For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
MASS STRUGGLE UNTIL ELECTRICITY TARIFF HIKE IS REVERSED! NLC and TUC Should Lead Sustained Mass Actions Until the Hike is Reversed and Pre-paid Meters Provided to All Consumers. Despite mass opposition to the tariff hike and subsisting order of the Federal High Court, the Distribution Companies (DISCOs) have gone ahead to implement the outrageous new tariff that will make consumers
DSM Welcomes NLC’s Rejection of Half-Salaries in Osun State Aregbesola government should pay full salaries without retrenchment We Call for an Immediate General Congress of Workers, and a 24-hour Warning Strike with Protest Rallies as a prelude to total strike We call for total recall of all sacked academic and non-academic staff of the state-owned polytechnics and colleges of education
Sack of Doctors in Osun State: Aregbesola Government has sunk to a new low DSM Supports doctors’ struggle in Osun State The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), Osun State Chapter, views the latest response of the Osun State government to the legitimate demands of the doctors under the employment of the state government as shameful and reactionary. It has again shown
Labour Holds Nationwide Protest against Electricity Tariff Hike More Work needs to be done to defeat the hike By Peluola Adewale A cross section of protesters in Lagos – photo DSM (Click to enlarge) On Monday February 8, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) held protest marches across the country against the latest hike in electricity
LINDA WORKERS EMBARKED ON PROTEST AGAIN OVER UNFAIR LABOUR PRACTICES WE DEMAND REINSTATEMENT OF SACKED UNION LEADERS AND AN END TO “27 POINT TARGET” The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) condemns the management of the Lagos based Linda Company, producer of Xpression weave-on for anti-workers’ policies and the sack of 10 union leaders for their role in defending
Africa – New political storms and mass struggles Opportunities will arise for working class and poor to organise CWI 11th World Congress Document The following document on sub-Saharan Africa was initially drafted in December 2015 and finalised after discussion and amendment at the Committee for a Workers’ International’s (CWI) 11th World Congress held in January 2016. The very successful week-long
Ethiopia Hunger and deadly repression Crisis for imperialism and a fight-back from below Per-Ä‚ke Westerlund, Rattvisepartiet Socialisterna (The DSM’s sister party in Sweden) Ethiopia has in recent years experienced perhaps the strongest economic growth in the world. The winners have been the dictatorial regime, its allies and multinational corporations. If a certain layer in society has an increased purchasing capacity,
Below is the content of the joint leaflet issued by the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) and the Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights (CDWR) massively circulated today, February 8, 2016, at the nationwide protests against electricity tariff hike organized by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. WE DEMAND IMMEDIATE REVERSAL OF THE TARIFF HIKE AND
BUHARI AND THE ANTI-CORRUPTION FIGHT Lagos DSM discusses the anti-corruption fight and the challenges for the working masses The Lagos State Chapter of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) held its first aggregate meeting of the year on 16 January, 2016. The meeting was a follow-up to the previous meeting held in December 2015. It was partly meant to continue the
Campaign for Registration of SPN Continues Demos held in 3 states and Abuja On Monday 25th January 2016, the legal action filed by the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) challenging the INEC decision not to register it came up again for mention at the Federal High Court Abuja Division. The case has now again being adjourned till 31st March 2016.
Pro-Biafra Protest again repressed DSM member, Comrade Chinedu Agbebire, who was at the protest in Aba Abia State, brings the following eye-witness account as well as comments on the movement’s strenght, limitations and the way forward. On January 18th, 2016, thousands trooped out in Aba Abia State, South East Nigeria, in answer to the call of the Indigenous People of
Buhari 2016 Budget: Not a Real Change By Peluola Adewale With Nigeria groaning under the dead weight of global capitalist crisis which is symptomized by the lowest oil price in 12 years, the 2016 budget appears to have arrived in coma.The oil price has plunged from $116 in July 2014 to less than $30 in January 2016. In addition, doomsday
LASIEC MUST OBEY THE COURT ORDER FOR THE CONDUCT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS IN LAGOS STATE We of the Lagos State Chapter of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) welcome the recent court judgment granted by the Lagos State High Court ordering the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) to conduct local government elections in Lagos State without delay. The
SPN Rejects Mass Sack of Staffs in Osun State Tertiary Institutions We call for reversal of this obnoxious policy Labour unions (ASUP, COEASU, NASU, CASUOSTI etc.), in conjunction with students and communities must organize mass actions to stop attacks on education The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN), Osun State Chapter, condemns in absolute terms the mass retrenchment of staff of
2016 BUDGET: EDUCATION SECTOR REMAINS UNDERFUNDED! Despite a background of Student leaders taking to the airwaves in an attempt to create bandwagon of applause for the 2016 budgetary allocation for the education sector, the allocation still remains lower than that of 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. These previous budgets were not also proportionate to the needs of the sector in
2016 BUDGET 2016 BUDGET: WORKING PEOPLE MUST PREPARE TO DEFEND THEIR LIVING CONDITIONS We of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) call on the mass of the working people to prepare to resist any attempt to make them pay for the current crisis of capitalism. We make this call based on the admissions of the President Muhammadu Buhari himself that
REDUCTION IN FUEL PRICE IS A GIMMICK AND INTRIGUE TO IMPOSE DEREGULATION The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) sees the reduction of petrol price from N87 to N86.50k as a mere gimmick and intrigue to deceitfully impose on the poor Nigerian working people the neo-liberal capitalist policy of deregulation of the downstream oil sector. The pump price reduction announced by
UNIABUJA: SYMPOSIUM EMPHASIZES NEED FOR STRUGGLE TO DEFEND PUBLIC EDUCATION “With this APC administration, if we are not careful, all of the gains of the 2013 ASUU struggle may go down the drain” – ASUU leader Report by Akande Daniel The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) and the Academic Staff Union of the Universities (ASUU), University of Abuja chapter, jointly organized
HIKE IN ELECTRICITY TARIFF IS ANTI-PEOPLE AND A FLAGRANT DISOBEDIENCE OF COURT ORDER NLC and TUC must lead sustained mass protest On December 8, 2015, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola addressed a press conference mandating the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and the Distribution companies to meet and come out with “fair market tariff”. Less than
NIGERIA’S MESS: CAN BUHARI CLEAN IT UP? Lagos DSM discusses the way forward for the working people in a period of capitalist crisis By Ayo Ademiluyi The Lagos State Chapter of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) held an end of year public meeting which brought together new contacts and supporters encountered in workplace interventions, students’ movement activities and community campaigns.