26/03/2026
PRESS STATEMENT
Workers and Youth Solidarity Network (WYSN)
In Solidarity with Informal Workers Demanding Social Protection
The Workers and Youth Solidarity Network (WYSN) expresses its firm solidarity with the courageous members of the Federation of Informal Workers of Nigeria who took to the gates of the National Assembly Complex to demand long-overdue social protection for millions of informal workers across Nigeria.
This protest is both timely and justified. Informal workers, market traders, artisans, transport workers, domestic workers, and countless others constitute the backbone of Nigeria’s economy. Yet, they remain excluded from even the most basic forms of social security. The demand for comprehensive social protection, social insurance, contributory pension schemes, and accessible health insurance is not a privilege, but a fundamental right.
For decades, successive governments have paid lip service to the welfare of working people while implementing policies that deepen inequality and precarious living conditions. The absence of universal social protection exposes informal workers to extreme vulnerability in times of illness, old age, unemployment, and economic crisis. This is unacceptable in a country endowed with immense human and material resources.
WYSN aligns fully with FIWON’s demands and calls on the Nigerian state to:
Immediately initiate a universal and publicly funded social protection system that covers all workers, including those in the informal sector.
Establish a comprehensive national health insurance scheme that guarantees free or affordable healthcare for all.
Implement a transparent and accessible contributory pension system tailored to the realities of informal workers.
Ensure that all social protection frameworks are democratically managed, with direct participation of workers’ organizations.
We emphasize that any attempt to shift the burden of social protection onto already impoverished workers through exploitative contributions, without corresponding state responsibility, must be resisted. Social protection must be funded through public wealth, including the taxation of big corporations and the redirection of resources from wasteful government expenditure.
Furthermore, we call on the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria to go beyond statements and actively mobilize their structures in support of informal workers’ struggles. The unity of formal and informal workers is essential to winning lasting gains.
The struggle of FIWON is the struggle of all workers and youth. In the face of deepening economic hardship, rising inflation, and mass unemployment, the fight for social protection is inseparable from the broader struggle for a just and equitable society.
WYSN reiterates its unwavering support for FIWON and calls on all progressive organizations, civil society groups, and the Nigerian masses to rally behind this just cause.
Forward ever in the struggle for workers’ rights and social justice!
Signed:
Workers and Youth Solidarity Network (WYSN)
Comrade Iortyom Ushahemba Moses
National Secretary
11/03/2026
Impressions from today protest at the National Human Rights Commission National office in Abuja to demand an end to the sham trial of Hassan Taiwo Soweto and Femi Frank.
Solidarity forever.
27/02/2026
Date: 26th February, 2026
Through:
The High Commissioner
High Commission of Kenya in Nigeria
Abuja, Nigeria
To:
The Government of Kenya
RE: Call for the Immediate Release of Booker Ngesa Omole, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kenya
Your Excellency,
The Revolutionary Socialist Movement (RSM), Nigeria, writes to express our grave concern over the arrest and continued detention of Mr. Booker Ngesa Omole, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kenya.
According to an available report from a verified source. On the evening of 24th of February, 2026, Comrade Booker Ngesa Omole, Secretary General and a consistent fighter of the working class, was violently abducted in Isiolo by officers of the Kenya Police Service. He was beaten severely. Tortured. Brutalised to near death. His tooth was broken. His finger was cut with a pen knife. He was treated not as a citizen with rights but as an enemy to be crushed.
After this savage assault, he was dumped at Mlolongo Police Station, a station widely feared by the masses and long associated with extrajudicial killings and systematic terror against the poor and politically conscious. His phone signal has been traced there. We consider this state violence against dissents.
Booker Omole, was later thrown into a filthy cell. An unknown man was sent to defecate in the corner. Poorly cooked food was dumped beside the waste. Then Booker was forced to clean the human filth. Booker Ngesa Omole was later transferred to Kitengela Remand Prison with a broken arm. The court denied him both cash bail and urgent medical care. To us, this is political persecution and we demand the immediate release of Booker from illegal detention.
