Nigeria

Insecurity has become a daily reality in Nigeria, getting worse year in year out. Little wonder it hardly creates any sense of shock even though there is dissatisfaction over the failure of the government to […]

Though couched in a diplomatic tone that leaves room for manipulation, the July 1st statement by the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) representative in Nigeria that over $8 billion, equal to 2% of the country’s GDP, […]

We Risk Jail Term for Daring to Stop State-Backed Theft of Poor People’s Land but We Remain Undaunted On Friday, 24 April 2026, it would be the third time that I and Dele Frank (Arole […]

On March 11, 2026, Hassan Taiwo Soweto, member of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) and spokesperson of #EndBadGovernance Movement Lagos, and Dele Frank (Arole Fela) are expected to appear before a magistrate court in Yaba, […]

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 […]

Statement issued after Hassan Taiwo Soweto and Dele Frank (Arole Fela) were released on bail being arrested at the January 28 residents’ march against demolitions in Lagos waterfront communities. The Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) confirms […]

Hassan Taiwo Soweto, a leading member of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM, CWI in Nigeria) and spokesperson of #EndBadGovernance Movement Lagos, was arrested today at the Lagos State House of Assembly, probably with other protesters.  […]

Only the united action of the working people can end insecurity On Christmas Day 2025, the United States launched missiles that reportedly hit two terrorist camps in the Bauni forest axis of Tangaza Local Government […]

Pressure forces Nigerian government to abandon sham trial of Adaramoye Michael Lenin and ten other #EndBadGovernance protesters charged with treason and terrorism Today, December 10, 2025, Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court Abuja […]

Widespread banditry, terrorism, and social unrest are direct consequences of failure of capitalism and pro-capitalist policies of successive governments For united, non-sectarian, multi-ethnic, multi-religion and democratically run defense committees in communities The Socialist Party of […]

Today, September 2, 2025, marks exactly a year since the Tinubu government arraigned Adaramoye Michael Lenin and nine other #EndBadGovernance protesters over their role in the #EndBadGovernance protest, which took place between August 1 and […]

Finally, Justice Emeka Nwite was available yesterday, June 25, to preside over the treason trial of Adaramoye Michael Lenin and ten others, after having been absent in court three times previously since last November. However, there […]

On June 12, protests were held in a few states across the country as a continuation of an expression by the working masses and youth of their rejection of the anti-poor capitalist policies of the […]

#ENDBADGOVERNANCE MOVEMENT, LAGOS STATE, PRESS STATEMENT A REVIEW OF TWO YEARS OF PRESIDENT TINUBU’S GOVERNMENT OF HUNGER, HARDSHIP AND PAIN AND THE WAY FORWARD FOR THE NIGERIAN MASSES This press conference  has been convened to commemorate the […]

Donald Trump’s policies purportedly aimed at “Make America Great Again” have thrown the world into turmoil. It is an “America First” agenda which is characterized by protectionism, anti-immigration measures and transactional diplomacy. This is to […]

End the attacks on democratic rights! We support Amnesty International’s report titled “bloody August” indicting the Police and other security agencies of a crackdown on peaceful protesters End the 6-year long trial and drop all […]

Below is the text of a press conference addressed by the #Endbadgovernance movement, Lagos State Chapter, on Wednesday 6 November 2024 at the International Press Centre (IPC), Ogba, to respond to the discontinuation of suit […]

On Friday, 1st November 2024, the Nigerian government arraigned 76 protesters, including 32 minors aged between 14 and 17, for ‘terrorism and treason’ at a Federal High Court in Abuja and January 24, 2025 was […]

The day after the article below by a leader of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) was published, the Nigeria Labour Congress finally issued a statement entitled ‘NIGERIA’S ECONOMIC MESS AND IMF’S DENIAL: “ESAU’S HANDS BUT […]

Today, in the early afternoon, twenty two EndBadGovernance protesters arrested for marking the murder of EndSARS protesters were released by the police. The #EndSARS struggle of October 2020 is a watershed in the history of Nigeria. […]

Drop Trumped-up Charges and Release all Detainees Unconditionally Now! We of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) formally announce the release of Adaramoye Michael Lenin and Mosiu Sodiq after almost two months in the captivity of […]

Build Action Committees at Workplaces, Campuses and Communities For a Rolling Mass Action and a 48-hour General Strike Now! One incontrovertible fact in Nigeria today is that the past one and half years of President […]

From Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales).    It has been a tale of woes and anguish in Nigeria as the government, led by Bola Tinubu, has continued to unleash multiple […]

Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) Condemns Conditions of Bail Granted to Adaramoye Michael Lenin and Nine Others Demands Dropping of Trumped-up Charges and Release of all Detainees We Call for Solidarity from NLC, TUC and Civil […]

But Struggle Continues to drop all charges and free all jailed #EndBadGovernance activists On Wednesday September 11, Adaramoye Michael Lenin and nine others were granted bail by a Federal High Court at the Federal Capital […]

The Partido Obrero (PO – Workers’ Party) of Argentina stands in solidarity with the campaign for the release of hundreds of demonstrators detained in Nigeria, particularly in the days of last August, in the protest […]

International appeal from the Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) Economy collapsing and anger mounting Government moves to intimidate and punish opposition Drop ‘Treason’ and ‘Terrorism’ charges against protest organisers Defend the right to protest and free […]

On Tuesday 27 August 2024 the Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) held a press conference at the International Press Centre (IPC) Ogba, Lagos, over the arrest and continued detention without trial of the YRC National Coordinator, […]

For a 24-Hour General Strike and Mass Protest to Reject President Tinubu’s Civilian Dictatorship Free Michael Lenin, Mosiu Sodiq, Eleojo Opaluwa and all unjustly detained over #EndBadGovernance protest The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) condemns the […]

On August 8th, members of Sol (CWI Germany) in Berlin gathered in front of the Nigerian embassy to protest for the immediate release of Adaramoye Michael, Babatunde Oluajo and Mosiu Sodiq. During protests against the […]

Socialist activists in Ireland and Britain protested at Nigerian embassies in Dublin and London this week demanding the immediate release of local youth leaders and CWI comrades Babatunde Oluajo and Adaramoye Michael from police detention […]

Adaramoye Michael (‘Michael Lenin’), National Coordinator of Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) and National Mobilisation Officer of Education Rights Campaign (ERC) has been abducted by the Nigerian state forces, the Department of State Services (DSS), in […]

The following text is from a leaflet being distributed by Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria) and Youth Rights Campaign in Lagos and other areas in the nationwide protests scheduled to start on August 1. socialistworld.net […]

Nigerians are living in hellish times. Since last year raging inflation and a collapsing economy have savaged living standards. Africa’s most populous country is facing an existential crisis as the regime pushes ahead with a […]

The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) welcomes the decision of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) to embark on an indefinite general strike from Monday June 3 over the failure of the […]

We of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) consider the decision of the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to suspend the two-day nationwide protest of February 27 and 28, 2024 after only one day […]

On Monday 26th February 2024, the Joint Action Front (JAF) in conjunction with Coalition for Revolution (CORE), held protest actions in Lagos and three other states in Nigeria over the worsening cost of living crisis. […]

The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) applauds all Nigerian workers, women, students, youth and the poor masses who have been protesting over the past weeks against the mounting hardship and elevating cost of living crisis that […]

Nigeria is in turmoil. A combination of economic crisis, a massive currency devaluation, neo-liberal economic policies, insecurity, various insurgencies and most recently neo-liberal policies rushed though by the new president have plunged the country into […]

*** STOP PRESS *** The court proceedings against Abbey Trotsky were adjourned today (20 February) until 29th July, 2024. The magistrate rescinded her decision at the last sitting to proceed without Abbey having legal representation. […]

National Labour Council (NLC) and TUC must take action to halt the persecution of Abbey with the immediate commencement of a serious campaign against casualisation and related indecent labour practices in workplaces The Campaign for […]

On Thursday 14 December 2023, a day after the public unveiling of our new pamphlet “Ten Reasons why Tinubu’s Students Loan is a Scam”, operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), the secret police of the […]

Late on Monday, 13 November, Nigeria’s two trade union federations, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), called for an indefinite general strike to start the next day as no agreement […]

The widespread killings of Israeli civilians in the October 7 attack were something that socialists did not support but neither do we support the subsequent onslaught by the Israeli state against the civilian population of […]

Nigeria has faced increased turmoil as the neo-liberal attacks launched at the end of May by the new president, Bola Tinubu, produced a huge leap in fuel prices and a currency collapse, giving a further […]

