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25 August 2021
Nigeria: Comrade Omomeewa, student leader and socialist campaigner, killed by armed assailants
Tragically, a leading member of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM - CWI in Nigeria), Nurudeen Alowonle, aka Omomeewa, was murdered leaving Lagos State University (LASU) late in the evening on 18 August.
24 February 2021
Nigeria: Abbey Trotsky on trial for assisting workers' struggle
Socialist Party members protested outside the Nigerian Embassy in central London on 22 February to protest against the 'show trial' of Abbey Trotsky - a leading member of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM - CWI in Nigeria) - that was taking place that day
4 November 2020
Leeds protesters demand "Buhari must go!"
For the second weekend in a row, protesters gathered in Leeds in solidarity with the #EndSARS protests in Nigeria
28 October 2020
Frustration, disappointment, poverty, and anger exploded into a mighty mass movement
28 October 2020
"We need a leadership that comes from the movement"
Socialist Party organiser Tessa Warrington discussed the anti-SARS protests with a Nigerian student at De Montfort University, Leicester, who is co-organiser of the #EndSARS solidarity protest.
28 October 2020
Solidarity with the movement in Nigeria
The organisers of the Birmingham protest against Nigeria's notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars) police units emphasised that the event was peaceful, with no "attacks on anybody's character"
14 October 2020
Nigeria: Mass protests force government to disband killer cop unit
The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM - CWI in Nigeria) welcomes the news of the dissolution of the infamous and loathed Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) by the Inspector General of Police (IGP)
30 September 2020
Still crawling at 60: Capitalism has failed Nigeria
It will be 60 years on 1 October since Nigeria got its flag independence from Britain during the decolonisation process of Africa
16 September 2020
Nigerian police repress peaceful anti-government protest
On 10 September, Nigerian police arrested members of the Socialist Party of Nigeria and journalists.
Unison general secretary candidate and Socialist Party member Hugo Pierre, left, supporting a UCU picket line in February 2020
13 July 2020
23 October 2019
Which way forward for the working people and youth of Nigeria?
Come hear about the struggle for a mass party of the working class and a socialist programme in Nigeria
11 September 2019
South Africa: Xenophobic violence - a product of failed capitalist policies
The Socialist Party of Nigeria condemns the raging xenophobic attacks in South Africa which have affected Nigerians alongside other African migrants in South Africa.
12 June 2019
Nigeria: Stop police harassment of Abbey and Azeez!
Abiodun Bamigboye (Abbey Trotsky) - a member of the Socialist Party's sister organisation in Nigeria, the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) - has been arrested by Nigerian police again and again and again.
21 May 2019
Nigeria: Action needed to free Abiodun Bamigboye!
Update 22.5.19: Abiodun, a member of Democratic Socialist Movement in Nigeria, has now been released
23 January 2019
Reports from strikes and struggle in the USA, Nigeria, Russia, France, Tunisia, Zimbabwe and the Spanish state
9 January 2019
Blocked for years, but the Socialist Party of Nigeria is now standing in elections
After years of campaigning to be officially recognised, the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN - launched by the Democratic Socialist Movement and others) is able to stand in elections.
8 April 2015
Nigeria: Ruling party crumbles in historic election
Without doubt the 28 March presidential election was a major turning point for Nigeria. For the first time in the country's 55 year existence as an independent country, a ruling party was roundly defeated in an election
A general strike against fuel price hikes in Nigeria
19 November 2014
Unreported Nigeria: Class struggle and inequality
When Nigeria is mentioned in the British press it is usually to report the horrors of Boko Haram’s latest terrorist attack or the - at least for now - successful battle against Ebola. However, there is another side to Nigeria - the magnificent history of struggle by the working class
Health workers in Liberia have been on strike demanding better protection from Ebola virus and improved pay
10 September 2014
Ebola virus: Victims of a failed capitalist system
Infectious bodies rotting in the streets... health care facilities overwhelmed... health workers dying in shocking numbers. These horrific scenes are spreading across West Africa
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