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08/02/2012: General strike on 7 February opposes “mediaeval labour conditions!"
08/02/2012: No trust in Arab League and imperialist powers
08/02/2012: A big protest rally in freezing temperatures greeted the Kazakhstan
president as he attended a meeting to strengthen relations with the
German government and big business.
05/02/2012: 74 killed in horrific scenes
04/02/2012: Joe Higgins argues in Cork, 26 January, to resist the household tax:
"Yes, we have a choice!"
03/02/2012: A strike corresponding to the level of anger over austerity programme
03/02/2012: The capitalist classes of Europe are all adopting the same policy of
attempting to make the working class pay for the capitalist economic
crisis.
02/02/2012: A socialist view on recent showdown between government and people
01/02/2012: The repression will not stop the movement!
01/02/2012: CWI – a socialist analysis
31/01/2012: Frequently asked questions
31/01/2012: Urgent solidarity needed
31/01/2012: The lessons of the first waves of revolutionary movements
31/01/2012: Worldwide solidarity campaign means the Kazakhstan regime can no longer
deny 16 December massacre
31/01/2012: Interview with two Tunisian socialists, one year after the fall of Ben
Ali
30/01/2012: Fight Against Corporate Politics
30/01/2012: Bryan Koulouris explains how the USA is being transformed by the occupy
movements which have arisen in anger at the growing inequality between
the 1% and the 99% in the United States
30/01/2012: Once again, a United Nations-sponsored climate change conference has
completely failed to address the issue of global warming.
29/01/2012: December’s industrial action against austerity just the beginning of the
fight-back!
29/01/2012: Whole continent on the verge of major social convulsions and political
shocks
28/01/2012: The illusory appearance of a peculiar isolation from the international
picture of stagnation, recession and economic crisis is fragile - a new
period of turbulent class conflict lays ahead
27/01/2012: CWI’s Zhang Shujie speaks out at hearing in Sweden’s parliament
26/01/2012: Euro-zone crisis deepens
26/01/2012: Masses in Cairo and other cities demand end to military rule
26/01/2012: LSD legislator from Hong Kong to speak in support of young socialist
Zhang Shujie, forced to flee China
25/01/2012: Contradictions and new struggles define situation in region
25/01/2012: 3 year old child killed in fatal repression
25/01/2012: Release Vadim Kuramshin and all those arrested – End harassment of
opposition activists!
25/01/2012: 16 December underlined the need for the workers’ movement to link
economic demands to the struggle to bring down the regime
24/01/2012: Key Battle for the Labour and Occupy Movements
22/01/2012: As world economy worsens, inter-imperialist relations intensify
21/01/2012: How socialists and the local community fought back against racism and
the BNP
20/01/2012: Scottish National Party’s version of indepdendence a nightmare for
workers
18/01/2012: As economic crisis worsens, new class conflicts loom
17/01/2012: Struggle forces Jonathan back a bit, but could have won far more with a
more resolute leadership - We Condemn Repression by Police and Army
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|  02/02/2012, A socialist view on recent showdown between government and people
Interview with Segun Sango, Democratic
Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria)
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|  17/01/2012, Struggle forces Jonathan back a bit, but could have won far more with a
more resolute leadership - We Condemn Repression by Police and Army
Peluola Adewale, Democratic
Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria)
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|  11/01/2012, Pictures of the movement taken by DSM activists
Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria)
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|  10/01/2012, Total shut down across the country as the working class shows it owns
society
By Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria) reporters
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|  09/01/2012, For a serious fight against President’s New Year "gift". No rotten
compromise!
Article from special edition of Socialist Democracy, paper of the
Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria)
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|  09/01/2012, Diaspora protest against fuel subsidy removal
Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) reporters
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|  05/01/2012, For all out mass action from 9 January!
Leaflet produced by Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria)
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|  04/01/2012, Labour should declare two-days of mass actions including general strike
and mass protests
By DSM (CWI in Nigeria) reporters
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|  20/09/2011, For a two-day general strike now! No to retrenchment of workers!
