Afriques en Lutte

Workers in Chad Show Fight Against an Increase in the Price of Fuel and Other Issues

Drew Povey — 2024-03-26T11:00:00Z

There was a widely supported general strike in Chad that lasted for a month from 20th February, 2024. This was over the military government increasing the price of fuel by 40% in the middle of February and the coming to an end of the three year social pact between some trade unions and the government without many agreed actions having been implemented. Indefinite strikes were also held more briefly in the education and health sectors from mid-March.
Trade unions and civil society called on (…)

- Tchad / luttes ouvrières

General Strike in Chad

Drew Povey — 2024-03-20T04:00:00Z

There is a widely supported general strike in Chad from 20th February. This was in reaction to the military government increasing the price of fuel by 40% in the middle of February and the coming to an end of the three year social pact between the trade unions and the government. Indefinite strikes are also being held in the education and health sectors starting from mid-March.
Trade unions and civil society called on all workers in both the public and private sectors to stop working to (…)

- Tchad / luttes ouvrières

Do We Ever Support Military Coups ?

Drew Povey — 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z

Parliamentary democracy is now seen as the best way to rule countries. But this acceptance of democracy by the capitalist ruling class is a relatively new development. In the 19th century the British ruling class had a long fight against extending the vote to poor people. It was only in the middle of the 20th century that women were allowed to vote in France, for example. Even later, democracy was extended to the colonies, often only after they had gained independence.
Military coups are (…)

- Livres Etudes Débats

Operation Barkhane or Destructive Impotence in the Sahel

Drew Povey, Paul Martial — 2022-02-04T21:28:00Z

The French army is losing ground in the Sahel. Admittedly, it can boast of a few "successes" such as the neutralization of more than 600 jihadists, including Oumarou Mobo Modhi (specialist in the manufacture of improvised explosive devices), Baye Ag Bakabo (author of the kidnapping in which French journalists Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon were assassinated), Adnan Abou Walid al-Sahraoui (responsible for the Islamic State group in the Greater Sahara, EIGS), or more recently, at the end (…)

- Afrique de l'Ouest

NIGERIA : Les conséquences dramatiques du changement climatique

Drew Povey — 2016-01-20T04:31:00Z

Le changement climatique est souvent vu comme quelque chose qui pourrait arriver, dans le futur. Mais il est déjà là et il détruit déjà la vie de milliers de personnes au Nigeria. Les riches bien sûr peuvent échapper à ses effets, mais invariablement c'est la classe ouvrière et les pauvres qui subissent les conséquences dramatiques du changement climatique.
Les données, collectées notamment par l'agence météorologique nigériane, révèlent que la température a augmenté de 1,1° quand les (…)

- Nigeria / Climat

Nigeria : Together We Can Stop Climate Change

Drew Povey — 2015-11-29T04:05:00Z

Climate change is due to the activities of major companies, mainly those based in the industrialised countries. So in 2012, it was estimated that around two thirds of carbon dioxide emissions come from companies based in China, US, Europe, Japan and Russia.
Only 90 major companies are estimated to be responsible for nearly two thirds of climate change gas emissions. However, it is the poor across the world who are suffering the effects of climate change. The United Nations Climate Change (…)

- Nigeria / Climat

Nigeria : We Need a Massive Fight for a Minimum Wage of N66,000 NOW !

Drew Povey — 2015-11-25T04:15:00Z

The minimum wage should have been revised by now – but little progress seems to have been made. The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) need to immediately lead a strong campaign to ensure that our demand for N66,000 now is realised as soon as possible. Five years ago, in December 2010, the NLC and TUC demanded N52, 200 as the minimum wage based on the then prevailing economic situation and indicators.
In early September, The President of the NLC, Ayuba (…)

- Nigeria / luttes ouvrières

We Need a Massive Fight for a Minimum Wage of N66,000 NOW !

Drew Povey — 2015-11-18T04:22:00Z

- Nigeria / luttes ouvrières

Burkina Faso - “Enough is enough !”

Drew Povey — 2014-11-05T11:49:00Z

INTRODUCTION
In the early 1980s, President Sankara was a beacon of hope against the increased inequality and insecurity structural adjustment introduced across Africa. In the first half of 2011 Burkina Faso was again in the news as strikes (including a general strike on 8th April), mass action and even mutinies by the presidential guard came close to bringing the Arab Spring to sub-Saharan Africa and toppling Blaise Compaoré. He had been president for 27 years after ordering the murder (…)

- Burkina Faso / Analyse

NIGERIA : Boko Haram et la guerre contre la terreur

Drew Povey — 2014-05-30T10:17:00Z

Des rapports récents ont mis en évidence la brutalité de l'armée nigériane dans ses opérations contre les prétendus terroristes de Boko Haram. Les socialistes et les autres militants de la classe ouvrière ont besoin de répondre à la campagne conduite par les États-Unis sur la guerre contre le terrorisme international et spécialement contre l'état de siège, l'occupation militaire et les meurtres de masse dans le Nord-est du Nigeria. Amnesty International a décrit un cycle d'attaques, de (…)

- Nigeria / Religion, Guerre