Abadom Lawrence Amechi
Workers have long suffered under the weight of poor governance, corruption, and money grabbing from those in power. The past three years under President Ahmed Bola Tinubu have been particularly tough.
The president came prepared to unleash the anti-masses programme of the Bretton...
Drew Povey
The World Bank accepts that social support is needed, at least for the very poor, with the introduction its free market neoliberal reforms. The World Bank has congratulated the Tinubu administration for ending fuel subsidy and allowing the exchange rate for the naira...
Politics is therefore the conflict in the struggle in which the haves not only want to keep but to increase what they have while the have-nots want to survive.
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?
The following paper was recently presented, in early March 2022, at the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) “Workers Political Conference” by Professor Yusufu Ali Zoaka, the Lead Paper Presenter. As an academic and trade unionist, Prof Zoaka identifies the first of the main impediments against political engagement by trade emancipation as unity among the labour forces, the numerous socialist groups and civil society groups. He concludes by calling on the working people to close ranks under the leadership of the NLC to lead all into a more prosperous society that should promote equity, justice and fair play for all.