Determinants of Women’s Empowerment in Ibadan Metropolis
Sunday K. Alonge, 2004
The empowerment of women is seen as the panacea for social ills, high population growth rate, environmental degradation and the low status of women, amongst others. In this study about 500 ever-married women aged 15 to 49 years were interviewed on the determinants of their empowerment. Nearly 90% of...
How to Fight for Internationalism as People Become Sickened by The Nationalist Delirium.
Rotimi Agboluaje, Ibadan
Human rights lawyers and activists, including Femi Falana, Femi Aborisade, Prof. Omotoye Olorode, Jaye Gaskiya faulted the call for restructuring along ethnic lines.
They spoke at the Political Education Forum organized by the Oyo State chapter of the Alliance on Surviving COVID-19 and Beyond (ASCAB) which took...
Socialists and Nationalism
Chris Harman (1992), a British socialist who died in 2009
The left cannot fulfil its responsibilities unless it is clear on the relation between nation and class. Its starting point has to be a clear understanding that nationalism is about the organisation of capitalist society. On this Kautsky and Lenin were absolutely right...
Insecurity – any solution without reducing inequality?
By Drew Povey
We face an increasing wave of insecurity – from Boko Haram in the north-east to cultists in the south-west, from bandits in Zamfara, farmer/herder disputes in the middle belt, with increasing burglaries and kidnapping everywhere.
It would be great if the government could come to our rescue...
THE REVOLUTIONARY POTENTIAL OF THE WORKING CLASS
Biodun Olamosu
The socio-economic and political situation in the recent period has gone from bad to worse for most people. This is characterised by lack of basic things of life - food, clothing, shelter, water, electricity, good roads. But also unemployment, social inequality, disease, illiteracy, poor funding of education and health care systems,...
Classes, Poverty and Failed Governance: the call for restructuring and the national question in Nigeria.
By Jaye Gaskia
The raising of the national question and the agitation for restructuring is crafted by the ruling class primarily and solely in ethnic terms. Hence when they ask for restructuring, they are asking for ethnic restructuring; and when they talk about to regionalism, they are talking about ethnic regionalism. Thus, the...
The Government is Weak – now is the time for ASUU, health workers, others to win!
Alex Batubo
The attempts to close down the panels of enquiry into police brutality are the just the latest indicator of how weak the Buhari government has become. The police went to court claiming that the panels were unconstitutional. Within a few days, widespread opposition to this move, led to the police case...
Alhaji Balarabe Musa (ABM) – Adieu!
By Femi Aborisade
Adieu, ABM, as we fondly called him in the left circles in the late 1970s.
ABM was the first elected Governor of Kaduna State. He was sworn into office in October 1979 and was impeached on 23 August 1981. ABM told me that the members of the...
Addressing The Dangerous Myth of ‘Leaderless’ And So-Called ‘Classless’ Revolution
BY JAIYE GASKIA
The #EndSARS protest movement has raised issues around the phenomenon of leaderless movements and leaderless revolutions and even so-called classless revolution.
The concept of leaderless movements is alien to socialism, and so is the concept of so-called leaderless revolution. It is not only alien to socialism, it...
Socialist Bulletin December 2020 issue
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