Nigeria’s Power Sector Crisis: Privatisation, Tariffs, and the Failure of Neoliberal Reform
More than a decade after the privatisation of Nigeria’s electricity generation and distribution sectors, the promise that private capital would deliver reliable and affordable...
LAUTECH Must Stop Attempts To Suppress Nurse Olamide Thomas
The management of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) has resorted to intimidation, suppression and violation of the democratic rights of Nurse Olamide Thomas....
Sowore Vs Police: Victory for Consistency of Struggle
Socialist Workers League (SWL) welcomes the 20 February landmark judgment by the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, in favour of Omoyele Sowore, National...
An Examination of the Impact of the Nigeria Tax Act, 2025 on Working-Class Nigerians
Introduction
The Bola Tinubu-led APC government has made a sweeping overhaul of Nigeria’s tax laws, amid a deepening cost-of-living crisis. This is a peak of...
Nigeria: Beyond Trump’s Air Strikes
Nigerians woke up on Boxing day to the news of a “Christmas present” from the United States. In a series of air strikes, tomahawk...
Socialist Workers League (SWL) Condemns the Brutal Demolition and Forced Evictions in Oworonshoki: Housing...
The Socialist Workers League (SWL) strongly condemns the ongoing demolition and forced evictions in Oworonshoki, Lagos. What we are witnessing is not urban renewal...
Police Assault on Omoyele Sowore – Enough Is Enough: The People Will Not Be...
The Socialist Workers League (SWL) condemns the arrest of Comrade Omoyele Sowore by the Nigerian state. What happened on the grounds at the Kuje...
Stop State Terrorism! Stop the Repression!! Free Nnamdi Kanu Now! Justice for #EndSARS!!
The Socialist Workers League condemns the unbridled reign of terror by the Nigerian state, which has reached great heights under the APC regime. We...
SWL Mourns Aremson with Clenched Fists
It is a moment of mourning for the labour movement in Nigeria. The left lost one of its most tenacious fighters and leaders with...
The Myth of Liberal Democracy
At the end of the Cold War, Francis Fukuyama, a leading liberal philosopher, wrote a book titled The End of History and the Last...
SWL Backs NLC’s Call for Halving of Public Officeholders Salaries
SWL condemns the proposal of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) to increase the remuneration of public officeholders in the strongest of...
On ASUU and Concern for Its Members Welfare
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