Moving from Consumption to Production
Izielen Agbon
Nigeria is a consuming nation. We are not a producing nation. We export raw materials produced largely by foreign firms and import processed goods to meet most of our daily needs. This has been the foundation of our economy since the Europeans landed on our shores. The...
Tinubu is no friend of workers or their trade unions
The recent meeting of the presidents of the NLC and TUC with Bola Tinubu reinforces the mistaken impression that Tinubu is a friend of workers and their trade unions.Tinubu has, throughout his life consistently attacked workers and their organisations. In addition, the origins of his business empire suggest that he is extremely corrupt. His recent statement shows...
Sudan – The resistance committees: a revolution from below
By Hamad Gamal et Sarah Bachellerie
Workers councils have developed at the highpoints of working class struggle over the last 100 years or more. In Russia from 1905 they were termed soviets, in Iran in 1979 they were called shoras. In Sudan currently, they are called resistance committees. In each case they formed the...
Does Asking the Government to do More on Security Save Lives? – Alex Batubo
Some people are campaigning for the security forces to do more on security. We are facing increased insecurity, but will demanding more from the armed forces really reduce the number of people who are killed?
People have demanded that bandits, kidnappers and others be called ‘terrorists’ and so allow the army and others to...
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.
Socialist Bulletin December 2022
The December 2022 edition of socialist Bulletin is out for downloads.
Stop the Repression in Chad
After the National Conference in September 2022, the Chadian opposition was drowned in blood with over 50 killed, 300 injured and hundreds arrested according to the Government’s own figures. But Amnesty International reported 30 deaths in the southern town of Moundou alone.
Chadian armed forces have been used against the rebels in Mali and...
Non-payment of University Salaries is an Attack on Us All!!
An attack on one is an attack on us all!
What is Politics?
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.