for indefinite General Strike/Mass Actions should Government failed to implement the agreed new Minimum Wage within the 3-Day

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FASHOLA MUST MEET DOCTORS’ DEMAND

FASHOLA MUST MEET DOCTORS’ DEMAND Labour Should Organise Solidarity Actions Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) supports the struggle of medical doctors for better wage and improved facilities in Lagos state owned public hospitals and condemns in strong term the insensitivity of Raji Fashola’s government. Doctors in Lagos State owned hospitals have been on strike for over 11 weeks

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ASUU, SSANU, ASUP AND COEASU STRIKE

ASUU, SSANU, ASUP AND COEASU STRIKE Govt Must Meet Their Demands Now Nigerian Students and Parents Should Join the Struggle to Save Public Education from Collapse The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) supports the strike action of staff unions in all State-owned tertiary institutions across the country. We call on the respective state governments, particularly the southeast governors, south-south governors, the

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PHCN WORKERS STEP UP FIGHT AGAINST PRIVATISATION OF POWER SECTOR

PHCN WORKERS STEP UP FIGHT AGAINST PRIVATISATION OF POWER SECTOR Keep the PHCN Public! Capital NO to Privatisation NLC and TUC Must Organise Solidarity Actions to Support Them The struggle against privatisation was stepped up on Monday 25th October, 2010 when about 1,500 electricity workers, labour and human right activists under the auspices of Joint Action Forum (JAF) and the

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2011 GENERAL ELECTIONS:

2011 GENERAL ELECTIONS: Will It Be Different From the Widely Acknowledged Farce Called 2007 Elections? Both Prof. Attahiru Jega, the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) Chairman and President Goodluck Jonathan have repeatedly continued to make pledges that the 2011 general elections will be truly free and fair. Even the advanced capitalist countries, the principal beneficiaries of the iniquitous capitalist system

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THREE-DAY WARNING STRIKE ON MINIMUM WAGE

THREE-DAY WARNING STRIKE ON MINIMUM WAGE Labour Must Build Strike/Action Committees at National, State, Industrial and Community Levels! Mass Demonstration and Rallies Must be Organised Across the Country! The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) wholeheartedly welcomes the decision of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) to embark on a 3-day warning strike between November 10 and 12,

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KEEP PHCN PUBLIC!

KEEP PHCN PUBLIC! Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) President Goodluck Jonathan recently launched a ‘Road map on power sector reform’, the aim of which is to privatize the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) – formerly National Electric Power Authority (NEPA). As a condition for this, the government has increased electricity tariff from about N4. 00 per

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Warning Strike on New Minimum Wage Demand is Welcome

Warning Strike on New Minimum Wage Demand is Welcome Labour Should Begin Mass Mobilization Immediately DSM Statement The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) wholeheartedly welcomes the notice of warning strike the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has given to the government should it not initiate the process of implementation of the new minimum wage by November 9, 2010. The 3-day strike is

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ELECTRICITY WORKERS STEP UP FIGHT AGAINST PRIVATISATION OF POWER SECTOR

ELECTRICITY WORKERS STEP UP FIGHT AGAINST PRIVATISATION OF POWER SECTOR NLC AND TUC MUST ORGANISE SOLIDARITY ACTIONS TO BACK THEM By Chinedu Bosah The struggle against privatisation and other neo-liberal policies in Nigeria was stepped up on Monday 25th October, 2010 when electricity workers, labour and human right activists under the auspices of Joint Action Forum (JAF) and the National

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ANOTHER ROUND OF EDUCATION WORKERS’ STRIKE

ANOTHER ROUND OF EDUCATION WORKERS’ STRIKE Only Joint Struggle of Workers, Students and Parents Can Win University workers’ Unions have started a rolling action of strikes across Universities owned by the State governments. At the last count, more than 10 Universities are on strike action. They are Abia State University (ABSU), Anambra State University, Ebonyi State University, Enugu State University

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LAGOS STATE DOCTORS’ STRIKE: Fashola Must Meet Their Demands Now!

LAGOS STATE DOCTORS’ STRIKE: Fashola Must Meet Their Demands Now! Medical doctors working in various public hospitals in Lagos State have been on strike now for the past nine weeks. The situation has paralyzed health care delivery in all the public hospitals in the State with dire consequences for Lagosians. WHY DOCTORS ARE ON STRIKE Doctors in Lagos State have

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KEEP PHCN PUBLIC!

KEEP PHCN PUBLIC! Under Democratic Control and Management of Workers and Consumers No to Privatisation!! No to N18 pkwh Hike of Electricity Tariff!! Workers, artisans, traders, youths and all consumers must fight back now! The anti-poor government of President Goodluck Jonathan has contrived another means to convert the collective patrimony of Nigerians into a profit-making venture of businessmen and corrupt

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SEASON OF STRUGGLE AS WORKERS FIGHTBACK AGAINST NEO-LIBERAL ATTACKS

SEASON OF STRUGGLE AS WORKERS FIGHTBACK AGAINST NEO-LIBERAL ATTACKS NLC and TUC Must Build a Mass Working Class Political Alternative to Take Political Power All over the country, workers, youths, students and poor masses are being confronted with brutal neo-liberal attacks against their living and working conditions. These attacks range from privatisation of public enterprises, deregulation of the oil sector,

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EDUCATION WORKERS’ STRIKE REVS UP

EDUCATION WORKERS’ STRIKE REVS UP Mass Rallies and Demonstrations in Lagos H.T Soweto. As the strike of education workers in State Tertiary Institutions in Lagos State (in the South East, the strike is going to about three months now) entered its third week, the striking unions have stepped up action. The strike is for implementation of the 2009 Federal Government-ASUU

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ABUJA BOMB BLAST AND TERRORISM

ABUJA BOMB BLAST AND TERRORISM A WORKING CLASS SOLUTION IS THE WAY OUT! DSM Statement, October 8, 2010 As the ruling elite celebrates Nigeria’s 50th anniversary what has dominated public discourse and attracted global attention were two car bomb blasts in Abuja, for which the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) claimed responsibility. Despite the earlier notice of

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ANOTHER ROUND OF UNIVERSITY WORKERS’ STRIKE

ANOTHER ROUND OF UNIVERSITY WORKERS’ STRIKE Only Joint Struggle of Workers, Students and Parents Can Guarantee Victory Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) hereby solidarises with striking education workers who are demanding that the State governments implement an agreement signed with the unions by the Federal government in 2009. We believe the demands of

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Continued Attack on Democratic Rights in Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife: A Call for Inter

Continued Attack on Democratic Rights in Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife: A Call for Intervention Security man destroying DSM secretariat Press Statement Lawal Orsh, Secretary General, DSM Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife Branch The secretariat of Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile-Ife Chapter was destroyed by security men on 5th October, 2010 on the directive of the

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50 years’ independence

50 years’ independence “The fault lies not in our stars but in the circumstances and system we operate” DSM holds Symposium to mark Nigeria @ 50 On Friday October 1st 2010, Nigeria marked its 50 years of existence as an independent Nation. Nigeria had “won” its independence from British colonial rule on October 1st 1960. The independence, which was a

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CDWR CONDEMNS LAGOS STATE GOVT. INSENSITIVITY TO DOCTORS DEMANDS

Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights CDWR CONDEMNS LAGOS STATE GOVT. INSENSITIVITY TO DOCTORS DEMANDS MEET MEDICAL DOCTORS DEMANDS TO END THE STRIKE! The medical doctors in Lagos state have embarked on an indefinite strike again due to the refusal by the Lagos State Government to pay Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS) as agreed last year. We see no justification

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