By H.T. Soweto, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria)
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|  02/09/2011, Terrorism Takes Root in Nigeria amidst Deep Social and Economic Crisis
H. T. Soweto, DSM (CWI Nigeria)
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|  28/08/2011, Workers must take the struggle to the next level
Leaflet of the DSM (CWI Nigeria), Osun State Chapter
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|  27/08/2011, Daily increase in number of students, tremendous devotion from volunteer
teachers
HT Soweto, DSM (CWI Nigeria)
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|  15/07/2011, For Active Strike with a Series of Mass Activities
Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria)
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|  06/05/2011, On three different dates, April 9, April 16 and April 26, Nigeria held
the general elections to elect politicians that would control power at
central and state levels for the next four years.
Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in
Nigeria)
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|  20/02/2011, New voters’ registration for election in April: Same old organisational
and political problems
Segun Sango, DSM (CWI Nigeria)
General Secretary
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Further articles on 'Nigeria':- 30/11/2010: Nigeria: Occupation of Power Holding Company by armed forces against
workers’ rights
Victor Osakwe, National Secretary of the Campaign
for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) - 12/11/2010: Nigeria 2011: Will the general elections be different from the farce
2007?
Democratic Socialist Movement
(CWI Nigeria) - 09/11/2010: Nigeria: Three day warning strike on minimum wage
Democratic Socialist Movement
(CWI Nigeria) - 02/11/2010: Nigeria: Warning strike on new minimum wage demand is welcome
DSM Statement by Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist
Movement (CWI in Nigeria) - 06/10/2010: Nigeria: Re-inventing the Labour Party
Segun Sango, DSM (CWI Nigeria)
General Secretary - 02/09/2010: Nigeria: Goodluck Jonathan Presidency
From October 2010 edition of Socialist Democracy, paper of the
Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria) - 11/08/2010: Nigeria, Don’t Hand Over Labour Party to Moneybags
Peluola Adewale, DSM (CWI
Nigeria) - 22/07/2010: Nigeria: Detained socialists released by police following attack by
thugs at university
Taiwo Hassan Soweto, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria) - 14/07/2010: NGERIA: UNPROVOKED AUTHORITIES-SPONSORED ATTACK ON DSM OAU BRANCH
Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in
Nigeria) - 10/05/2010: Nigeria: Joe Higgins exposes underlying causes of atrocities
Joe Higgins, MEP Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 20/04/2010: Nigeria: "Threat to My Life"
Dagga Tolar - 08/04/2010: Nigeria: Ajegunle Police Killings - socialists and others escape arrest
and criminal charges
Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria) reporters - 07/04/2010: Nigeria: Ajegunle Police Killings Update - Police Arrest Dagga Tolar and
two others today
PRESS STATEMENT– Segun Sango, General Secretary DSM (CWI in Nigeria) - 07/04/2010: Nigeria: Mindless police killings in Ajegunle
By Peluola Adewale, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM – CWI in Nigeria) - 18/02/2010: Nigeria: Jonathan’s Acting Presidency- Labour Must stop sowing illusions!
Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in
Nigeria) - 05/02/2010: Nigeria: On a cliff edge
Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM – CWI
in Nigeria)
2009: - 15/12/2009: Video: Segun Sango on Nigeria, World Relations and the CWI
socialistworld.net - 18/09/2009: Nigeria: Celebrating the life and struggles of Gani
By Keye Ewebiyi and Lateef Adams, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM -
CWI in Nigeria) - 01/09/2009: Nigeria: Niger Delta - An amnesty doomed to failure
From August/September edition of Socialist Democracy, paper of the
Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM – CWI in Nigeria) - 24/08/2009: Nigeria: Free the BRT Lagbus 5 campaign
Chinedu Bosah, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), Lagos - 19/08/2009: Nigeria: Labour and Civil Society Coalition rally in Ibadan
H.T Soweto, Democratic Socialist Movement, cwi in Nigeria - 19/08/2009: Nigeria: ERC leads students in protest to support ASUU strike
Keye Ewebiyi, Democratic Socialist Movement, cwi in Nigeria - 10/07/2009: Nigeria: July 10 1999 OAU cult attack
Peluola Adewale , DSM (CWI in Nigeria) - 18/06/2009: Nigeria: Soweto massacre anniversary arrests - 4 activists freed
H.T Soweto, National Coordinator, Education Rights Campaign (ERC) - 17/06/2009: Nigeria: Police forcefully disperse youth and students’ rally
commemorating the 1976 Soweto massacre in Lagos
Segun Sango, General secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM – CWI
