For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
Press Statement Osun State Government Should Pay Retirees The Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights (CDWR) Osun State Chapter calls on the government of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun State to immediately commence the full payment of outstanding pension and pension arrears of retirees in the state. Currently, some sections of the retirees have been processed without being paid a
Education Rights Campaign (ERC) Press Statement LABARAN MAKU’S SCAREMONGERING ON ASUU STRIKE: GOVT CAN SHUT DOWN IF IT MUST; IT WOULD BE GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH On 4th September, 2013, the Minister of information Mr. Labaran Maku, in an attempt to give the false impression that the 2009 ASUU/FGN agreement is not implementable, declared that government activities could shut
2015 GENERAL ELECTIONS AND THE WORKING MASSES Segun Sango, DSM General Secretary Under the timetable of Nigeria’s current constitution, the working and suffering masses may have to endure the country’s rulers at central and state levels until the next general elections which unfortunately are still some twenty months away! But so huge is the level of economic and political failure
Socialist Party of Nigeria PRESS STATEMENT NLC NEC Communiqué: Labour Must Go Beyond Scratching the Surface NLC, TUC Should Mobilise for 48-hour Strike on Minimum Wage and in Support of ASUU Struggle The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) welcomes the recent decision of the National Executive Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to take up some issues affecting the
RE: ASUU officials in street brawl with Socialist Party Rejoinder to Daily Trust fabrication We write in response to a news article published on Wednesday 28 August 2013 in the Daily Trust newspaper. It was written by Eyo Charles, a Daily Trust correspondent in Calabar. In the report, the journalist alleged that “leaders of the Academic Staff Union of Universities
Report of 2013 CWI Summer School: Building Marxist forces In an Era of Global Capitalist Decay By Kola Ibrahim This year’s CWI Summer School has come and gone, but the tremendous effects it has on the consciousness, understanding and comradely feeling of participants will stay for a very long time. Just like others before it, the 2013 Summer School offered
JAF CALABAR RALLY: WORKERS AND YOUTH TAKE A FURTHER STEP IN THE STRUGGLE TO SAVE EDUCATION. Socialist Party of Nigeria gains deeper echo despite right-wing attack By Ayo Ademiluyi and Onwunalu Alexander JAF Calabar August 27 – photo DSM With more than one hundred people in attendance, including workers drawn from Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Academic Staff Union
Education Rights Campaign Press Statement FG and ASUU’s NEGOTIATION: Mass Struggle Needed to Break The Deadlock! We Warn Government Not To Attempt To Break The Strike We Call on ASUU To Name a Day for Nationwide Mass Protest and Demonstration From all indications, negotiations between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have broken down. Instead
ASUU STRIKE IS TO SAVE PUBLIC EDUCATION! SUPPORT THE STRIKE! DON’T BREAK IT! WE URGE ASUU TO TAKE THE STRUGGLE TO THE NEXT LEVEL BY NAMING A DAY FOR NATIONWIDE MASS ACTION Education Rights Campaign (ERC) statement No doubt, there is urgent need for us to act now to save Nigeria’s education sector from a total collapse! It will interest
South Africa One year after the Marikana massacre Both capitalists and working class prepare for unforeseen turmoil Liv Shange, DSM (CWI South Africa) On August 16, 2012, at Marikana, a bloody line was drawn in South Africa’s political sand when police in cold blood shot dead 34 workers and wounded 78. The few seconds of the massacre that were shown
Egypt: Hundreds dead as military tries to consolidate power in blood Increasing sectarianism threatens revolution’s future – Workers’ independent action urgently needed Robert Bechert, Committee for a Workers’ international CWI Millions across the world, and especially in the Middle East, have been shocked by the killing of hundreds of mainly unarmed people in the Egyptian military’s brutal clearance of the
ASUU STRIKE UPDATE: JAF, ASUU and NANS Zone D Lead Protest against Education Underfunding ASUU Should Name a Day of National Protest as Next Stage of the Struggle Chinedu Agbebire JAF banner – photo DSM The national “Save Public Education” protest organized by the Joint Action Front (JAF) had its kick-off on Tuesday 13th of August 2013 in Lagos. The
Socialist Party of Nigeria PRESS STATEMENT ASUU STRIKE: ASUU and Trade Unions Must Mobilise for a Day of Mass Protest The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) fully supports ASUU in its ongoing industrial strike in defence of public education at university level. For a country stupendously rich in human and material resources the current state of public education is abnormally
Press Statement SPN Condemns the Proposed Removal of Minimum Wage from Exclusive List Senate Action is a Wake-up Call on the NLC and TUC to fight more Resolutely to Defend Workers Living Standards NLC and TUC Must Call an Immediate 48-hour General Strike/Mass Protest Now! The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) condemns in absolute terms the anti-poor decision by the
Egypt: State crackdown against Muslim Brotherhood leaves over 80 dead Bloody repression can be turned against striking workers and youth Niall Mulholland, from The Socialist, weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales) The Egyptian state’s bloody crackdown against Muslim Brotherhood supporters continues, leaving hundreds dead and injured. At least 83 died during last Saturday’s police massacre of
Tunisia Mass explosion of anger at second political killing of a left leader Leaflet of CWI supporters calls for general strike to bring down the government Supporters of the CWI in Tunisia The assassination of Mohamed Brahmi, MP for El Shaab (People’s Movement), has triggered a new mass movement of workers and youth in Tunisia. Under mass pressure, the main
Strikes in the Education Sector: Need for Unity of Education Workers and Students in Struggle Reports of ERC solidarity activities to back on-going ASUU strike By Hassan Taiwo Soweto ERC National Coordinator ERC Protest March at University of Lagos – photo DSM Over the last three months, the education sector has been racked by one disruption after another. It is
Congo: A history of capitalist looting Since 1997, wars have claimed six million lives in the Congo, where life expectancy is 46 years. Yet this horrific situation receives little media attention in the west. Per-Ĺke Westerlund, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden), first published in Socialism Today Per-Ĺke Westerlund reviews a book which lays a good foundation for a greater understanding of
Education Rights Campaign SUPPORT THE STRIKE! DON’T BREAK IT University Lecturers and Students United in the Struggle to Fight Neglect of Public Education! Great Nigerian students, there is urgent need for us to act now to save Nigeria’s education sector from a total collapse! It will interest us to know that between 2000 and 2011, Nigeria government earned N48.48 trillion
Egypt Polarisation grows – No trust in the generals Robert Bechert, Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) The stormy and bloody developments since the removal and arrest of President Morsi by the military mark a new, challenging and dangerous stage in the unfolding Egyptian revolution. Despite the huge, unprecedented mass mobilisation against Morsi the absence of an independent, socialist based