Both governments and the private sector have plenty of money. But we still need more action from the trade unions if we are to get our fair share. FAAC allocations to state and Federal governments this year have increased by almost 30% compared to...
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.
Both governments and the private sector have plenty of money. But we still need more action from the trade unions if we are to get our fair share. FAAC allocations to state and Federal governments this year have increased by almost 30% compared to...
The experience of the 2023 elections and the political developments that have followed make one point increasingly unavoidable: if Nigeria’s left, labour movement, and progressive forces remain divided, they will continue to struggle against entrenched elite dominance. The challenge is not simply about replacing...
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...
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...
Socialist Labour congratulates the doctors, members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), for their steadfastness and tenacity in maintaining their strike for over two months from 2nd August 2021.
The present moment is a very dicey one, characterised by systemic crisis, of such proportions that it seems to have engendered a situation of permanent crises – a crisis of rampant excruciating poverty, a crisis of rampaging endemic insecurity, and a crisis of near catastrophic degradation of human life; all of which pose an existential threat to the working peoples of our part of the world.
SAY NO TO CASUAL WORK! SAY NO TO CONTRACT WORK!!
SAY NO TO JOB AND PAY CUTS! SAY YES TO JUST JOBS!!
STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHT! ORGANISE AND JOIN A UNION!!
Every society is a reflection of the consciousness and dominant ideology of its citizens. It could be consciousness towards religion and spirituality or economic and socio-political well-being. Whichever is dominant and prevalent will be the determinant of the direction of progress for such society. Again; it is also pertinent to acknowledge that the philosophical and ideological current of every period work in tandem to shape the direction of the overall development of societies.
The doctors have vowed to continue their strike on the basis of an appeal and motion for stay of execution of the court ruling directing them to resume work.
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.