Message of solidarity from Communist Party of Swaziland to workers of Nigeria

The Communist Party of Swaziland extends its solidarity and militant greetings to the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress and through them to the workers of Nigeria on their important mass actions.

The workers involved in strike action, and supportive measures for it, cover a broad spectrum of the working population. Their actions come at a time of heightened tension and struggle in Nigeria in which the main victims of violent sectarianism and worsening instability are the workers and the poor.

The hike in petrol prices represents an anti-working class and anti-poor imposition, the context of which is pressure from the anti-people International Monetary Fund and World Bank to remove the fuel subsidy that had kept petrol prices affordable for ordinary people.

This struggle of the Nigerian labour movement must necessarily draw the solidarity of progressive organizations and individuals from across the African continent and beyond. The success of the workers in Nigeria is of crucial importance to the success of parallel anti-capitalist struggles in Africa, which is increasingly a terrain nowadays for intensified imperialist intervention, exploitation and manipulation.

The CPS calls on communist and workers parties in other countries, particularly in Africa, and on all solidarity organizations to add their voice to the struggle of the Nigerian labour movement at this critical time.

Love live the Nigerian labour movement !

Long live African unity for socialism !

Long live working class internationalism !