Bob Labi, from the CWI’s International Secretariat, discuss the Lagos government’s war on the poor with Hassan Taiwo Soweto, member of the Democratic Socialist Movement and spokesperson of #EndBadGovernance Movement Lagos. Recently, this has included a forced gentrification process leading to a demolition spree of markets, houses and communities. At a recent protest, activists were met with brutal police repression. Soweto describes his experiences at the sharp end of this brutality and the wider political context of the war on Lagos’s working class and poor communities.