in Nigeria) - 08/06/2009: Nigeria: Niger Delta crisis - collective working class action needed
Segun Sango, General secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in
Nigeria) - 17/03/2009: Nigeria: Government plans the selling off of oil industry
Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in
Nigeria) - 05/01/2009: Nigeria: Labour’s demand for fifty two thousand two hundred naira
minimum wage
Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement, (cwi in
Nigeria)
2008: - 24/12/2008: Nigeria: OAU - Struggle for reinstatement continues
Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI, Nigeria) - 23/12/2008: Nigeria: 2009 Budget - Poor Working Masses are in for Worse Living
Conditions
Segun Sango, General Sectretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in
Nigeria) - 09/12/2008: Nigeria: The Jos mayhem: Characteristic of a failed state
Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in
Nigeria) - 04/12/2008: Nigeria: One year on, 10 victimised student activists are yet to get
justice
Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) (CWI in Nigeria) - 09/10/2008: Nigeria: DSM Socialist School 2008
Peluola Adewale, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM – CWI Nigeria) - 22/09/2008: Nigeria: Socialists and civil rights activists protest against Channels
TV closure
Peluola Adewale, Democratic Socialist Movement, Lagos - 15/07/2008: Nigeria: Osun State Election Petition Scandal
Peluola Adewale, Democratic Socialist Movement, CWI Nigeria - 14/07/2008: Nigeria: 10 July solidarity action with teachers’ strike
socialistworld.net - 10/07/2008: Nigeria: Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO) calls ‘Solidarity
Day’ with teachers’ strike
Segun Sango, General Secretary Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) - 04/07/2008: Nigeria: Government’s anti-union response to teachers’ strike
Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in
Nigeria) - 03/07/2008: Nigeria: Teachers all-out strike for a living wage
Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI
Nigeria) - 30/06/2008: Nigeria: Education Rights Campaign
Press Statement by the Education Rights Campaign, Nigeria - 12/06/2008: Nigeria: Teachers’ strike for wages
Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement - 18/04/2008: Nigeria: Power project looters
Peluola Adewale, Democratic Socialist Movement, cwi in Nigeria - 25/02/2008: Nigeria: Detained student activists freed!
Peluola Adewale,Democratic Socialist Movement,Lagos Nigeria - 17/02/2008: Nigeria: Socialists address commemoration meeting for well known activist
Chinedu Bosah, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM - CWI in Nigeria)
2007: - 22/11/2007: Nigeria: Imprisoned student activists get dates for bail hearing secured
Peluola Adewale, DSM (Democratic Socialist Movement), Lagos - 15/11/2007: Nigeria: State’s delaying tactics block imprisoned students’ release
Pelad, Lagos, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria) - 01/11/2007: Nigeria: Free the students campaign, next steps
socialistworld.net - 25/10/2007: Nigeria: Imprisoned students get world-wide support
socialistworld.net - 25/10/2007: Nigeria: Day of action protest march in Osogbo
A correspondent in Nigeria - 19/10/2007: Nigeria: Student leaders framed on charges of conspiracy to murder
Press statement by Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights in Nigeria - 16/10/2007: Nigeria: Corrupt State government makes up attempted murder charges
against student activists
Robert Bechert, CWI - 12/10/2007: nigeria: OAU Ile Ife Crisis
Dagga Tolar, Democratic Socialist Movement, cwi Nigeria, Monday 11
October 2007 - 14/08/2007: Nigeria: After June’s general strike, what now?
Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM - CWI
Nigeria), Lagos - 26/06/2007: Nigeria: General strike ends after four days
Robert Bechert, CWI London - 22/06/2007: Nigeria: "Labour’s most successful national strike"
Segun Sango, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria), General
Secretary - 21/06/2007: Nigeria: Nigeria: General strike brings country to a standstill
Pelad, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI) Executive Committee, Lagos - 20/06/2007: Nigeria: Solid general strike against fuel and tax hikes and for decent
wages
Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria) leaflet text - 06/06/2007: Nigeria: Nationwide protests greet new rulers
Peluola Adewale (Pelad), Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI, Nigeria) - 28/05/2007: Nigeria: Election farce brews new Nigerian storms
Robert Bechert, cwi - 25/05/2007: Nigeria: Unions and community groups call two day mass protest against
election fraud
Democratic Socialist Movement mobilisation leaflet - 15/05/2007: Nigeria: Workers’ movement must lead mass resistance after rigged
general election
Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement - 03/05/2007: Nigeria: May day 2007 - Free arrested activists now!
