Thomas Sankara – Burkina Faso
A popular coup d’état led by Captain Thomas Sankara made him President of, what was then called Upper Volta on August 4, 1983. He was only 33 years old. Four years later he was assassinated.
NLC Kaduna State Strike, JUSUN, PASAN & ASUP Strikes, Fuel Price Increases and The Minimum Wage: The Way Forward
Members and supporters of Socialist Labour were impressed that the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) organised and implemented the general strike in Kaduna State. Socialist Labour commends the courage and sacrifices of the workers of Kaduna State,...
Judiciary Workers, Kaduna State Workers, Parliamentary Workers and Polytechnic Lecturers Need Our Solidarity
There are four vital strikes going on in Nigeria today. They are being organized by PASAN, JUSUN, ASUP and the NLC in Kaduna State. The success of these strikes has implications for beginning to address poverty, inequality, corruption and insecurity. But this is only the beginning, the depths of inequality mean that we have a massive fight...
Banks, Schools, Airport, Train Station, Electricity Shut In Kaduna As Labour Strike Begins.
Electricity supply, government schools and offices, banks, airport, train station have been totally shut in Kaduna as Labour, under the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) commenced a five-day warning strike in the state.
Workers, across the state and leadership of all the affiliate unions of NLC, are presently in Kaduna,...
IVA VALLEY BOOKS
IVA VALLEY BOOKS sells a good range of socialist, economics and environmental books (new and fairly used). We are on the 2nd Floor of Labour House (NLC Offices) in central Area- Abuja.
We are usually open from 9am to 4pm each weekday. We now also have a good selection of e-books which cost only...
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
The May edition of our monthly bulletin is available for download
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