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SOCIALIST PARTY OF NIGERIA (SPN) NEC MEMBERS ELECTED AT INAUGURAL CONVENTION HELD ON SATURDAY 16 NOV 2013 SPN email: [email protected] SOCIALIST PARTY OF NIGERIA (SPN) NEC MEMBERS ELECTED AT INAUGURAL CONVENTION HELD ON SATURDAY 16 NOV 2013 NAME STATE ZONE POSITION Segun Sango Osun SouthWest National Chairperson Chinedu Bosah Delta SouthSouth National Secretary Zira Nuhu Adamawa NorthEast Deputy National Chairperson
A Political Party of the Working Class is Born Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) Holds Inaugural Convention By Hassan Taiwo Soweto, National Youth Leader, SPN Segun Sango SPN National Chairperson, photo Uche Uwadinachi, member DSM “Today we are beginning a new chapter in the history of Nigeria; a chapter that will be dominated by the political struggle of the working
Education Rights Campaign (ERC) Press Statement ERC Mourns Professor Festus Iyayi! A Tragic Loss to the Struggle for Revitalisation of the Public University System It was with shock that the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) received the news of the death of Professor Festus Iyayi in a road accident yesterday involving the accident-prone convoy of the Kogi State Governor Idris Wada.
Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) CALL FOR SOLIDARITY DURA PACK WORKERS STRUGGLE FOR UNION RIGHT AND BETTER WORKING CONDITION MANAGEMENT THREATENS TO CLOSE FACTORY By Chinedu Bosah Publicity Secretary, CDWR Durapack workers savouring air of liberation on Oct 7, photo dsm Since October 11, the workers of Dura Pack, Lagos, have been on indefinite strike over their demands
JAF SOLIDARISES WITH DURA PACK WORKERS AS THEY CONTINUE PROTEST AGAINST SLAVE LABOUR By Chinedu Bosah DURA PACK workers displaying placards highlighting their plights and demands, photo DSM On October 25, 2013, which was the 19th day since workers of Dura Pack Industries had begun the struggle to demand their rights to belong to a union of their choice, as
ERC HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE TO CALL ON GOVERNMENT TO MEET ASUU AND ASUP DEMANDS Report by Kayode Salako and Lamide Adabale HT Soweto addressing the press, photo DSM As the indefinite strikes of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) roars on, the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) held a media conference on
ASUU STRIKE: ERC Lobbies Trade Unions to Declare a Day of Solidarity Strike By Kayode Salako with banner, photo by DSM Members of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) and other layers of student activists embarked on a lobby action on 24th October, 2013. The lobby action was primarily meant to put pressure on the NUT, NUEE, and NUPENG to actually
ASUU STRIKE: OAU ASUU CHAPTER HOLDS PROTEST RALLY By Wole Olubanji (Engels) ERC National Mobilisation Officer Jonathan don’t kill education, photo by Yomi Amoo On 21st October, 2013, the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Chapter of ASUU organised a protest rally to sensitise the public on the crisis rocking the education sector and the lingering ASUU strike. This is part
Education Rights Campaign PRESS STATEMENT ERC CONDEMNS CLAMPDOWN ON ASUU PROTESTS BY POLICE No to Attack on Democratic Right to Protest Bad Policies We Urge ASUU to Take the Struggle to the Next Level by Naming a Day of Nationwide Mass Protest The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) welcomes the decision of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to engage
Education Rights Campaign Press Statement ERC Condemns Police Attacks on Protesting Primary School Pupils in Makurdi Sack the Benue State CP Now NANS Has a Lot to learn From Benue Primary School Pupils The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) condemns in strong terms the atrocious brutality meted by Police on protesting Primary School Pupils in Makurdi, Benue State, on Thursday 24
Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights Oyo State Chapter 27th October, 2013 PRESS STATEMENT THE LINGERING CRISIS AT COCOA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF NIGERIA (CRIN): Proscription of workers unions is an infringement on workers democratic right; NLC and TUC Solidarity support is needed urgently! The Oyo State Chapter of the Campaign for Democratic Workers Right (CDWR) condemns the despotic tendency recently
Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) DURA PACK WORKERS CONTINUE STRUGGLE FOR UNIONISATION AND DECENT WORK SOLIDARITY ACTIONS BY TRADE UNIONS AND PRO-LABOUR ORGANISATIONS URGENTLY NEEDED! Since October 11, the workers of Dura Pack, Lagos, have been on indefinite strike over the demand for unionization and improved working conditions. The action actually started on October 7 when the mass
Socialist Party of Nigeria Press Statement Stella Oduah’s N225m Armoured Cars: The Aviation Sector should be put under a democratic workers control! The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) decries the insensitive purchase of two bulletproof vehicles worth an outrageously whopping sum of $1.6m (N255m) for the Ms. Stella Oduah, the Minister of Aviation by Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) against
Education Rights Campaign PRESS STATEMENT ASUU STRIKE: WE WELCOME THE NUT, NUPENG AND NUEE’s DECISION TO CALL SOLIDARITY STRIKE We Urge the Three Unions to Name a Day for the Solidarity Strike Actions The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) fully welcomes the decision of three trade unions – the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), the National Union of Petroleum and Natural
Education Rights Campaign Press Statement RELIGIOUS DEGENERATION OF OSUN SCHOOLS’ MERGER CONTROVERSY: ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE FAILURE OF THE POLICY ERC Calls on the Osun State Government to Reverse the Policy Immediately ERC Stands Against Religious Division But for A United Campaign to Resist School Mergers The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) hereby calls on the Osun State Government to immediately
TRADE UNIONS HOLD RALLY AGAINST PRECARIOUS WORK CDWR CALLS ON UNIONS TO CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE AGAINST ANTI-LABOUR PRACTICES By Michael Ogundele Rally against precarious work: protest march hits the street, photo DSM The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) and Joint Action Front (JAF) joined some trade unions in a mass Lagos rally on October 7 to campaign against
Activists Arrested at Osun Public Meeting Intimidation Attempt Fails Sunday, 13th October, saw an attempt, detailed below, by Aregbesola’s APC Osun State government to stifle opposition. Two activists were arrested, at gun point, at a public meeting! After protests the two activists arrested were eventually released. However their arrest at a Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) public meeting
DSM 21st Congress Holds Discussions Centred on Perspectives for Building a Working Class Political Alternative H.T Soweto From both a political and organisational point of view, the Congress of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) held on Saturday 5 to Sunday 6 October 2013 was a great success. About 80 delegates and observers representing 17 branches attended the Congress. Comrades at
NIGERIA: Capitalist Crisis and the Socialist Alternative Resolution on Nigeria Situation: DSM 21st Congress 2013 Segun Sango leading the discussion on Nigerian situation, DSM congress 2013, photo DSM Nigeria is caught up at a cross-road: between the road to revolutionary change and that of ethno-religious conflagration. In the present and coming period, the task of socialists is to campaign consistently
Document on World Relations DSM 21st Congress resolution Global capitalism is in its worst crisis since the 1930s with every nook and cranny – on the basis of the greatest ever integration of the world into capitalist orbit – feeling the pinch of the crisis. The few countries which have enjoyed growth, like China and Brazil, are no longer confident