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EDUCATION STRIKES AND THE FIGHT FOR A LIVING WAGE

The recent strike by teachers and other education workers in the FCT exposed an uncomfortable truth: those who educate society are increasingly being forced to live in indignity. The strike was called over promotion disputes, career stagnation, and worsening conditions of service. The FCT-NLC...
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FUEL PRICES, WORKERS’ LIVES, AND THE POLITICS OF DECEPTION

By Maxwell Adeyemi More than two years after fuel subsidy removal, working people are still paying the price for a policy sold as economic salvation. Workers were told subsidy removal would free resources for development, strengthen public services, and improve living standards. Instead, transport costs...
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Sudan – The resistance committees: a revolution from below

By Hamad Gamal et Sarah Bachellerie Workers councils have developed at the highpoints of working...
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Cameroon: never ending Biya

Paul Biya has now been in power in Cameroon for over four decades. A record of longevity leaving the populations drained in a corrupt country in the grip of a dirty war in its English-speaking region.
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Stop the Repression in Chad

After the National Conference in September 2022, the Chadian opposition was drowned in blood...
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What are the Origins of Instability across the Sahel?

The destabilization of the Sahel is part of the crisis of the postcolonial states of the three countries Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger (but also northern Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Benin etc).
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The Enemy of Our Enemy May be Equally Our Enemy

The takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban raises issues for socialist internationalists.
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Thomas Sankara – Burkina Faso

A popular coup d’état led by Captain Thomas Sankara made him President of, what was then called Upper Volta on August 4, 1983. He was only 33 years old. Four years later he was assassinated.
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Elections in Benin and Chad then military coup in Chad shows Nigerian Government’s support for dictators across the region

The Buhari Government showed its support for dictators across the region during the general...
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How Can We Address ‘insecurity’ – do aerial bombardments have any role?

On 3rd January 2021, French planes bombed a gathering near Bounty, a remote village...
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Implications of Imperial Ambitions

By Simon Gilbert and Adrian Budd China’s rulers have, for the past four decades,...
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Big Pharma: saints or sinners?

By Luigi Hay Free-market ideologues claim that ‘Big Pharma’ has saved the day by its...
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The megarich have already recovered from the pandemic. It may take the poor a decade to do so

OXFAM International, 25th January 2021 The 1,000 richest people on the planet recouped their COVID-19...
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THE NEW DEMOCRAT ADMINISTRATION WILL NO DOUBT DECLARE A NEW ERA FOR FOREIGN RELATIONS BUT WHAT WILL IT ACTUALLY DELIVER?

Chris Nineham, Stop The War Coalition, UK Millions around the world will be celebrating the...
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EDUCATION STRIKES AND THE FIGHT FOR A LIVING WAGE

The recent strike by teachers and other education workers in the FCT exposed an...
NEWS

FUEL PRICES, WORKERS’ LIVES, AND THE POLITICS OF DECEPTION

By Maxwell Adeyemi More than two years after fuel subsidy removal, working people are still...
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The Struggle for a National Minimum Wage

By Izielen Agbon The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has proposed an upward review of the...
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SOCIALIST LABOUR STANDS WITH THE NLC FCT GENERAL STRIKE

Socialist Labour expresses its unwavering and solidarity with the teachers, workers, and trade unions...

We are socialists and Marxists The economic, environmental and Covid-19 crises have made clear that capitalism is a conflict between two classes: the vast majority who create the wealth, and a tiny minority who profit from it.Attempts to reform capitalism have failed: the only solution is to replace it with a truly democratic socialist society. Capitalist rulers will only give up power if forced to do so. We need a mass democratic movement to bring about socialism. Events, such as the Russian Revolution of 1917,January 2012 in Nigeria and the uprisings in Sudan and Algeria last year, show what is needed.

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