If a poll is conducted in Nigeria today asking average Nigerians how they have fared since May 29 when President Bola Tinubu came to power, the prevailing answer is likely going to be a tale […]

The past few weeks have been one of intolerable suffering for the workers and oppressed masses of Nigeria as the new capitalist government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu unleashes an avalanche of neo-liberal and anti-poor […]

When the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) announced an indefinite general strike to respond to the provocative removal of petrol subsidy by the newly elected administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, we of the Democratic Socialist […]

Protesters in Lagos and London have demanded that the persecution and political harassment of Seun Kuti ends immediately. Kuti is a famous musician, son of legendary musician Fela Kuti, and chairperson of the Nigerian Movement […]

Eko John Nicholas, a member of the Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria), was arrested at a May Day rally, detained, and subjected to harassment and intimidation by operatives of Nigeria’s state intelligence service. The […]

It is no news that the former governor of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has been declared the winner of the presidential election held on Saturday, February 25, 2023. […]

Less than 25 days to the 2023 presidential election, it is becoming glaring to even the most apolitical that Nigeria is doomed so far as it remains under the rule of the chronically inept, fantastically […]

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 […]

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) […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

In the absence of a genuine mass workers’ political alternative, it is now beyond doubt that the 2023 general elections in Nigeria will be dominated by two old, virulently anti-worker, anti-poor, and incurably corrupt presidential […]

The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) condemns the tragic attack on St. Francis Catholic Church Owo, Ondo State by yet-to-be-identified gunmen on Sunday 5 June 2022. We join Nigerians to mourn the scores who died while […]

The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) joins members of the public to condemn the brutal and gruesome killing on Thursday 12 May 2022 of Ms. Deborah Samuel, a second year student at Shehu Shagari College of […]

Ordinarily, Nigerians are no strangers to suffering. But if the truth must be told, the kind of suffering and misery being experienced by the mass of Nigerians over the past few months is second to […]

The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) condemns the tragic attack by terrorists on a Kaduna-bound train on Monday, March 28, 2022, and condoles with the families of the victims, as well as the leadership and […]

On Monday 24 January 2022, the Federal Government of Nigeria, through the Minister of Finance, Budget and Economic Planning, Zainab Ahmed, announced the postponement of the planned removal of subsidy on petroleum products till further […]

When Strikes and protests nearly swept a capitalist regime out of power Ten years ago, instead of the festivities that often herald the New Year, Nigerian working people and youth started the year 2012 at […]

On Saturday 4 December 2021, 15 NEC members and organizers of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM – CWI Nigeria) from different states and areas of work gathered at a hybrid (in-person and zoom) NEC meeting […]

November 30th saw Nigeria’s Lagos State government publish a ‘white paper’ in response to the Lagos State Judicial Panel that held a public inquiry into last year’s murderous assault on #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki […]

This week, a report by Nigeria’s official Judicial Panel of Inquiry into the October 20, 2020, state attack on #End SARS protesters at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos, blew apart the Nigerian state’s continuous attempt […]

The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN), Lagos State Chapter, commiserates with the families of those who lost their lives and those injured in another tragic incident of building collapse in Lagos State. According to 2nd […]

On the occasion of the first anniversary of the #EndSARS protest, the Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) salute all radical youth who stood against police brutality and state repression, last October, as well as those who […]

Premium Times, along with a few other media organizations in Nigeria, has been publishing daily exposures of the revelations they unearthed, alongside 600 journalists from 150 news organizations around the world, in a global investigation […]

‘Nigeria is a failed state’. This was the headline of an article in the May 2021 edition of the US Foreign Affairs magazine, as two US academics, one of them previously US Ambassador to Nigeria, […]

Tragically, a CWI comrade in Nigeria, Nurudeen Alowonle a.k.a Omomeewa, was murdered in Lagos, late on 18 August. It is not clear why comrade Omomeewa, along with a supporter who was wounded and is now […]

The unemployment crisis in Nigeria has continued to worsen, together with the worrisome rate of poverty. According to a policy report by the Bureau of Public Service Reforms in 2018, the country needs to provide […]

For a continent often defined to the outside world by corrupt politicians, dictators and the notorious internet scammers, a success story in any legitimate endeavour elicits celebration. This explains the outpour of joy across Nigeria […]

