International Socialist Tendency Statement on the Italian Elections
The victory of the parties of the right in the Italian elections means that for the first time since the fall of the dictatorships...
The Nigerian Youth and Political Power
The fourth republic has failed. Over the past 23 years, the working people in Nigeria have witnessed drastic decreases in their incomes. A disgraceful...
ASUU’s Struggle Is Our Collective Struggle
The strike action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has now lasted for seven months. Unfortunately, there is no end in sight...
The Nigerian Economic Development
“Development is not simply economic growth”, argues Alpha J. Marshall, a member of the SWL and convener of the More Action Less Talk (MALT)...
This Obedience They Hail
Obedience in itself is not always wrong. I think one way or the other, we all respond to the law of nature. By extension,...
Aviation Unions Protest Anti-Labour Clauses
On Monday 12 September, aviation sector workers protested in large numbers in airports across the country. The nationwide demonstration was to demand the removal...
Her Imperialist Majesty Elizabeth Was Not Our Friend
When people do not know their history or it is told by their slave masters, colonizers or mis-rulers, they praise their killers and torturers...
Ekweremadu’s Organ Harvesting Case & the Rest of Us
The London Metropolitan Police arrested Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice Ekweremadu in London and arraigned them at the Uxbridge Magistrate’s Court on...
Ogun Strike: Rank-and-file Boo Leaders, Worker Slumps & Dies
Scores of workers converged at the Nigerian Labour Congress’ Ogun state council secretariat in Abeokuta for a ‘workers parliament’ this afternoon. The trade union...
Melilla Massacre: Matters Arising
At least 37 people were killed last Friday, in Melilla, one of the two Spanish enclaves in North Africa, with land borders into Europe....
Ogun State Workers Begin Indefinite Strike
Workers shut down the Ogun state secretariat, public schools, and other state government-owned establishments in Abeokuta and some other parts of the state on...
SWL Demands #JusticeForDeborah
The Socialist Workers and Youth League (SWL) condemns the gruesome murder of Deborah Samuel Yakubu in the most categorical of terms and demands that...
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History of Women’s Oppression
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