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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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FOR VICTORY – FIGHTING UNITY OF PROTESTORS LECTURERS OTHER STRIKING WORKERS

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We are socialists and Marxists

We are socialists and MarxistsThe economic, environmental and Covid-19 crises have made clear that capitalism is aconflict between two classes: the vast majority who create the wealth, and a tiny minoritywho profit from it. Attempts to reform capitalism have failed: the only solution is toreplace it with a truly democratic socialist society. Capitalist rulers will only give...