The experience of the 2023 elections and the political developments that have followed make one point increasingly unavoidable: if Nigeria’s left, labour movement, and progressive forces remain divided, they will continue to struggle against entrenched elite dominance. The challenge is not simply about replacing...
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.
The experience of the 2023 elections and the political developments that have followed make one point increasingly unavoidable: if Nigeria’s left, labour movement, and progressive forces remain divided, they will continue to struggle against entrenched elite dominance. The challenge is not simply about replacing...
Tina Nkechi
The election season is upon us. Many politicians are making promises for what they may do if elected next year. In addition, we have just had May Day when the trade union leaders made a series of demands. All these promises and demands...
Drew Povey
The World Bank accepts that social support is needed, at least for the very poor, with the introduction its free market neoliberal reforms....
Drew Povey
The World Bank accepts that social support is needed, at least for the very poor, with the introduction its free market neoliberal reforms. The World Bank has congratulated the Tinubu administration for ending fuel subsidy and allowing the exchange rate for the naira...
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,...