SOCIALIST BULLETIN NOVEMBER 2023
The poor majority have suffered major attacks on their living standards in the last few months. The price of petrol tripled, transport costs...
Resolute Action Needed from the NLC/TUC As Government Reneges on its Promise!
Half Way Through the NLC/TUCs 30 day suspension of its strike the Federal Government appears to have reneged on its promise to...
Trade Unions in the States will have to fight to Win Pay Increases
In January, 2023, workers in Federal Government budget funded bodies were given a 40% pay increase. As a result of the agreement...
CAC TRADE UNION WINS DISMISSAL OF DICTATORIAL REGISTRAR-GENERAL
‘CAC SHALL RISE AGAIN’
A WHISTLE BLOWING ACCOUNT OF THE TENURE OF A.G. ABUBAKAR,...
Join Socialist Labour if You Are Angry About NLC/TUC’s Failure to Strike
We waited four months for the NLC/TUC to act. And then they called off their promised indefinite general strike for a few...
Workers Struggles And The General Strike Of 1963; By Izielen Agbon
“Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have...
Niger: a time of uncertainty
PAUL MARTIAL
The July 26 coup in Niger came as a surprise. No one had seen it coming either...
Culture and Liberation
Culture is important for our liberation. The following two articles by supporters of Socialist Labour consider two aspects of our common culture. ...
Mobilisation for an Active General Strike is Essential
In the last year, the working-class in Nigeria have suffered a series of major setbacks. It is essential that these defeats are...
NLC and TUC Need to Change Strategy – lessons from the last decade –...
The strategy of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) over the last decade or so has included extended negotiations, limited strike threats and generally calling off strikes at the last moment. The assumption appears to have been that we have decent governments that only occasionally need reminding to do the right thing. In fact we have corrupt governments that only work to further enrich themselves and their elite friends. They rarely, if ever, actually implement any agreements that they have signed with the trade unions.