Lenin Supported Strikes as the Seeds of Working Class Self-Emancipation
Drew Povey, Socialist Labour
The emancipation of the workers must be the act of the working class itself. (Lenin, 1995)
Following on from Marx and Engels, Lenin supported strikes and other forms of working class collective action. He saw these as the seeds of socialism. The confidence that strikes provided...
Socialist Bulletin, January 2024
The Plateau Massacre - A Dismal Sign Of Our Times
The sickening death of around 200 people in the villages of Plateau State is an awful sign of our times. Desperation stalks the land, the people are frantic for any way out of the terrible lives they live, mired in poverty, inequality and corruption....
IMOUDU AND KOKORI: THE TAIL OF TWO HEROES
By Biodun Olamosu
Written during the Easter period, April 1996, in Kaduna while on the run away from Kano where four people associated with the author were arrested and detained as they were told to produce him. The article was later published as a chapter of a book titled: Politics, Governance and Fighters for...
SOCIALIST BULLETIN DECEMBER 2023
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Student Loans – a Cruel Hoax in Place of Proper Funding of Tertiary Education
The Student Loans Act signed by Tinubu on Democracy Day (12th June) 2023 is a cruel hoax. Student loans have failed in Western countries and the version for Nigeria will help very few students due to the harsh conditions. The Government’s supporters claim that loans are the modern way to fund higher education. They claim that the governments...
We Need to Organise for a Strategy to Win
Socialist always try to extend, to deepen and to generalise strikes so that with unity and solidarity we can win. In contrast, as was shown yet again with the recent general strike, trade union leaders want to contain our struggles and maintain their control.
The tripling of the price of petrol in June threw...
People of Niger hit hard by sanctions imposed since the coup by the Nigerian Government and others
Chicken sellers in front of a pharmacy in Niamey
Hamsa Diakité, 65, cannot remember the last time the eight members of his family ate a good meal. She supported them by selling fried bread until the July 26 coup led to sanctions against Niger, reducing incomes in...
SOCIALIST BULLETIN NOVEMBER 2023
The poor majority have suffered major attacks on their living standards in the last few months. The price of petrol tripled, transport costs doubled and officially food inflation was over 30% over the year to the end of September. However, the trades unions have so far failed to provide the necessary robust response need to these attacks.
Resolute Action Needed from the NLC/TUC As Government Reneges on its Promise!
Half Way Through the NLC/TUCs 30 day suspension of its strike the Federal Government appears to have reneged on its promise to pay all Federal workers N35,000. The trade unions shoud seek clarification on this issue. Then the NLC/TUC should consider strike action if the Memorandum of Understanding is not to be implemented as agreed.
Trade Unions in the States will have to fight to Win Pay Increases
In January, 2023, workers in Federal Government budget funded bodies were given a 40% pay increase. As a result of the agreement to suspend strike action by the NLC/TUC in early October Federal workers were awarded another increase of N35,000 a month (at least for those funded by the Treasury). However, these increases do not yet apply...