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The Socialist Workers League (SWL) salutes Take It Back movement for the gallant mobilisation and organising it put into the nationwide #April7Protest organised by...
Mass Struggles, Organised Labour and the Left in 21st Century Nigeria
Working-class people and youths have waged struggles of great significance over the last twenty-five years. These have been mass resistance that transformed into counter-offensives...
Ushie Rita Uguamaye and the NYSC controversy: A Reflection on Systemic Issues
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Rivers State: SWL Says No To Militarisation, Demands Reversal of State of Emergency
The Socialist Workers League (SWL) expressed its unequivocal opposition to the state of emergency imposed on Rivers State by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and...
This Hardship Is Too Much: FIGHTBACK!
The living conditions of working-class people in Nigeria keep getting worse, while a handful of rich people keep getting richer. The situation has pushed...
IBB’s Memoir, Working-Class People & History
Much public discussion has followed the launch of Ibrahim Babangida’s memoir. The book titled A Journey in Service is an apologetic attempt at falsification...
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Could Cooperatives Be Anti-neoliberal Laboratories?
A shortage of disciplined members and a lack of finances are two related challenges that plague left movements and parties in the neoliberal period....
Kendrick Lamar, Black Celebrity Radicals & Us
Kendrick Lamar has dominated the entertainment headlines in recent months. This is in large part due to his feud with Drake that sprang from...
Patriarchy and Power: Gender, Class, Politics and the Senate
An ugly story of power and allegations of sexual harassment began unveiling in the fine mahogany-finished walls of Nigeria’s Legislative Chambers in the last...
Egbetokun, Cybercrime Act and the Sham Trial of Sowore
The repressive machinery of the Nigerian state has once again barred its fangs at Omoyele Sowore, Convener of the revolutionary Take It Back global...
Imperialism, Capitalism and the Crisis in Haiti
Haiti was the first country in the world where enslaved people defeated their slavers, liberated themselves and established a republic in 1804. But crises...
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The 1989 Anti-SAP Revolt
In 1989, thousands rose in protest against the IMF and World Bank-inspired Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP). This supported the lavish lifestyles of corrupt government...