Imperatives of Development for Working People
Reduced spending on public health, education and welfare services have placed greater burden on the working class-people. The struggle to improve the quality and...
The Soweto Uprising & the Continued Traumatization of “the Nation”
On June 16, 1976 Hastings Ndlovu, Hector Pieterson and twenty one other children were mowed down by the hate-filled bullets of the apartheid state...
International Women’s Day has Socialist Roots
March 8 is now universally marked as International Women’s Day, a cross the world. But what is not commonly known is that, the origins...
Gambo Sawaba (1933-2001)
Sawaba had little formal education, as she was brought up in the northern part of Nigeria where women were discouraged and their education neglected. ...
Eskor Toyo: Exit of A Revolutionary
Prof Eskor Toyo, fondly called “the Lenin of Africa” by his close associates, died in December, aged 86 years. He had been bedridden for...
“We All Stand Before History”
“Silence would be treason”
- Kenule Saro-Wiwa (Oct. 10, 1941-Nov. 10, 1990)
by Baba Aye
The world was shocked when General Sani Abacha ordered the execution of Kenule...
African Socialism and its Discontents
by Peter Adejobi
Even before the modern idea of socialism emerged in Africa, during the anti-colonial struggles, Africans have been equipped with the ideology of...
Change and the Left in Nigeria: Problems and Prospects for the Labour Movement
by Baba Aye
“...for there can be no socialist change and therefore no real freedom and democracy where there is not a large body of...
Chima Ubani: Marytr of the People, 10 Years Gone!
by Baba Aye
Chima Ubani died in a car accident with Tunji Oyeleru, the Vanguard photo-editor on September 21, 2005 at Potiskum, he was just...
Nigeria: The Six Year Revolution
June 12; significance and lessons for the working class*
by Baba Aye
Introduction
Twenty two years ago, what has been described as “the freest and fairest elections”...
TRIBUTE: Celebrating Segun Osoba of Struggle
By Kunle Wizeman Ajayi
Dr Segun Osobamiro, a history teacher and revolutionary socialist of the Ife Collective was prominent in the 1970s. He submitted a...
MAY DAY 2015 and Nigerian workers
by BabaAye
As Nigeria workers join workers across the world to commemorate May Day 2015, we need to collectively reflect on the significance of the...
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