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President Yar'adua's Era: A new dawn for the masses? DSM newsStatementsOur manifestoAbout usSocialist DemocracyDSM Newspaper DonateCampaignsElection 2011Fuel CrisisInternationalStudentsTrade UnionsWomenDownloadsLinks | 18 May 2012 DSM Intervention at May DAY: Reports across the countryMembers of DSM actively participated in this year’s May Day events at nine of the centres across the country.The general report of this intervention has already been published on this website.Below are the reports from four of the centres DSM comrades intervened which capture more insights and moods at the rallies in Abuja, Osun, Oyo and Ondo states.16 May 2012 DSM CONDEMNS THE SACK OF STRIKING LAGOS DOCTORSREINSTATE ALL SACKED DOCTORS!We Urge NMA to declare 24-hour Solidarity National Strike Now!!The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) condemns the sack of 788 doctors by the Lagos state government. This action is draconian and unlawful. Doctors embarked on strike when the Lagos State Government refused to implement the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS), which was signed into law in September 2009 as a uniform salary scale for all doctors across the federation. 13 May 2012 HASSAN OLUWAFUNMIKE MONSURAT'S DEATH AT LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITYTHE MANAGEMENT IS CULPABLE!Education Rights Campaign (ERC)We call for a democratic and independent probe panel to investigate Hassan Oluwafunmike Monsurat's death and bring all culpable university officials to trialThe Education Rights Campaign (ERC) condemns the untimely death of Miss Hassan Oluwafunmike Monsurat, a 300 level female Banking and Finance student of Lagos State University on Monday, May 7, 2012. Miss Oluwafunmike - just like Elvis Abu Paul, a 300 level computer science student of Ajayi Crowther University who also died in similar circumstances on February 5, 2012 - has also fallen victim of the infrastructural decay and poor health services characteristic of our education system. 13 May 2012 France: Weekend that shocked EuropeAusterity rejected in Eurozone's second biggest economyRobert Bechert, Committee for a Workers' International (CWI)Sarkozy's downfall, alongside the crushing defeat of the pro-austerity parties in Greece, is a real turning point. Not only did he head the eighth European government to be defeated in the last year, the French and Greek elections were the most influential electoral rejection of austerity so far. 13 May 2012 CDWR CONDEMNS THE SACK OF STRIKING LAGOS DOCTORSFASHOLA SHOULD IMMEDIATELY MEET DEMANDS OF DOCTORS AND ADEQUATELY FUND HEALTH CARE SERVICESCampaign for Democratic and Workers' Rights (CDWR) PRESS STATEMENTThe Campaign for Democratic and Workers' Rights (CDWR) condemns the sack of striking doctors by the Lagos state government. This action is draconian and unlawful. Doctors have embarked on strike when the Lagos State Government refused to implement the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS), which was signed into law in September 2009 as a salary scale for all doctors across the federation. 8 May 2012 Striking Doctors SackedLagos Doctors' StrikeDSM Calls on NMA, NLC and TUC to declare a 24hour solidarity nationwide strikeFor a Collective Fight Back to Defeat the GovernmentBy H.T SowetoOn Monday 7 May 2012, doctors in Lagos State employment who have been on strike since April 16 were collectively sacked. The doctors embarked on strike to demand the implementation of the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS), which was signed into law in September 2009 as a salary scale for all doctors across the federation. 7 May 2012 Experiences of the explosion of class struggle proves the urgency of a working class alternative
Report of discussion at DSM National CommitteeFrom Saturday 14 April to Sunday 15 April 2012, the National Committee (NC) of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) met. Over 85 worker and youth members from different branches across the country attended the two day meeting. With the huge movement of workers and poor in January this year still fresh in mind, the NC provided an opportunity for a debate on the way forward for the struggle to change society. 7 May 2012 May Day in Nigeria: Fanfare fails to mask workers' anger
By Peluola AdewaleNigerian workers joined their counterparts globally to celebrate this year's international workers' day with merrymaking and fanfare in all the 36 state capitals and Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, where the central rally was held. This year's May Day was held with the theme "Right to work, food and education: Panacea to insecurity". Traditionally, the main feature of May Day in Nigeria is a fanfare with governors and the president, or their representatives, taking salutes of workers parading diligently like school boys and girls in front of them in a march past. 3 May 2012 ERC SUPPORTS UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN STUDENTS' PROTESTWe demand opening of the University not later than 9 May 2012All the demands of students should be met by the managementThe Education Rights Campaign strongly supports the protest embarked upon by students of the University of Ibadan (UI) over the non-availability of water and electricity supply in the university campus. We condemn the unwarranted and undemocratic closure of the University for two weeks by the management starting from Tuesday 24 April 2012. 2 May 2012 May Day 2012Celebrate working class history and fight for new victories!International Workers' Day and the socialist alternative to austerity and barbarismMay Day (International Workers' Day) is an opportunity for celebrating the militant internationalist traditions of the working class movement, converging with the explosive struggles of today. 1st May this year is as a key date in the calendar of living struggles and movements. The CWI believes that these struggles - from Greece to Chile, Nigeria to Tunisia - not only represent the inevitable explosive response to the current crisis. They also signal the emergence of a social force capable of reducing to rubble the plans of the international ruling class to pauperise workers and young people. The organised working class, mobilised in the fight for a genuinely socialist alternative, can transform society. | ||||
