  latest news
12/11/2011: Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary, interviewed on Al Jazeera
11/11/2011: Gaza Flotilla activists abducted in international waters and illegally
held for 7 days by the Israeli state
11/11/2011: “Clarity of ideas, visionary strategy, combined with an astute tactical
appreciation of the critical need to raise the mass consciousness of the
working class.”
11/11/2011: “A journey of a thousand miles begins”
11/11/2011: "A ’No Cannes Do’ summit"
10/11/2011: Debt crisis hits Eurozone’s third largest economy
10/11/2011: Government ministers "have not uttered a single word of protest in
public in response to this outrage"
10/11/2011: Activists face “harassment, humiliating body searches, being shackled”
09/11/2011: Breaking News: 7 detainees to be "released" tomorrow, followed by Paul
Murphy MEP on Friday
09/11/2011: Hundreds sign protest condemning Nazarbayev dictatorship and demanding
democratic rights
08/11/2011: Israeli authorities delay deportation, continue imprisonment
08/11/2011: New ’National unity’ government = ‘austerity coalition’
08/11/2011: Rich hoard wealth - Fight for a socialist future!
08/11/2011: And vow that the struggle goes on
08/11/2011: Tents back up in Seattle as the Occupy Wall Street movement scores
another big victory
07/11/2011: Demand the immediate release of all the detainees now!
05/11/2011: "Follow Oakland’s example: For mass actions to fight against cuts and
foreclosures"
04/11/2011: For a socialist, internationalist solution
04/11/2011: Flotillas blocked and activists detained – Send protests urgently!
04/11/2011: Government’s policies will plunge society into Greek style crisis
04/11/2011: Ship radio communication cut
04/11/2011: A list of opposition activists led by the LSR (CWI in Brazil) will
contest the second round of elections for the leadership of the largest
union of sanitation workers in Latin America.
03/11/2011: Left Alliance joins Conservative led government – Time to build radical,
left alternative!
02/11/2011: Breaking News: New freedom flotilla enters international waters
02/11/2011: Occupiers’ call for a “general strike” finds positive echo in labor
movement
02/11/2011: Labour had a good day in Presidential and by-election polls but it’s all
down hill from here
01/11/2011: Most vicious attack on unions in 13 years
01/11/2011: Study finds 1% of corporations control world economy
31/10/2011: But battles still to wage
31/10/2011: What should the next step be for the ’Occupy’ movement
30/10/2011: Review of “Too much luck” by Paul Cleary
29/10/2011: New laws to repress social protest
28/10/2011: Election ‘success story’ masks growing anger from below
27/10/2011: Siritunga Jayasuriya, secretary of the United Socialist Party (CWI) Sri
Lanka, has made a stinging public attack on the regime of Mahinda
Rajapaksa while in Australia at the same time as the president.
27/10/2011: Condemn brutal attack on media freedom, Solidarity needed!
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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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|  30/11/2010, The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) condemns the
occupation of the installations of Power Holding Company of Nigeria
(PHCN) by armed soldiers
Victor Osakwe, National Secretary of the Campaign
for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR)
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|  12/11/2010, 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 ruling class?
Democratic Socialist Movement
(CWI Nigeria)
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|  09/11/2010, 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 implement the minimum wage of N18,000 (120 US-$).
Democratic Socialist Movement
(CWI Nigeria)
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|  02/11/2010, Labour movement should begin mass mobilisation immediately
DSM Statement by Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist
Movement (CWI in Nigeria)
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|  06/10/2010, 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
Segun Sango, DSM (CWI Nigeria)
General Secretary
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|  02/09/2010, Can Nigeria experience positive development and improved living
conditions?
From October 2010 edition of Socialist Democracy, paper of the
Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria)
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|  11/08/2010, Trade Unions must condemn the outrageous nomination fees, and actively
build and fund the Party
Peluola Adewale, DSM (CWI
Nigeria)
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| 22/07/2010, Attackers and backers must be brought to justice - For an open,
democratic investigation!
Taiwo Hassan Soweto, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria) |
| 14/07/2010, RELEASE SOCIALIST STUDENTS - STOP ATTACK ON DSM - SOLIDARITY NEEDED!
Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in
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Further articles on '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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