SOCIALIST BULLETIN, JANUARY 2021
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How do we organise to stop sexual harassment?
By Tina Ndi
Recent media cases have again reminded us of the issue of sexual harassment. In Ogun state, the Commissioner for Environment was suspended for the attempted rape of a 16-year-old girl. The Deeper Life High School saga in Akwa Bom State shows that this is not just a case of harassment...
Covid-19 Vaccination – What Should We Be Worried About?
An opinion by Drew Povey
The Covid-19 continues to hit the headlines and many people are now discussing vaccination against the pandemic. Several vaccines have now completed their medical trials and are being rolled out in a number of countries. Some people have raised fears about the safety of these vaccines and whether...
COMRADE HASSAN ADEBAYO SUNMONU: A LABOUR ICON IS 80 Part 1.
Comrade Salisu Nuhu Muhammad, the former Acting General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC).
Until his voluntary retirement from active trade unionism a few years ago, the pioneer president of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), had been the longest serving Secretary General of the Accra-based, Organization of African Trade Unions Unity (OATUU), the...
REIGN OF TYRANY AT THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION HEADQUARTERS ABUJA
Benjamin Anthony, President AUPCTRE
There has been serious crisis arising from the tyrannical operation of the Registrar General of the Corporate Affairs Commission, Alhaji Garba Abubakar, and his management team. As a result, there has been maladministration and workers struggle between the management and the workers’ trade union, the Amalgamated Union of Public...
2021: BUILDING THE RESISTANCE, RETAKING THE INITIATIVE, MARCHING TOWARDS A RADICAL POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE.
BY JAYE GASKIA
Towards the end of 2019, the regime at the Federal Level initiated a new practice of introducing to the National Assembly, along with the proposals for the 2020 Federal budget, a Finance Bill which addressed the revenue source to fund the 2020 budget. Both bills eventually became the 2020 Appropriation...
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...