A peaceful protest called by activists over the weekend, Saturday 13 February 2021, to protest the decision to reopen Lekki tollgate to business was openly and brutally repressed. This new repression following widespread protest against […]

A violent clampdown took place against protesters on Saturday 13 February 2021 as they were assembling to peacefully protest the decision of the Lagos State Judicial panel to reopen the tollgate where scores of protesters […]

This year has seen a further intensification of conflicts and clashes, in different parts of Nigeria, between herdsmen and farmers in some areas and different ethnic groups in others. This has added to the sense […]

Nigeria has passed through nearly a month of turmoil. Video footage of the hated SARS police unit killing a man and driving off in his car was the spark for mass protests. Years of frustration, […]

The Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria) produced a special issue of its newspaper, Socialist Democracy, this week, as mass protests take place against repressive police and the Buhari government. Below is the text of the […]

The military in Nigeria shot unarmed protesters at the Lekki toll plaza, in Lagos, earlier this week. Instead of taking action against the perpetrators, Nigerian President Buhari has remained silent. This follows a spontaneous mass […]

Anger at replacement of hated SARS police unit by Special Weapons and Tactics (Swat) units A renewed tidal wave of anger swept Nigeria after the police chief, Mohammed Adamu, announced that the now disbanded brutal, […]

The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) welcomes the news of the dissolution of the infamous Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) across the 36 state commands and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) by the Inspector General of Police […]

It will be 60 years on 1 October since Nigeria got its flag independence from Britain during the decolonisation process of Africa. Faced with increasing demands for independence throughout its African colonies, British imperialism moved […]

A visible wave of anger and disappointment from labour activists and those wanting to defend living standards swept Nigeria as news came out that the country’s trade union leaders had, at the last minute, ‘suspended’ […]

As Nigeria is hit by economic recession and Covid, protests are starting to develop against new added burdens of increases in fuel and electricity prices. These price hikes are just adding to the disillusionment and […]

The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) condemns the unjust arrest of members and journalists for protesting against anti-poor policies by the Buhari Government We demand for the immediate release of all arrested protesters We demand […]

Last year saw a split in and the re-foundation of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI), as outlined in ‘Rebuilding the CWI, Lessons and tasks‘. Since the July 2019 re-foundation conference, the debate which […]

The Nigerian federal government ordered the lockdown of Lagos, Abuja and Ogun State as a measure to contain the spread of coronavirus, with effect from March 31, 2020. Lagos is the epicentre of covid-19 in […]

Even though the figures are rising daily, it is not certain yet how disastrous the ravages of COVID-19 will be for Nigerians in terms of the number of infections and deaths. Economically, however, there is […]

Drop Trumped-up Charges, Recall Sacked Workers and End Slave Conditions in Sumal Foods   Abiodun Bamigboye (Abbey Trotsky), the acting National Chairperson of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN), is again due in court on […]

The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) vehemently condemns and rejects the action and decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to deregister the SPN and other seventy-three political parties, allegedly for failing to win […]

* SPN calls on the Buhari/APC Government to Provide Decent Jobs and Better Life in order to Curb Desperate Migration * SPN calls for the Unity of Nigerian and South African Working Masses to end […]

PRESIDENT BUHARI IS PAYING LIP SERVICE TO N30, 000 MINIMUM WAGE LABOUR SHOULD MOBILISE WORKERS FOR A ONE-DAY WARNING GENERAL STRIKE AND MASS PROTEST SPN DEMANDS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF N30, 000 MINIMUM WAGE FOR ALL […]

  As previously reported, the police in south-western Nigeria appear to be working hand in glove with the owners of Sumal Foods Limited (http://sumalfoods.com) to prevent its workforce winning gains and establishing a militant union presence […]

Comrade Abiodun Bamigboye is a leading member of Democratic Socialist Movement and acting National Chairperson of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN). He was also the Oyo state governorship candidate of the SPN during the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari is the winner of the 2019 presidential election, held on February 23, having officially had 15 miliion as against 11 million votes garnered by his capitalist main challenger Atiku Abubakar of the […]

Socialists raise banner of struggle  

We women in Nigeria live in utter privation. We still face oppression of various kinds both at home, work, schools and in society – such as the refusal to legalize abortion (abortion rights), divorce rights, […]

Court orders SPN be allowed to stand in elections.

