Benue at the Crossroads: Confronting State Failure and Economic Desperation
By Maxwell Adeyemi
For far too long, Benue State has witnessed gruesome killings that no successive administration—past or present—has...
Lenin Supported Strikes as the Seeds of Working Class Self-Emancipation
Drew Povey, Socialist Labour
The emancipation of the workers must be the act of the working class itself....
The megarich have already recovered from the pandemic. It may take the poor a...
OXFAM International, 25th January 2021
The 1,000 richest people on the planet recouped their COVID-19 losses within just...
ASUU Strikes, Resilience and Victory.
An inquiring minds would often ask why does ASUU Strike? What are the conflicting relations between the union and the government?
Unpicking Sankara’s elusive socialism
Thomas Sankara’s project of transformation was dramatically uneven. With his comrades, Sankara attempted to push through radical reforms. With his personal incorruptibility and deep commitment to transforming Burkina Faso’s diabolical underdevelopment, he remained an intransigent figure of opposition to the emergence of neoliberalism, privatisation and the marginalisation of Africa. Sankara understood that the African common people had to find their own way to development.
Hope is in our Collective Resistance – only Robust Strike Actions Can Ensure a...
The NLC in its end of year message, demanded the withdrawal of the tax reform bills and a minimum wage review -...
Climate Change – global and local impacts – time for change! (2021)
By Alex Batubo
We are reposting here an article originally written in 2021. The most recent international climate change...
Who Can’t Afford a Minimum wage of N30,000?
Some governors are claiming that their states cannot afford to pay the minimum wage of N30,000. So, for example, The Nation on...
Northwest Nigeria’s Bandit Problem: Explaining the conflict drivers (2022) – a review of the...
by Alex Batubo
Insecurity is a major problem that we all face, from theft, burglary to kidnapping and banditry. ...
Gambo Sawaba (1933-2001)
Gambo found oppression was unbearably revolting; hence she stoutly defended the rights of the weak. She did not accept wealth and shared every kobo of hers with the poor.