Nigeria
(Statements) African progressives on the coup in Niger
Nigeria: We don’t need another hero
South Africa: Xenophobia or Afrophobia?
By Denja Yaqub, assistant se
Nigeria: 'Je Suis Baga'? The world ignores the tragedy of Baga
Nigerian troops patrol Baga after the previou
Ebola epidemic exposes the sickness of the global economic and political system
An awareness campaign against Ebola in Abidjan, Ivory
Nigeria: Hypocritical West exploits Boko Haram's crimes
Members of Boko Ha
Nigeria: Africa’s number one economy -- for wealth evaporation
In 2012, neoliberalism catalysed a nati
Nigeria: Condemn continued attacks on comrade Femi Aborisade
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By Baba Aye, SWL national chairperson
January 3, 2013 -- International Socialist Tendency -- The Socialist Workers League (SWL Nigeria) is bothered by the continued attacks against Comrade Femi Aborisade (pictured), a leading member of the SWL and the editor of Socialist Worker, the League’s newspaper, who is a senior principal lecturer at the Polytechnic Ibadan. Eight armed men stormed his house on December 29, 2012. This was the second of such attacks within five weeks.
the SWL promptly wrote to the commissioner of police demanding that action be taken to safeguard Comrade Aborisade and indeed all residents within the premises of the institution. At that time, we were rather reticent and refrained from categorically declaring the attack as being political. But for similar attacks to take place barely a month after, with the armed hoodlums calling out his name and demanding that he comes out, shows that there is much more to this matter than one of armed robbery.
Will IMF neoliberalism make a comeback in Africa via Tunisia?
The neoliberal government of Ben Ali was overthrown by popular rebellion in 2010. Can the IMF co-opt the Arab Spring?
By Patrick Bond and Khadija Sharife
February 2, 2012 – Links international Journal of Socialist Renewal -- With International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Christine Lagarde in Tunisia today, the stage is set for ideological war over the progress of democratic revolutions.
Until 27-year-old fruit seller Mohamed Bouazizi committed suicide by immolation in the provincial town of Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia was packaged as an IMF success story. In 2008, dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was embraced by Lagarde’s predecessor, Dominique Strauss-Kahn: "Economic policy adopted here is a sound policy and is the best model for many emerging countries.”
Nigeria: A smouldering rage; Disappointment and anger at strike suspension
Anti-government rally, Kano, Nigeria, January 16, 2012.