"No Pay, No Work!"

Determined leadership and clear strategy needed to succeed

The ERC, the national student campaign linked to the DSM (CWI in Nigeria) is displaying its support for the student movement in Sudan

Working People Must Prepare to Struggle for improvement and Real Change

But only mass struggle can guarantee the interests of workers and poor masses under buhari’s presidency

Socialism or Barbarism

Boko Haram and the war in the north-east

The unreported Nigeria – mass struggles by the working class

Vigilance required from LASU students and workers to ensure that victory is permanent

Why has Boko Haram insurgency grown?

Can a solution to the insurgency be found under capitalism?

For democratic self-defence committees

Education Rights Campaign (ERC) calls for a day of mourning and mass protests

Failure of both international and local capitalist elite’s rule

Segun’s car damaged in attack

It is a Legalised Assault on Democratic Rights

Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) holds inaugural convention

Under the timetable of Nigeria’s current constitution, the working may have to endure the country’s rulers until the next general elections twenty months away!

Rejoinder to ‘Daily Trust’ fabrication

An expressway to attacks on democratic rights! For democratic mass working peoples’ defence committees!

15 DSM members arrested at May Day rallies

The last set of DSM members still in the detention of the state security service (SSS) in Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria, and Ibadan Oyo state, Southwest Nigeria, as of yesterday, has been released.

DSM comrades arrested and detained

University of Ibadan (UI): End victimisation of student activists! – Call for protest letters and solidarity

Lively meeting of party members and supporters elects Lagos state executive

Appeal for protest letters and solidarity

Angry, bitter and undeterred, hundreds of pensioners and activists rally in Lagos

"The crucial question now is not if or what, but how to begin immediately to build a Working class political alternative"

Over five activists have been arrested and are being brutalized by the Lagos State Police Command

Incurable socio-political crisis requires an urgent working class alternative

…Free education is a right, not a privilege!

Withdraw the troops from the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN)! Keep PHCN public under democratic control of workers and consumers

Struggle to defend children’s right and for a better society

For nation-wide union-led mass actions and a 48-hr general strike

Urgency of a working class alternative proven again

May Day should have offered opportunity for workers to pose their demands and agitation before the government

Build A Mass Movement To Fight For Jobs

Since last May Day, fierce battle between public sector workers and the capitalist ruling class of different shades and disguises have erupted.

A country stupendously rich in human and material resources on the world scale is virtually on the last scale of ladder of civilization and economic development.

A socialist view on recent showdown between government and people

Struggle forces Jonathan back a bit, but could have won far more with a more resolute leadership – We Condemn Repression by Police and Army

Pictures of the movement taken by DSM activists

Total shut down across the country as the working class shows it owns society

For a serious fight against President’s New Year "gift". No rotten compromise!

Diaspora protest against fuel subsidy removal

For all out mass action from 9 January!

Labour should declare two-days of mass actions including general strike and mass protests

Working masses must unite against descent into anarchy

For a two-day general strike now! No to retrenchment of workers!

Terrorism Takes Root in Nigeria amidst Deep Social and Economic Crisis

Workers must take the struggle to the next level

Daily increase in number of students, tremendous devotion from volunteer teachers

For Active Strike with a Series of Mass Activities

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.

New voters’ registration for election in April: Same old organisational and political problems

The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) condemns the occupation of the installations of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) by armed soldiers

The key issue is what choices are on offer? What do the different parties stand for and do any of them represent the interests of the working class, poor and those who oppose the corrupt […]

The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) wholeheartedly welcomes the decision of the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress to embark on a 3-day warning strike between November 10 and 12 to compel the government to […]

Labour movement should begin mass mobilisation immediately

A paper presented on September 28, 2010 by Segun Sango, DSM General Secretary, at the 21st Annual Education Conference of the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria

Can Nigeria experience positive development and improved living conditions?

Trade Unions must condemn the outrageous nomination fees, and actively build and fund the Party

Attackers and backers must be brought to justice – For an open, democratic investigation!

RELEASE SOCIALIST STUDENTS – STOP ATTACK ON DSM – SOLIDARITY NEEDED!

An Open Petition to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police

Key impact of international solidarity campaign

Free all Activists now and Prosecute the killer Police Officers!

Solidarity appeal

For a general strike and mass protest to defeat deregulation! For a fighting working peoples’ political alternative now!