We consider his detention a serious violation of democratic rights, including freedom of expression, association, and political participation—rights that are fundamental in any society that claims adherence to constitutional governance and democratic norms.
As a political leader representing working people and youth in Kenya, Mr. Omole has the right to express his political views, mobilize support for his organization, and engage in lawful activism without fear of repression. Criminalizing dissent or targeting opposition figures sets a dangerous precedent that undermines democratic institutions and weakens public confidence in governance.
We therefore call on the Government of Kenya to:
1. Immediately and unconditionally release Mr. Booker Ngesa Omole.
2. Drop any politically motivated charges against him.
3. Guarantee the protection of democratic rights for all political activists and organizations in Kenya.
The Revolutionary Socialist Movement stands in solidarity with workers, youth, and progressive forces across Africa who struggle for justice, equality, and democratic freedoms. We believe that repression cannot silence the legitimate aspirations of the people.
We respectfully urge the Kenyan authorities to act swiftly in the interest of democracy, the rule of law, and continental solidarity.
Please accept, Your Excellency, the assurances of our highest consideration.
Signed,
National Secretariat
Revolutionary Socialist Movement (RSM)
Abuja, Nigeria
Contact: 091619998034, 07035225037
Email: [email protected]
09/02/2026
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29/01/2026
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
29 January, 2026
RSM Denounces Brutal Crackdown in Lagos, Demands Immediate and Unconditional Release of Hassan Taiwo Soweto and Frank Dele
The Revolutionary Socialist Movement (RSM) strongly condemns the violent repression carried out yesterday against peaceful demonstrators protesting demolitions and forced evictions at the Lagos State House of Assembly. The arrest of socialist activist Hassan Taiwo Soweto (leading member of the Democratic Socialist Movement /CWI Nigeria) and Frank Dele, a campaigner and community member, represents a naked assault on democratic freedoms and a calculated attempt to silence popular resistance.
This crackdown exposes the true character of a system that protects property speculators and political elites while criminalising the poor, informal workers, and residents fighting for their homes and livelihoods. Instead of addressing the social crisis created by reckless demolitions, state authorities have chosen batons, tear gas, and detention cells.
RSM demands the immediate and unconditional release of Hassan Taiwo Soweto and Frank Dele and the total withdrawal of any charges against them. We request urgent medical attention for anyone injured during the crackdown and a transparent investigation into those responsible for ordering and executing the violent dispersal of demonstrators.
RSM calls on labour unions, student organisations, civil society groups, journalists and defenders of democratic rights to mobilise in solidarity. Statements alone are not enough. Coordinated action—mass protests, workplace resolutions, legal defence campaigns, and sustained public pressure—is required to force the authorities to retreat and secure the freedom of all detainees.
The housing crisis confronting Lagos residents and other parts of the country needs to be urgently addressed. It requires massive public investment in affordable housing, an end to forced evictions, and the democratic participation of affected communities in urban planning decisions.
RSM stands shoulder-to-shoulder with every resident resisting unjust displacement and with every activist targeted for daring to confront inequality and abuse of power.
Free Hassan Taiwo Soweto and Frank Dele now.
Stop demolitions and forced evictions.
Defend democratic rights.
Massive state investment in public housing.
Revolutionary Socialist Movement (RSM)
Salako Kayode
Publicity Secretary
11/01/2026
Happy New year from the great thinker of all times.
09/01/2026
Let me tell you a few things about Hugo Chavez.
Hugo Chavez was a working class military colonel who gained popularity by railing against the liberal elites who controlled his country & sold it out to foreign powers.
These liberal elites portrayed him as a dumb hick in the media, too “unsophisticated” to run the Government. It was very similar to how Hillary Clinton portrayed Trump supporters in here campaign.
Chavez won election in 1998 beating all the corporate puppet candidates. His era was the most prosperous in Venezuela’s entire history as he brought people out of poverty, abolished illiteracy, gave elderly workers pensions, built thousands of new homes, and fixed curable blindness for over a million of his people.
This man was a working class hero, but the media wants you to believe that he was the devil.
Learn more about Chavez, I promise you will like him more, the more that you learn.
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