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24 November 2005
AROUND 500 people joined the demonstration called in Manchester by unions and asylum support groups...
30 June 2005
Workers and poor rise up against poverty
THE G8 countries' debt relief programme is soaked in cynicism and hypocrisy. ...
6 November 2004
Fourth general strike in ten months in Nigeria
FACED WITH the Nigerian government's refusal to reverse September's 25% jump in fuel prices Nigeria's trades unions and radical opposition have called another general strike on 16 November - the seventh since June 2000...
23 October 2004
Nigeria: BETWEEN 11 and 14 October, for the third time this year, the overwhelming majority of Nigerians showed their opposition to the continual rise in fuel prices in a totally effective four-day general strike...
16 October 2004
'Solid' General Strike in Nigeria Shows Fury At Elite
NIGERIA'S FIFTH general strike since June 2000 stopped the entire country when the four-day stoppage started on 11 October. This protest was again provoked by a jump in fuel prices...
2 October 2004
Oil Prices Break $50 A Barrel Mark
WORLD OIL prices continue to rise with the price of US light crude breaking the $50 a barrel mark for a period last week - its highest price for 21 years...
18 September 2004
Nigerian Workers Must Fight Anti-Union Law
ON 9 September the Nigerian Senate passed, at record speed, a draft law proposed by President Obasanjo. If implemented, it would severely weaken Nigeria's trade unions...
19 June 2004
General Strike Stops Nigeria But Union Leaders Have No Answers
FOR THREE days, 9-11 June, Nigeria came to an almost complete halt in the fourth general strike in four years as workers and poor once again moved into action...
12 June 2004
Obituary - Rotimi Ewebiyi (1963-2004)
THE COMMITTEE for a Workers' International (CWI) 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 CWI's International Executive Committee (IEC)...
3 April 2004
CWI Appeal: Nigeria Members Arrested
Members of the Democratic Socialist Movement, our section in South Africa contacted us yesterday to report the violent breakup of a peaceful protest against housing conditions and the subsequent arrest of 14 demonstrators from Mount Moriah, outside Durban.
22 November 2003
CWI - Building Socialism Worldwide
THE SOCIALIST Party is a member of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) which has sister organisations in more than 36 countries across the globe, writes Tanja Niemeier.
18 October 2003
Nigeria: General Strike Suspended After Government Backs Down
IN LATE September, Nigerians were outraged when the government suddenly deregulated the price of fuel leading to an immediate 15% jump in prices...
12 July 2003
Nigeria: Leaders End Mighty General Strike
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, writes Robert Bechert, Committee for a Workers' International (CWI).
5 July 2003
Fuel price rises provoke general strike in Nigeria
NIGERIA CAME to a halt on 30 June as millions supported the general strike called by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) in protest at a massive 54% fuel price rise...
26 April 2003
Nigerian presidential elections Obasanjo's Poisoned Victory
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...
7 December 2001
Building The Forces Of International Socialism
THE Executive Committee of the CWI (Committee for a Workers' International - the international socialist organisation to which the Socialist Party is affiliated) recently met in Belgium...
14 July 2000
Nigerian workers' leader kidnapped
THE BEGINNING of July saw dramatic developments in the struggle for a higher minimum wage in Nigeria.(see below)...
16 June 2000
Nigeria: General strike wins big concessions
ABSOLUTELY SOLID. That has been the impact of the general strike against the Nigerian government's 50% rise in oil prices which began on 8 June. Across the country workers and students have taken the...
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