Sharp working class policies and strategy needed to prevent total ruin

Video of Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria), speaking at a recent meeting of socialists from around the world, organised by the Socialist Party in London, Britain

Death of a workers’ leader

Working class solution urgently needed

Since Monday August 17, 5 workers of the Lagbus, one of the two companies that run BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) scheme in Lagos State, have been arrested and detained by the police at the behest […]

Call for change gain an echo among working class masses and youths

Call on labour leaders to declare a one-day solidarity general strike

10 years later, there is still a cry for justice

Struggle for decent public education continues

Release the arrested activists Now!

JTF must end the occupation now!!

Labour must say: No to deregulation and privatization!

No retrenchment, built in adjustment to match inflation.

Peaceful protest billed for January 12

Looting capitalist elite attempts to further attack working people

Only working class solution can hold Nigeria together in harmony and peace

Struggle for their re-instatement must commence now!

Deepening Socialist ideas in a period when capitalism is in crisis

National Broadcasting Commision’s Lagos office stormed.

Activists Clamped into Prison

Photos

Pro-capitalist governments cannot meet basic needs of working masses

Time for collective strike action and mass protests by entire workforce and youth

Actively mobilise trades unions, workers, parents and students to aid teachers’ action

Pay Teachers Adequate Wages Now!

Unions should call a day of solidarity action – A living wage for all workers now!

Labour must lead mass action to bring culprits to book

But battle not yet over

Genuine radicals should join struggle to build new workers’ party

Mass meeting of OAU students decides action

OAU students discussing next steps

Further reports of international solidarity picket and new plan

Simultaneous pickets demand their release and the dropping of all charges

Saburi’s bail denied in court

Worldwide embassy protests on Tuesday 23 October.Release Saburi Akande Akinola, Taiwo Hassan Soweto and Olatunde Dairo now!

Urgent appeal: Free OAU students now!

Release Taiwo Hassan, Tunde Dairo and Akinola Saburi! Now!

Between June 20 and June 23, 2007, Nigeria came to a complete halt as working people led the mass of the population in struggle against the latest attacks of the ruling robber elite.

Regime makes partial retreat, but fundamental issues remain unresolved

General strike enters third day

Labour leaders say action will continue but action must broadened

New regime faces mass working class opposition

Trade Unions issue 14 day ultimatum – but workers’ leaders must act decisively over new attacks

Internationally, a veil of silence has fallen over the blatant rigging of April’s elections in Nigeria, whose 140 million people are a quarter of Sub-Saharan Africa’s population.

Build Action Committees in workplaces and communities. Fight for real democracy, oust the looters

Open Letter to trade union and labour leaders

Dagga Tolar and other Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria) members detained by State security service

Dagga Tolar and other Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria) members detained by State security service

Build a mass working class alternative!

Decisive Action By Labour Needed Now!

A scientific evaluation of all the factors and forces involved in the just concluded as well as the forthcoming elections has clearly shown that the working masses cannot expect a fundamental improvement in their living […]

The blatant rigging and falsification of Nigeria’s April 14 State Governorship and Assembly elections has helped plunge the country, Africa’s largest, into crisis.

Corruption, gun fights and economic regression

The DSM has been invited to address the NLC’s 9th Delegate Conference which is being held in Abuja, the Federal capital, on February 15 and 16. Below is the goodwill message that the DSM sent […]

For the second time in a year in Lagos State and for the umpteenth time in the country as a whole, another tragic fire has resulted from a burst fuel pipeline claiming the lives and […]

Democratic Socialist Movement, press statement, August 11, 2006

Union federation supports NLC candidate

More than 80 % of the population oppose continuation of President Obasanjo’s rule

President of Nigeria Labour Congress recognises role played by Democratic Socialist Movement

Only a socialist solution can save working people

Five general strikes in five years and still Nigerian workers and youth continue their struggle against fuel price rises

The massive turn-out by Nigerians in their hundreds of thousands to a rally called by Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO) against the incessant increase in the fuel price and other neo-liberal, anti-poor polices of […]

The end August 30% rise in Nigerian fuel prices has provoked a renewed outburst of mass anger in Africa’s most populous country.

