For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
Iran Where now for the Iranian revolution? Working class must decisively enter struggle Tony Saunois, Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) Thirty years after the 1979 revolution Iran has again erupted in revolutionary convulsions as millions have taken to the streets to protest against the undoubted rigging of the Presidential election. Within a few hours of polls closing, President Mahmoud
JUNE 16 SOWETO MASSACRE ANNIVERSARY ARREST 4 ACTIVISTS REGAIN FREEDOM H.T Soweto, National Coordinator, Education Rights Campaign (ERC) Hassan Taiwo Soweto (National Coordinator, the Education Rights Campaign), Chinedu Bosah (National Secretary, Education Rights Campaign) Usman Oloyede (Former PRO, NANS Zone D) and Debo Adeniran (Chairman, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders) were released on bail today at the Sabo Police Station, Yaba
Police forcefully disperse youth and students’ rally commemorating the 16 June 1976 Soweto massacre in Lagos Release the arrested activists Now! Segun Sango, General secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) condemns the arrest of activists and education campaigners by the police today in front of Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, where they had gathered to take off
Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights in Nigeria 27 Soldiers Condemned to Life Imprisonment for Protesting Injustice and Stealing of UN Peace keeping Allowance CDWR calls for Solidarity for the Persecuted Soldiers When 850 soldiers were rounding off their participation at the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Liberia, none could have had the premonition that some of them were on
DSM Press Statement REVOCATION OF NITEL SALE TO TRANSCORP We call for Nationalization of NITEL under workers’ democratic control and management. Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement The revocation of the sale of the Nigeria Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) to the Transnational Corporation of Nigeria (Transcorp) by the Yar’Adua government underscores the failure of neo-liberal policy of privatisation of public
NIGER DELTA CRISIS Collective Action of the Working Class People of Nigeria Needed JTF must end the occupation now!! Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement The continued attacks by the Joint Task Force (JTF) on some communities in Delta State have claimed hundreds of innocent citizens while thousands others have been chased out of their homes. As we write,
US: Modern capitalism and the “Swine Flu” outbreak Disaster worsened by profit system Andy Moxley and Aleida Vilchez, Socialist Alternative (CWI in USA) Mexico hit by flu epidemic While the swine flu epidemic has not revealed itself to be a pandemic, at least not yet on the scale of the 1918 Spanish Flu, it has exposed the role of profit
LASCO Holds Rally in Asaba On Friday May 15, 2009, the Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO) organised a second protest-rally in Asaba, Delta state, South-South Nigeria, as part of its nationwide activities to mobilize Nigerian workers and poor to demand a new national minimum wage of N52, 200, a halt in the deregulation of the oil sector by government
Gaza: the nightmare continues New ‘peace talks’ will not lead to genuine Palestinian state Niall Mulholland, CWI Three months after Israel’s war against Gaza that killed nearly 1,400 people, 314 of them children, and wounded thousands, conditions in the strip remain appalling and are worsening rapidly. The UN estimates that over 4,000 houses were destroyed by the Israeli Defence Force’s
Deregulation, Minimum Wage: LASCO kicks off nationwide rallies in Lagos DSM on the demonstration After the rallies Labour Should Commence Mobilisation for 24-hr General strike and mass protest Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO) kicked off the planned series of nationwide rallies in Lagos yesterday May 13. The demands of the rallies which will also take place in other seven
Labour Protest rallies start Below is the text of the Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO) leaflet for the May 13 Lagos rally. LASCO is composed of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Trades Union Congress (TUC), Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), United Action for Democracy (UAD) and other organizations. Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO) calls on workers, artisans, transporters, market
South Africa ANC returned to power in landslide As class polarisation continues, black working class voters vest their hopes in Zuma …for now! Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa) On 22 April, in a record turnout that reversed falls in voter registration and polling in the two previous elections, 17.9 million voters — the highest number since
GLOBAL CAPITALIST CRISIS SPARKS PROTESTS AROUND THE WORLD Labour Flags Off Mass Protests in Nigeria By Peluola Adewale The rampaging global economic crisis has continued to hit hundreds of millions around the world as a wave of retrenchment, wage cuts and short-time working hits workers. In many countries workers are shocked and fearful of the future. Many have the hope
FEDERAL TEACHERS SCHEME: STRUGGLE RECORDS PARTIAL VICTORY IN LAGOS Others Appeal to Government for Employment The struggle embarked upon by teachers that participated in the Universal Basic Education (UBEC) initiated scheme in Lagos between October 2006 and October 2008 yielded partial victory as the Lagos State government employed 510 (46%) of the total 1,100 teachers on March 18, 2009. Before
DSM JOINS LABOUR PARTY IN OSUN STATE By Kola Ibrahim Members of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) in Osun State were officially welcomed to the Labour Party in Osun State by the state leadership of the party at a meeting on Sunday, April 19, 2009 at the Labour Party secretariat in Osogbo. The DSM in the state had earlier informed
Textile Workers and Others Protest Near Collapse of the Industrial Sector By Bosah Chinedu About 3,000 industrial workers from the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers (NUTGTWN) and National Union of Chemical, Foot, Rubber, Leather and Non-Metallic Product Employee (NUCFRLANMPE) on April 23 embarked on a mass and long protest procession in Lagos as part of a nationwide
EDO: Oshiomhole Policies and the Challenge for the Working Masses By Chinedu Bosah Edo State had for a long time been ruled by ruthless corrupt politicians and this is a big factor in its underdevelopment vis-Å•-vis the decay in the level of infrastructure. This explains why the people of Edo State overwhelmingly rejected Osariemeh Osunbor and his godfathers both in
Committee for a Workers’ International May Day 2009 Statement World Capitalism In Crisis We will not pay for the failure of the profit system! Get organized – Resist! For fighting unions and mass workers’ parties! For international solidarity and socialism! The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) sends warm May Day greetings to workers, youth and the oppressed everywhere. Socialists,
YAR’ADUA’S ELECTORAL REFORMS AND 2011 GENERAL ELECTIONS Segun Sango, DSM General Secretary The 2007 general elections were adjudged nationally and internationally, as the most farcical exercise ever conducted in the name of elections anywhere in the world. Thus faced with the crisis of legitimacy arising from what practically was no more than stolen mandate and, especially, the possibility of mass
FIGHT FOR A LIVING WAGE DSM statement The demand of Labour for a minimum wage of N52,200 is more than just. In fact, when a real survey of the basic needs of an average working class/family, (with respect to feeding, housing, healthcare, transportation, children education, telecommunications, electricity, etc), are taken into consideration, this is nothing but a very modest demand.