Afriques en Lutte

Who are the hoodlums in Nigeria ?

SWL (Nigeria) — 2012-01-19T21:08:00Z

In the past few days, the Federal and state governments have tried to find a straw man to bear the responsibility for the turbulence they stirred, in ways and manners to break the collective of citizens rising against the system they represent and its insensitive policies such as “deregulation” & “removal of fuel subsidy”. The straw man's other name is “vagabond”. Several top functionaries of the Federal Government have cried themselves hoarse that the streets have been seized by (…)

- Nigeria / Analyse

Nigeria : The state versus the People

SWL (Nigeria) — 2012-01-14T11:21:00Z

The Federal Government declared war on Nigerians on New Year day, with its 120% hike in fuel price. With heads held high, the people gallantly rose across the country in stiff resistance, immediately. The resistance snowballed into a General Strike and series of escalating Mass Protests of historic proportions, with over ten million Nigerians demonstrating in more than 50 cities and towns within the country and no less than a dozen cities across Africa, Europe and the Americas. After nine (…)

- Nigeria / communiqués partis amis et associations, luttes ouvrières

Nigeria : NO TO FUEL PRICE HIKE !

SWL (Nigeria) — 2012-01-13T11:22:00Z

The Federal Government set the country ablaze with its over 100% increase of petrol price on January 1. In a matter of days, massive demonstrations have rocked more than a dozen cities, shaking the country to its foundations ; and this is just the beginning ! NLC & TUC have declared an indefinite general strike & mass protests from January 9, if the increment is not reversed.
Unfolding before our eyes is a revolution with which we would change our fate, breaking the bondage of our (…)

- Nigeria / luttes ouvrières

Nigeria : Founding Convention of the SOCIALIST WORKERS' LEAGUE

SWL (Nigeria) — 2011-03-30T12:05:00Z

Introduction
The Socialist Workers' Movement and the Socialist League : being groups of revolutionary socialists in Nigeria who have been separately identified with international socialist politics, over the last two decades ; realizing the pressing need to unify and build the forces of workers and youths committed to forging a platform of struggle that will be unrelenting, unapologetic and ever consistent in defending and inspiring the working class ; noting the rising tide of the (…)

- Nigeria