Support for the Socialist Left is Rising – but the Path is not smooth
Over the last year or so we have seen an inspiring increase in support for socialists, especially with the contest for the Democratic Party...
The State Only Protects the Rich – it does not protect us!
It is popularly claimed that we need the state, the army, police and prisons to protect us from criminals and terrorists. But the state...
Muhammad Ali: the People’s Champion
Muhammad Ali was born on January 17, 1942 in Lousville, Kentucky as Cassius Marcellus Clay. He started training as a boxer at the age of 12. This...
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...
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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...