Unequal Exchange and Foreign Investment In Nigeria
Unequal exchange in international trade allows advanced capitalist countries to exploit developing countries like Nigeria. It represents a key economic mechanism of capitalist imperialism....
Beyond Doyin Okupe: LP, Workers, Trade Unions, and the Left
“Doyin Okupe dumps Labour Party” was the screaming headline of one of the major dailies on 8 January. This was quite an apt one,...
The Politics of Capitalists Are Based on Lies
“The history of all hitherto existing societies is a history of class struggle”.
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Nation-states emerged with force as creations of a local ruling...
AI & Job loss: How Capitalism is Weaponising Knowledge Against Workers
There is a new wave of research and development in the technological advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The birth of ChatGPT appears to mark a...
Labour Party Does Not Stand for Workers
The 2023 elections throw up the question; what type of party do the working class and other exploited people need to liberate themselves and...
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)...
WE CAN’T CONTINUE LIKE THIS!
The past few years have been burdensome for the vast majority of Nigerians. Life has become one nightmare after another. But traditional politicians and...
A Decade of Resistance
The working people rose in their millions in January 2012 to resist the 120% increase in fuel pump price that the PDP government gave...
CORE Organizes Political Education for Activists
On Saturday, 26 February 2022, the first batch of activists from affiliates of the Coalition for Revolution (CORE) commenced the first, in a series...
WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
The poor masses in Nigeria have never had things so bad. Poverty, insecurity, corruption, and repression have become the order of the day. But...
The National Question and Self-determination in Nigeria
As we reported in the last edition of Socialist Worker, the revival of separatist politics has again brought heated discussions on the national question...
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH FIGHTBACK NOW!
The poor masses across the country are fed up. Despite abundant wealth from our sweat and the abundance of resources on our lands, over...
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SWL Statement on Two Years of the Tinubu Regime
Over the last two years, crises of immense proportions reinforced by the fundamentalist neoliberal policies of the APC-led government of Bola Ahmed Tinubu have...
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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...