Review | Fight the Fire
By Janet Bujra -9 May 2021
Jonathan Neale’s new book calls for a global mass movement to confront the capitalist forces driving climate breakdown. Janet Bujra reviews ‘Fight the Fire’, describing the transformative power of writing that links analysis with real world action and what must be done to fight climate disaster. This review was originally published by the Review of...
A REVIEW OF “NEW NIGERIANS” BY OLADIPO AGBOLUAJE
Tokunbo Oke
The play “New Nigerians” is a timely, cynical satire about the state of Nigerian politics. In the uncanny way that art sometimes mirrors life, the current political situation in Nigeria is very much analogous to some of the issues dealt with in this play.
The main protagonist, Greatness...
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 elections in neighbouring Benin and Chad; and then the military coup in Chad. Fake elections in the Benin and Chad in April had nothing to do with freedom nor democracy. Yet these façades were given credence by the Nigerian government as the regional...
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 in the middle of Mali. Soon afterwards, local people claimed that a wedding party had been attacked with many civilian deaths. The French tried to claim that they had ‘neutralised’ some ‘terrorists’. After extensive research, the UN reported at the end of March...
Socialist Labour Bulletin, May 2021 Edition
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The case against privatization
Femi Aborisade
Privatization essentially refers to selling public bodies, public enterprises to private owners.
Economic and financial reasons are usually the formal reasons declared by governments for privatization. The current Government, for example, claims it will help to finance this year’s budget through proceeds from privatisation of some public assets which has been...
Pensioners plan nationwide protest for pension increment
Members of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners were planning to embark on a massive nationwide protest over the failure of the government to increase their pension.
Outgoing President of the NUP, Abel Afolayan, disclosed this in Abuja at the 11th quadrennial delegate conference of the union. He said his members would ground the Office...
Who Can’t Afford a Minimum wage of N30,000?
Some governors are claiming that their states cannot afford to pay the minimum wage of N30,000. So, for example, The Nation on Sunday, 18th April ran with the headline “States in panic mode as revenues tumble”. The problem is that this is just not true!
All states are now receiving massively higher incomes than...
SOCIALIST LABOUR EXPRESSES SOLIDARITY WITH STRIKING MEMBERS OF JUSUN AND PASAN
PRESS STATEMENT
Biodun Olamosu, National Secretary, Socialist Labour
Socialist Labour commits its full support and solidarity with the Judiciary and Parliamentary workers of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) and Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) during their current strike. We call on all our members and supporters to support...
Socialist Bulletin for March/April 2021
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