Victor Osakwe, Secretary - 02/05/2007: Nigeria: Free arrested activists now
Socialistworld.net - 25/04/2007: Nigeria: Election farce
Robert Bechert, CWI London. - 21/04/2007: Nigeria: 2007 Elections - A Very Farcical Exercise
Statement by Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria) - 19/04/2007: Nigeria: After the elections, what next?
Segun Sango, general secretary Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI
Nigeria), Lagos - 19/04/2007: Nigeria: Urgent appeal to support socialist campaign against election
rigging
socialistworld.net - 19/03/2007: Nigeria: April election campaigns met with mass indifference
Robert Bechert, CWI - 26/01/2007: Nigeria: DSM goodwill message to the Nigerian Labour Congress
Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement, cwi in
Nigeria
2006: 2005: - 12/11/2005: Nigeria: Country descends into the abyss
Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI
Nigeria), - 27/09/2005: Nigeria: United across the divide, tens of thousands demonstrate in Kano
Kevin Simpson, cwi, London - 16/09/2005: Nigeria: Mass demonstrations against the hike in fuel prices
Democratic Socialist Movement, CWI Nigeria, Friday 16 September 2005 - 09/09/2005: Nigeria: Fuel price rise provokes renewed anger
Robert Bechert, cwi, London - 05/09/2005: Nigeria: One fuel price hike too many
Dagga Tollar, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), Nigeria - 29/08/2005: Nigeria: Oppose the hike in fuel prices
Segun Sango, Chairman, Lagos NCP - 12/08/2005: Nigeria: $18 billion debt pardon - second slavery in disguise
Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in
Nigeria) - 01/08/2005: Nigeria: Reject the deadly deal, insist on debt cancellation
Movement against debt enslavement (MADE), Nigeria - 30/06/2005: Nigeria: Resisting neo-liberal attacks - fighting for a socialist
alternative
Demo, Democratic Socialist Movement, Lagos - 05/05/2005: Nigeria: President Obsanjo’s regime launches fake anti-corruption drive
By a Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) member, Lagos - 02/05/2005: Nigeria: Continual government fuel hikes
By a Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) member, Lagos - 08/04/2005: Nigeria: new fuel prices increase will cause social misery
Segun Sango, DSM, Nigeria, Friday 8 April 2005. - 07/04/2005: Nigeria: President introduces anti-union legislation
Dagga Tolar, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) Publicity Secretary - 11/02/2005: Nigeria: President Obsanajo’s "national dialogue" going nowhere
Statement by the Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI), Nigeria
2004: - 14/11/2004: Nigeria: Unions call seventh general strike since 2000
Democratic Socialist Movement, cwi in Nigeria - 12/11/2004: Nigeria: How Labour should engage the Obasanjo administration
Segun Sango, Democratic Socialist Movement - 04/11/2004: Nigeria: Fourth general strike in 10 months
Robert Bechert, cwi, London - 12/10/2004: Nigeria: Massive General strike stops Nigeria again
Robert Bechert, cwi - 08/10/2004: Nigeria: Resist Obasanjo anti-peoples agenda now
- 24/09/2004: Nigeria: Anti-union court decision leads to new hike in fuel prices
Tanja Niemeier, cwi - 16/09/2004: Nigeria: Trade unions face legal onslaught
Robert Bechert, cwi - 07/08/2004: Nigeria: General strikes
Democratic Socialist Movement, Nigeria - 17/07/2004: Nigeria: Political commemoration of Rotimi Ewebiyi
Democratic Socialist Movement, Nigeria - 14/07/2004: Nigeria: Socialist activists released
socialistworld.net - 08/07/2004: Nigeria: Socialist activists arrested:
Segun Sango, DSM General Secretary - 16/06/2004: Nigeria: General strike again stops Nigeria but union leaders have no
policy
Robert Bechert, CWI - 09/06/2004: Nigeria: Time for regime and system change
Dagga Tolar, DSM Publicity Secretary - 09/06/2004: Nigeria: Obituary - A Rare Class Fighter Passes On!!!
