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18 January 2012
Nigeria: Fuel strike suspended
Nigeria's trade union leaders called off the unions' week-long general strike after the government agreed to partially reinstate the cancelled fuel subsidy...
Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) in Nigeria, sister party of the Socialist Party in the UK, , photo by DSM
11 January 2012
Nigeria shut down at start of indefinite general strike
Nigeria has been gripped by widespread anger and protest since the sudden New Year's Day announcement of a more than doubling in the price of fuel; something which hits not just transport of people and goods but also fuel for the generators people need for electricity and fuel for cooking...
4 January 2012
Nigeria: Boko Haram's Christmas Day bombings
Among the more audacious previous attacks of Boko Haram were the bombings of the National Police headquarters and the United Nations office in the capital, Abuja, writes Segun Sango, General secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM - CWI, Nigeria).
Gulf of Mexico oil spill spirals towards New Orleans, photo NASA Earth Observatory image
12 May 2010
Gulf of Mexico disaster: nationalise the oil giants
AFTER THE explosion which sank the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, causing eleven deaths and threatening an environmental catastrophe, many people must be wondering what is to be done with the oil companies - not least the relatives of the workers killed in the explosion, writes Pete Mason.
8 April 2010
Nigeria: Ajegunle Police Killings Update 2: Police Arrest Dagga Tolar and two others today
Press statement from the Democratic Socialist Movement (the Nigerian sister party of the Socialist Party): Police today April 7, 2010 arrested Dagga Tolar, the Secretary of the Lagos state chapter of Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO) and a member of Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), Akpos Okoro, community activist and Aderemi Ismail, community activist and organizer, Ajegunle Branch of DSM...
27 January 2010
In a renewed 'scramble for Africa', the continent is again a competing arena for all the big powers globally - China, the US, the EU, Russia...
15 December 2009
Video/Audio: International meeting of socialists from around world
London Socialist Party held an international meeting of socialists from around the world. Here are Video and audio files of their speeches...
4 November 2008
If Obama wins - Looking beyond the hope bubble
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US president Barack Obama supporter, photo Paul Mattsson |
29 November 2007
In brief: Who safeguards safety?
THE COURTS disqualify company directors who risk cash hundreds of times more often than directors who risk people's health and safety, says the Health and Safety Executive...
29 November 2007
THE CAMPAIGN continues to defend the detained Nigerian student activists, Olatunde Dairo, Taiwo Hassan Soweto and Akinola Sakuri...
14 November 2007
Release Nigerian students now!
Three Nigerian student activists from Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife, are still in jail on made up charges.
8 November 2007
Free detained Nigerian students
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Protest at the UK Nigerian embassy, photo Marc Vallee |
1 November 2007
Nigeria: Day of action protest march in Osogbo
AS PART of the ongoing international campaign to free the detained student leaders from Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) and Education Rights Campaign (ERC) organised a protes... By a correspondent in Nigeria
25 October 2007
Release Saburi Akande Akinola, Taiwo Hassan Soweto and Olatunde Dairo now
Nigeria: Student leaders framed on murder charges: THREE STUDENT leaders of a major Nigerian university are being held in prison on trumped-up charges of conspiracy to murder...
17 October 2007
Students on trumped-up charges
Nigeria: THREE NIGERIAN student activists from Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ife Ife, are in jail on made-up charges including conspiracy to murder and attempted murder....
11 October 2007
Darfur bloodshed fuelled by land and oil grab
A CONSTRUCTION boom fuelled by oil revenues is sweeping through Khartoum, the capital of Sudan... By Alison Hill
28 June 2007
Nigeria: Four-day general strike ends
THE LATEST general strike in Nigeria ended on 23 June when the trade union leaders accepted a government offer that granted most, but not all, of their demands....
2 May 2007
Nigeria: The Nigerian government, fearing mass protests against its blatant rigging of the April 14 state and April 21 national elections, attempted to clamp down on any sign of active opposition at the May 1 rallies
26 April 2007
Nigerian elections - a dangerous farce
EVEN BY the standards of Nigeria's previous elections this April's state and national elections were a complete farce....
11 January 2007
The Lagos oil pipeline tragedy was avoidable
Nigeria letter: IMMEDIATELY AFTER the devastating oil pipeline explosion on Boxing Day in Lagos, Nigeria, in which 265 mainly poor people were killed, the Democratic Socialist Movement, (DSM - the Socialist Party's counterpart in Nigeria) i...
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