August 2024. Nigerians took to the streets under #EndBadGovernance, demanding a reversal of subsidy removal, affordable food, fair wages, and an end to insecurity. The Tinubu government answered with repression: comrades arrested, detained, beaten, and dragged into a treason trial that stretched over a...
The left, with its basically socialist ideology, has been historically and consistently on the side of the labour movement, in its widest sense, in Nigeria since the colonial period.
By Femi Falana.
Since the days of the struggles against colonialism workers and their leaders have always been interested in the question of political power. Generations of the broad left have nursed the consciousness that the problems in the political economy, as they affect the working people, cannot be fundamentally solved if workers are indifferent to the fundamental question: who “authoritatively” allocates resources and in whose interest? Who defines what is development?