August 2024. Nigerians took to the streets under #EndBadGovernance, demanding a reversal of subsidy removal, affordable food, fair wages, and an end to insecurity. The Tinubu government answered with repression: comrades arrested, detained, beaten, and dragged into a treason trial that stretched over a...
August 2024. Nigerians took to the streets under #EndBadGovernance, demanding a reversal of subsidy removal, affordable food, fair wages, and an end to insecurity....
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.
August 2024. Nigerians took to the streets under #EndBadGovernance, demanding a reversal of subsidy removal, affordable food, fair wages, and an end to insecurity. The Tinubu government answered with repression: comrades arrested, detained, beaten, and dragged into a treason trial that stretched over a...
Mass struggles across the federation in the late 1970’s forced the military regime of General Olusegun Obasanjo to lift the ban on politics and outline a time table for the return of civilian rule. A struggle of critical mass was the Ali Mon Go...
The issue of the possibly fraudulent Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council is just one more example of the massive level of looting across government....
The issue of the possibly fraudulent Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council is just one more example of the massive level of looting across government. Others are the ₦210 trillion unaccounted funds in the NNPC audits and the $13 billion Coastal Highway contract given to...
Four days after the events and after a thorough analysis, Comunistas reveals its official position on the protests that took place in Cuba last Sunday, 11 July.
The Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) and the Academic Staff Union Polytechnic (ASUP) show the way to win strikes
By Femi Falana(SAN) - I was in Benin last Saturday to participate in the public lecture organised by the Nigerian Youth Democratic Party. I returned to Lagos later in the evening....
Edwin Madunagu’s life story is an exemplification of the multiculturalism that a pluralistic society like Nigeria represents. Possibly this is responsible for the metropolitan socialist world outlook that he adopted from early in his life.
Thomas Sankara’s project of transformation was dramatically uneven. With his comrades, Sankara attempted to push through radical reforms. With his personal incorruptibility and deep commitment to transforming Burkina Faso’s diabolical underdevelopment, he remained an intransigent figure of opposition to the emergence of neoliberalism, privatisation and the marginalisation of Africa. Sankara understood that the African common people had to find their own way to development.
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.
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,...