With millions on strike and crowds singing Solidarity Forever, Occupy Nigeria has shut down the most populous country in Africa. ...Though big labor actions might be more common in Nigeria than in the US, folks are saying this one feels different. Maybe it's the wave of protest against neoliberalism around the world in 2011, maybe it's the corruption--facilitated by neoliberal deregulation -- or maybe it's the high unemployment rates (over 40% among young workers), maybe it's that oil is so central to the economy; or maybe it's all of this together.
in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Occupy Nigeria: A general strike against the 'Cabalocrocy'
Click here to access article by Paul Fudder from Solidarity.