Marxists often state that counter-revolution invariably always act as the whiplash of revolution. This is the best way to interpret the easy manner with which some of the slogans which were raised by the DSM […]

Press statement of Lagos NCP

A socialist alternative is the only way out

An open memorandum to the national assembly concerning the June 30, 2005 Paris Club Deal

While Africa pays $15 billion yearly to service its debt to the rich nations and financial institutions, it receives less than $13 billion as aid with strings attached.

But government privatisations are corruption and theft on a huge scale

Mass action needed to stop anti-poor policy

Workers organisations must take decisive mass action now!

Workers’ movement needs to adopt independent, class policies

But Labour leaders participate in government’s sham ‘conference’

Workers’ fury at government’s failure to reverse fuel price hike

For the sixth time since June 2000 and for third time in year 2004 alone, the working people of Nigeria have resoundingly through nationwide general strikes and protests, expressed their total objection to the pro-rich, […]

What alternative to Obasanjo?

Five general strikes since June 2000!

Again, the pump prices of the petroleum products have been increased.

Nigeria has recently seen a brutal example of the link between anti-trade union court rulings and an onslaught on living standards.

Unions must defend rights

How To fight and defeat Obasanjo’s anti-poor, capitalist government

40th day political commemoration of the death of comrade Rotimi Ewebiyi.

All the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) in Nigeria members who were arrested last week in Lagos have now been released.

Today (7 July) two members of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), Ojo Olajire (OJ) and Peluola Adewale (Pelad), were arrested by members of Nigerian Police Force at Oshodi bus stop, in Oshodi Isolo local government […]

For three days, June 9 to 11, Nigeria came to an almost complete halt in the fourth general strike in four years as workers and the poor once again moved into action.

Following a life-time fully devoted to the emancipation of the working masses as a revolutionary socialist, organiser and class fighter.

The Committee for a Workers’ International deeply regrets to announce the death, at the age of 41, of Rotimi Ewebiyi, a leader of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) in Nigeria and a member of the […]

After a few days in Lagos I met Joseph, a socialist activist from Ghana, who, like me, had come to attend the conference of the Democratic Socialist Movement of Nigeria.

Midnight, January 21, is set for the start of an unlimited general strike in Nigeria.

The New Year has seen Nigeria gripped by a wave of anger following President Obasanjo’s sudden imposition of a new fuel tax.

The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) condemns the arrest and detention of six human rights and labour activists and the dispersal of a United Action for Democracy (UAD) rally by the Nigerian Police today Wednesday, 3rd […]

Reports on this website (see below) have given a vivid picture of the crisis facing Nigeria and the activities of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM, the cwi’s affiliate in Nigeria).

Workers prepare for action

The Democratic Socialist Movement calls for the immediate and unconditional release of the six labour leaders who were refused bail and sent to prison custody by an Abuja magistrate court on Tuesday, 14th October 2003.

The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) welcomes the reversal of the recent increase in the prices of petroleum products by the Federal Government and the oil marketing companies.

After eight days of grim heroic struggles, the Obasanjo government was forced to reduce the recent increment in fuel prices by 15%. Now petrol officially is to sell at N34 per litre instead of N40, […]

The eight-day Nigerian general strike, which ended on 8 July, was a marvellous demonstration of the strength of the working class and the weakness of the political class.

The Joint Action Council Against Hike In Fuel Price (JACAHFP) wishes to salute the Nigerian working people for their observation today of the nation-wide strike action called by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC)) and the […]

For the third time in just over four years the Obasanjo regime has again increased the pump price of petroleum products from N26 per litre for petrol to N40 per litre, while kerosene and diesel […]

We in the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) strongly condemn the callous, provocative, entirely insensitive and anti-poor fuel price increase just announced by the Obasanjo regime.

The authorities of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria, on Tuesday, 27th May 2003, suspended four student activists of the university for one session for leading mass protests against increments in school fees.

