Mass struggles across the federation in the late 1970’s forced the military regime of General Olusegun Obasanjo to lift the ban on politics and outline a time table for the return of civilian rule. A struggle of critical mass was the Ali Mon Go...
The unfolding controversy surrounding the alleged fake Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) is a reflection of the pattern of misgovernance, personalization of leadership, corruption, and administrative impropriety that defined Bola Ahmed Tinubu led government for the past three years.
It is disgusting to note...
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?