Courtesy: Democratic Socialist Movement - 07/06/2004: Obituary: Rotimi Ewebiyi (1963-2004)
cwi - 12/04/2004: Nigeria: A country in crisis
Peter Hadden, cwi - 21/01/2004: Nigeria: General strike begins
socialistworld.net - 13/01/2004: Nigeria: New tax provokes general strike threat
socialistworld.net
2003: - 06/12/2003: Nigeria: International appeal for support
Segun Sango, General Secretary, DSM - 31/10/2003: Nigeria: Support Nigerian socialists
cwi online - 25/10/2003: Nigeria: Fuel prices jump
CWI online - 16/10/2003: Nigeria: Trade Union leaders arrested: Free detained labour leaders and
stop all attacks on the labour movement
Segun Sango, General Secretary, Lagos, 15th October 2003 - 13/10/2003: Nigeria: General Strike suspended at last minute
Segun Sango, General Secretary, DSM, Nigeria - 31/07/2003: Nigeria: Lessons of the general strike against fuel price rise.
Special Bulletin August 2003, Socialist Democracy, CWI in Nigeria - 08/07/2003: Nigeria: Mighty general strike ends with a compromise
Robert Bechert, CWI - 01/07/2003: Nigeria: Strike and protests - massive response
Segun Sango - 30/06/2003: Nigeria: General strike against fuel price rises
DSM National Secretariat, Lagos, 29th June 2003 - 22/06/2003: Nigeria: Fuel price increase
Segun Sango, Democratic Socialist Movement, Nigeria - 29/05/2003: Nigeria: Suspension of student activists in Obafemi Awolowo University,
Ile â€" Ife, Nigeria
CWI online - 27/04/2003: Nigeria, 2003 elections: Lessons for the National Conscience Party
- 23/04/2003: Nigeria: Obasanjo’s election victory â€" a poisoned chalice
Robert Bechert, CWI - 05/03/2003: Iraq: Nigeria - NANS says no to war on Iraq
Alayande Stepten T., Coordinator. - 07/02/2003: Nigeria: Working class districts welcome National Conscience Party
election campaign
CWI correspondent, Lagos - 07/02/2003: Nigeria: Victory for Kabelmetal workers
By members of DSM, Lagos, Nigeria - 04/02/2003: Nigeria: National Conscience Party activists fight election hurdles
By a CWI correspondent in Nigeria - 16/01/2003: Nigeria: Radical opposition holds special congress
DSM National Secretariat, Lagos - 13/01/2003: Nigeria: Support sacked worker activist
Olamide Olatunji and Ojo Olajire, Lagos. - 01/01/2003: Nigeria: Registration of NCP - Another victory for the working people
2002: - 28/11/2002: Nigeria: Exploitation and poverty behind riots
From The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party, England and Wales
section of the CWI. - 22/11/2002: Nigeria: Supreme Court allows more parties to stand in elections
Socialist Democracy Special Bulletin, Lagos - 12/11/2002: Nigeria: Cameroun Bakassi peninsula - No war for oil
Segun Sango, DSM General Secretary. - 21/09/2002: Nigeria: No to Bush’s war against Iraq
Segun Sango, General Secretary, DSM (Nigeria). 17 September 2002 - 06/08/2002: Nigeria: Register the NCP now
Published from Socialist Democracy – newspaper of the Democratic
Socialist Movement (DSM), August - September 2002, published in Lagos,
Nigeria - 06/08/2002: Nigeria: African Union - A bright new dawn?
Friday Foluso - Published from Socialist Democracy – newspaper of the
Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), August - September 2002, published
in Lagos, Nigeria. - 10/07/2002: Nigeria: Fighting attempts to rig forthcoming elections.
Special, 4 July, issue of "Socialist Democracy", paper of the Democratic
Socialist Movement, CWI section in Nigeria. Printed and published in
Nigeria. - 24/06/2002: Nigeria: NCP recognition refused
24 June 2002 - 13/05/2002: Nigeria: Three years of civil rule - Which way for the masses?
- 13/05/2002: Nigeria: World Cup 2002. From Amodu to Onigbinde, any hope for Nigerian
soccer?
Victor Osakwe - 02/02/2002: Nigeria: Bomb explosions in Lagos: Hold the Nigerian elite responsible!
Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), 2
February 2002 - 18/01/2002: Nigeria: General strike - call for protests
Committee for a Workers’ International, PO Box 3688, London, E11 1YE. - 17/01/2002: Nigeria: Paralysed by General strike
Segun Sango, General Secretary DSM, Lagos. - 11/01/2002: Nigeria: Fight fuel price hike
Democratic Socialist Movement, 162 Ipaja Road, Agege, Lagos, Nigeria, 11
January 2002
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