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South Africa: ANC re-elects scandal-ridden Ramaphosa as party leader

January 6, 2023 Shaun Arendse, Marxist Workers Party (CWI, South Africa)

The African National Congress December conference re-elected Cyril Ramaphosa as party leader for a second five-year term. He will therefore almost certainly lead the ANC into national elections in 2024. Although Ramaphosa remains ‘the most […]

South Africa

SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC SECTOR STRIKE | All-Out United Strike Action Needed

November 15, 2022 Shaun Arendse, Marxist Workers Party (CWI South Africa)

On 10 November the first national strike against the ANC-government’s assault on public sector pay took place. The Public Service Association (PSA), representing 230,000 of South Africa’s 1.2 million public sector workers, downed tools for […]

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Nigeria’s worst floods in a decade

November 5, 2022 By Peluola Adewale, Organising Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM)

This year, floods have wreaked serious havoc and suffering in Nigeria. The country experiences floods every year but this is the worst since 2012 when there was a similar degree of devastation with 363 deaths […]

South Africa

South Africa: Make August 24 Shutdown the First Step in a Campaign of Rolling Mass Action

August 23, 2022 Marxist Workers Party (CWI South Africa)

STRIKE AGAIN IN SEPTEMBER! NAME THE DATE NOW! RECONVENE THE WORKING CLASS SUMMIT BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR – SET A LAUNCH DATE FOR THE WORKERS PARTY The South African Federation of Trade Unions […]

Nigeria

‘A cry for justice’ – one year since the murder of Comrade Nurudeen Alowonle, a.k.a Omomeewa

August 18, 2022 Statement by the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) Nigeria

Thursday 18 August 2022 makes it exactly one year that Comrade Nurudeen Alowonle, a.k.a Omomeewa, was brutally murdered. Until his unfortunate death, comrade Omomeewa was a leading student activist at the Lagos State University (LASU) […]

South Africa

Marikana 10 years on – Historical significance of uprising of South African mineworkers

August 18, 2022 Weizmann Hamilton, Marxist Workers Party (CWI in South Africa)

There can be no tribute more fitting to the martyrs of Marikana than the South African Federation of Trade Unions’ planned National Shut Down on 24 August 2022 which is attracting support across the workers’ movement. A […]

Nigeria

Nigeria: Mass protests over closure of universities

July 27, 2022 By Peluola Adewale, Organising Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM, CWI in Nigeria)

On Tuesday, July 26, 2022, there was a huge turnout of workers and other protesters in the state capitals across Nigeria for a nationwide protest called by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) over the continued […]

Algeria

Six decades since Algeria’s war of independence

July 5, 2022 Clare Doyle, CWI

July 5 is the sixtieth anniversary of Algeria’s Independence Day in 1962 which marked the end of the eight-year war of independence. CLARE DOYLE looks back at a seminal struggle in the post-1945 movement against […]

Nigeria

Segun Sango: Family, Comrades, and Friends bid Outstanding Revolutionary Socialist farewell

June 30, 2022 By Omole Ibukun

“A nation that is well endowed with human and material resources but perpetually held down in a state of coma is an absurdity that cannot be rationally justified unless you believe in the irrationality of […]

Nigeria

Segun Sango – an appreciation

June 23, 2022 By Robert Bechert, Member of the Committee for a Workers’ International Secretariat

Segun Sango (7 May 1958 – 23 May 2022) – founding member and General Secretary of the Democratic Socialist Movement, the CWI in Nigeria Many of the obituaries for and reminiscences of Segun Sango have […]

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