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Today makes it twenty-one years since Comrade Ola Oni passed on. He was one of the greatest leaders and teachers on the Nigerian Left,...
CORE Charter for Total Liberation
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Whereas Nigeria is a rich country, we, the masses are poor. Living standards have become progressively worse over the last four decades due to...
Fighter to the End; Adieu Iturity
The death of Ayodele Akele marks the loss of one of the fiercest and most consistent class fighters in Nigeria, over the last four...
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Africa was the last region of the world to be sucked into the pandemic and thus far appears to be the least affected. By...
The Crises And Struggle Today; What Is At Stake?
We are living through a period of severe generalised crisis of capitalism. In the words of Joseph Stiglitz, the Noble Laurette and Keynesian economist,...
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For the first time in four decades, Nigerian workers will mark May Day without parades and fanfare. Most of us will be at home,...
Nothing Can Stop an Idea Whose Time Has Come: #RevolutionNOW
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the federal high court in Abuja wrote his name with the ink of ignominy into the history books on 12...
Herder-Farmer Clashes: A Call for Working People’s Unity
The herder-farmer clashes have been treated in a simple ahistorical manner by most of the media in a way that demonizes the Fulani. But,...
100 Years On: Luxembourg & Liebknecht Live!
Rosa Luxembourg & Karl Liebknecht were murdered a 100 years ago on the orders of Gustav Noske, the self-declared "bloodhound" of reaction in the...
Nigerian workers, minimum wage and capitalism
The amount determined as a minimum wage has political, economic and social importance. Minimum wages are not simply products of negotiation. There are many...
Samir Amin – the loss of a Prolific Writer
The Egyptian-French economist and writer Samir Amin died in August 2018. Although he wrote many useful books, his view of socialism and class struggle...
Karl Marx for Changing the World
Karl Marx was born in the German town of Tiers on 5 May 1818. The body of ideas and method of critique to understand,...
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