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OAU STUDENTS FACING MOUNTING ATTACKS AFTER UNION PROSCRIPTION Students Must Support Action Committee To Organise and Lead Imminent Fight Back By Micheal Lenin The attacks on the students of Obafemi Awolowo University have increased ever since the Professor Ogunbodede-led administration suspended the Students’ Union of the institution. It was the bold attempt by Great Ife students to rescue their union
LASU STUDENTS UNION ELECTION: Management and Electoral Commission Must Respect the Order of Electoral Tribunal For Independent Students Unionism Without Management’s Interference By Wole Olubanji National Mobilisation Officer, ERC The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) condemns the role of management of the Lagos State University (LASU) in the last elections of the Lagos State University Students Union (LASUSU) and subsequently after.
LASPOTECH WORKERS IN STRUGGLE AGAINST ATTACKS ON PAYS AND CONDITIONS By H.T. Soweto Ten union leaders of three staff unions (ASUP, NASU and SSANIP) of Lagos State Polytechnic were arrested and detained on April 15 by police following trumped up allegation by the Rector of the polytechnic. They were later arraigned at the Magistrate Court on April 17 which granted
DANGOTE TRUCK OFFICERS AND ENL DOCKWORKERS CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE FOR EARNED ENTITLEMENTS By Chinedu Bosah It is now over two years since Dangote Truck Officers and the ENL Dockworkers have been in court to press for their earned allowances and entitlements. The judiciary, they say is the last hope of the common man but from experience, it is a nightmare
TASCE AND OGUN WORKERS: Ogun Government Must Pay all Salary Arrears of TASCE Workers Reinstate Former NLC Chair, Ambali and Meet Demands of Ogun Workers By Eko John Nicholas The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) Ogun chapter, calls on the Senator Ibikunle Amosun-led APC/APM government to stop the current subterfuge, vacillations and arm-twisting in regards to the 30
OBNOXIOUS TAX-POLICY IN ABUJA: Working Masses Must Fight for Better Conditions By Oladimeji Macaulay The last general elections offered members of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) the opportunity to speak to many residents of Abuja at the area councils and it was clear that their biggest worry is the unfair tax policy in the face of government failure to
CALL FOR PARTY DE-REGISTRATION: An Elitist Conspiracy Against Working People and Democratic Rights By Wole Olubanji Engels The 2019 general election left several issues in its trail. Nigerian politicians perfected the art of vote-buying and fomented violence to force cancellation of votes where they had little assurances of victory; INEC embarrassed the country, shifted polls in the dead of the
RESTRUCTURING: Can it resolve Nigeria’s Social, Economic and Political Problems? By Kola Ibrahim No doubts Nigeria is in a deep crisis and many different recipes are being put forward to get out of it, one of the most frequently heard is “restructuring”. Now restructuring means different things to different people based on interests. However, there are some common terms that
REJECT RENEWAL OF POWER SECTOR LICENSE Demand Renationalisation of the Sector Under Democratic Control By Fidel Davynovic The federal government is set to review the licenses of the power companies (GENCOs and DISCOs) this year after it is due for renewal. In line with the neo-liberal agenda, it is most likely that the government will renew the licenses of the
SPN TAKES SOCIALIST PROGRAMMES TO NIGERIANS IN THE 2019 GENERAL ELECTIONS The Struggle to Mobilise Nigerians Around Socialist Change Continues By Bosah Chinedu For the first time in the history of Nigeria, a political party with socialist programmes participated in a general election. For years, the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) struggled and defeated the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
Socialist Democracy May – June 2019 Edition SIGNING OF N30,000 MINIMUM WAGE IS NOT AN END ON ITS OWN The leadership of NLC, TUC and ULC must be ready for a united and concerted struggle to force the full implementation without retrenchment of workers in public and private sectors By Abbey Trotsky After over three years the N18, 000 National
NUT MUST LEAD TEACHERS IN ACTION TO SAVE EDUCATION NOW Comrade Aj. Dagga Tolar (in personal capacity) in a chat with Socialist Democracy SD: HOW HAS EDUCATION FARED UNDER BUHARI? Dagga: Education is in a terrible state, the facts on the ground indicate nothing else but a disaster, with a population of 200 million, and we have the highest number
2019 May Day: DSM and SPN Put Working People Issues on the Front Burners at Rallies By Peluola Adewale, DSM NEC SPN members at Lagos May Day – photo DSM (Click to enlarge) This year’s May Day came a few weeks after the new minimum wage of N30, 000 had been signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari. So it
CWI May Day greetings to workers and the oppressed fighting against capitalism worldwide The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) sends revolutionary May Day greetings to all workers and oppressed people fighting against capitalism worldwide. We commemorate the struggles and sacrifices of past generations of fighters and martyrs in the struggles against bosses and dictators and for a socialist world.
Sudan: No to rule of the generals! CWI Reporter, from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party England & Wales) After 30 years of dictatorship in Sudan, historic mass protests have achieved the fall of President Omar Al-Bashir in a forced ‘palace coup’ by the generals. Following this, a ‘transitional military council’ was established, with defence minister Amhed Awad
Algeria: Bouteflika quits – No trust in the old elite and the generals! Power to the revolutionary workers and youth! Serge Jordan, CWI Bowing to weeks of mass protests and a deluge of workers’ strikes, Algeria’s senile and octogenarian President, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, resigned on Tuesday 2 April. This news has been received with huge enthusiasm and scenes of celebration on
Algeria: Bouteflika is finished but not yet the Algerian revolution! Amar Benhamouche, Gauche Revolutionnaire (CWI France) Bouteflika, the hated president of Algeria, is gone! But the Algerian people are by no means giving up their struggle. This is despite the way the regime is constantly taunting the demonstrators, trying to frighten them and spread false information to tarnish the image
OGUN PROTEST: DETERMINED WORKERS WIN CONCESSION By a DSM correspondent The national leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), made good the resolution of the 12th national delegates’ conference, held last February in Abuja, and embarked on a day’s protest on 5th March in Abeokuta to press home the demands of the Ogun state workers. This was in spite of
LASU STUDENTS’ UNION ELECTION: MANAGEMENT’S ACTIONS THREATEN THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE STUDENTS UNION The national leadership of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) is concerned about the unfortunate turn of events at the Lagos State University (LASU) over the conduct of the students’ union elections. The actions of the LASU management via the Division of Student Affairs (DSA) during and particularly
DEREGISTRATION OF POLITICAL PARTIES WHICH DID NOT WIN ANY ELECTIVE POST IS UNDEMOCRATIC SPN WILL RESIST UNDEMOCRATIC DEREGISTRATION OF POLITICAL PARTIES The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) is categorically opposed to the agenda of deregistration of political parties that did not win elective seats. This policy is undemocratic and negates the principle of multi-party ‘democracy’. We call on parties, the