PHOTOS SPEAK. Trade Union Protests in Every State – solidarity with education strikes
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), its member unions and others organise massive protests across the country in solidarity with the education strikes. The trade unions have yet again shown their ability to organise huge protests in all state capitals.
NLC Charter of Demands
We believe that the Charter provides an important set of demands. First, any politician who is asking for support from the millions of workers and other toiling people should be asked to accept the Charter as a basis for their manifesto.
WOMEN, POLITICS AND THE LAW
Nine Questions for Politicians about Women
What do you think should be done to reduce the incidence of maternal mortality in Nigeria from the current level of 814 women per 100,000 live birthsMaternal mortality can be reduced by increased access to maternal healthcare (that is, antenatal, natal and postnatal healthcare) mostly in...
Socialist Bulletin, July 2022
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TPAP-M, 2023, Labour, and actually existing “Labour Party”
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.
Socialist Bulletin June 2022
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Labour Party and the Left
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?
Them and Us – What is the Best Approach to Trade Union Activity?
The author Joe Burns says there are two different approaches to trade unionism. These are what he calls class struggle unionists and business unionists. This extract from his book explains these two terms. Socialist Labour supports the class struggle approach to trade unionism.
Seeing the payment of wages as theft leads class struggle unionists...
Violent government crackdowns increase insecurity across Nigeria, new report shows
By Yung Alhaji
Introduction
On April 13, a group of armed assailants reportedly raided the College of Health and Technology in Tsafe LGA, in Zamfara State, abducting several students, many of whom were women. This is only the latest in a seemingly unending string of kidnappings that have intensified in Northwest...