On 22nd April, 2003, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the re-election of President Olusegun Obasanjo, the candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for a second term. According to the electoral body, […]

Amid growing charges of vote rigging Olusegun Obasanjo seems to be on course to be declared winner of Nigeria’s bitterly contested 19 April Presidential election. How stable his rule will be is a very different […]

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Zone D, i.e. the coordinating organ of all Nigerian students in all tertiary institutions in the South-West states is using this medium to officially solidarise with millions of […]

At least 1,200 enthusiastic members and supporters of the National Conscience Party (NCP) attended a Lagos rally on 1 February 2003 launching the Nigerian election campaign of the Party. The NCP is the most radical […]

Rufus Olusesan, a worker, trade union activist, and DSM (Democratic Socialist Movement – CWI in Nigeria) member, was unjustly and arbitrarily sacked by the management of Nexans Kabelmetal Nigeria Plc, Ikeja, Lagos, who on 7 […]

Members of the National Conscience Party (NCP), including members of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), organised an all-Lagos demo on Wednesday 22 January against the sudden imposition of high "processing" fees for all election candidates. […]

A special congress of the Lagos State chapter of the National Conscience Party (NCP) was held in Lagos on Monday, 6 January 2003. The main purpose of the congress was to elect party candidates for […]

The Steel and Engineering Workers’ Union of Nigeria (SEWUN) picketed the Nexans’ Kabelmetal factory in Lagos on Friday 10 January 2003 to demand the reinstatement of Rufus Olusesan, a member of the Democratic Socialist Movement, […]

The registration of the National Conscience Party (NCP) and twenty-one other political parties by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) represents a major victory for the Nigerian working people in their struggle for democratic rights […]

AN INFLAMATORY Nigerian newspaper article connected to the Miss World contest sparked off bloody religious sectarianism in the northern city of Kaduna. The fighting later flared in the capital Abuja leaving 215 people dead, 1,200 […]

On Friday, November 8, 2002, the Supreme Court in a unanimous decision dismissed the appeal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against the Federal Court of Appeal judgement of 26th July 2002 which had […]

The 10 October 2002 judgement of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) conferring ownership of the oil-rich Bakassi peninsular on Cameroun has been received with shock and disbelief by many Nigerians, including ordinary working people.

The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), the Nigerian affiliate of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI), calls on the Nigerian working people and youth to oppose the planned military action by the US and its […]

A new, positive development in the struggle for a genuine multi-party democracy in the country took place on Friday, 26th July, 2002, when the Court of Appeal, sitting in Abuja, declared as unconstitutional, illegal, null […]

Farewell OAU. Welcome the AU! With enormous fanfair, pomp and pageantry, the African Union (AU), the new continental body being established by African states, was launched in Durban, South Africa, on 15th July, 2002. The […]

The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) calls on the Nigerian working people, labour and youth organisations and activists to rise up to fight the recent decision by the so-called Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to register […]

The Nigerian electoral commission (INEC) has refused recognition to the National Conscience Party, the radical party led by Gani Fawehinmi. This is an attempt to prevent it taking place in the coming round elections for […]

In a few weeks time, it will be three years since the military were forced out of power. Looking back, it has been a period of pains and pangs for most layers of the working […]

On the 31st of May, 2002, thirty-two countries will begin a competition to determine who wins the World Cup, a trophy to determine the best footballing nation in the world so to say. While Nigeria […]

The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) wishes to express its profound sympathy with thousands of Nigerians who lost relatives and properties or sustained injuries as a result of the bomb explosions which took place at the […]

The indefinite general strike called by the Nigerian Labour Congress against the recent fuel price hike announced by the Obasanjo regime has been suspended after two days. The reason given by the NLC leadership was […]

Nigeria has been paralysed by a general strike called by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC, the country’s main trade union federation).

The latest increase in the prices of petroleum products by the Obasanjo government has justifiably been received with opposition and condemnation by most working people across Nigeria.

The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) observes with great concern the sharp increase in religious and ethnic sentiments and tension in Nigeria in the aftermath of the 11th September terrorist attacks in the US and the […]

Gentlemen of the press, this press conference is organised by  the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) to draw the attention of the general public and the working masses in particular to some recent dangerous and ominous […]

The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) is deeply worried by the spate of ethnic violence and killings which have rocked some parts of the country in the past few days.

At around 4.30 a.m. on Saturday, 10th July, an armed gang made up of members of pro-authority secret cults drawn from several tertiary institutions invaded the campus of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, on […]

It is now common knowledge that I spent twenty agonising days in undue incarceration at the state police Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Iyaganku, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, courtesy of a totally false petition written by […]

The CWI section in Nigeria – the Democratic Socialist Movement – Under Serious Attack.

The recent Nigerian Presidential election was widely reported in the world’s media as an important step towards the restoration of "democracy" in that country, Africa’s largest with a population of around 120 million. The holding, […]