Declaration of the Formation of the Naija Marxists Organisation and the Necessity of a People's Vanguard Party
A Concrete Analysis of the Situation
Nigeria is not a “developing nation” failing to meet its potential; it is a classic case of neocolonial underdevelopment. The vast wealth of our soil and the ache in our backs are systematically expropriated by a group of local elites whose economic interests are welded to the imperialist centres of London, Paris, and Washington. The crises strangling this country — mass unemployment, state-sanctioned impoverishment, insecurity, organised theft, and many structural and societal ills, together with actions many describe as treasonable — are not accidents of poor governance but the deliberate architecture of a capitalist system built to exploit, extract, and dominate the Nigerian working class, its youth, and its peasantry.
The removal of the fuel subsidy and the floating of the Naira, masquerading as “reforms,” are simply weapons of accumulation by dispossession, designed to snatch the last scraps of public wealth and funnel them straight into the pockets of the big monopoly capitalists, while plunging the toiling masses into deeper suffering. Meanwhile, our national question, the clashes between our ethnic nationalities and religious identities, is continuously and deliberately stoked by the ruling political class in order to scatter our minds and block the rise of a unified class consciousness among us, the everyday hustlers, fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters of Nigeria.
Enough.
From Lagos danfo stops to Kano markets, from Port Harcourt oil rigs to Enugu coal pits, united as a people, united as one class, organised in unions, streets, and neighbourhoods, we can shut down their profit machine with strikes and mass action, and seize back our wealth and our future.
Who We Are
We are the inevitable offspring, FORGED IN THE FIRES OF NIGERIA’S STRUGGLES, BORN from the blood, sweat, and tears of the NIGERIAN PROLETARIAT AND PEASANT CLASS. We are THE LIVING CONTRADICTIONS tearing at this fractured neocolonial state, the unbroken chain in a proud lineage of Nigerian Marxism, from early agitators to today’s street fighters.
We are not a charity or NGO body. We are not a pressure group within bourgeois democracy. We are the most conscious and committed sons and daughters of the Nigerian working class, the rural peasantry, and the alienated intelligentsia, organised to bring the truth to Nigerians and show them a path to their emancipation because we understand that the enemy, the Nigerian state and its imperialist backers, is ruthless, sophisticated, and will not relinquish power without a struggle.
We study the science of revolution as laid down by Marx, Engels, Lenin, the century-long line of Socialist leaders, and the lessons of anti-colonial struggle both in Nigeria and beyond. We apply this science to the specific conditions of the Nigerian semi-feudal and neocolonial formation. Our task is to fuse Scientific Socialism with the spontaneous resistance of the Nigerian masses.
The Road Ahead
From the African Workers Union of Nigeria, established as early as 1931, to the Socialist Workers and Farmers Party of Nigeria (SWFPN) in 1963, to the People’s Redemption Party (PRP) founded by Mallam Aminu Kano in 1978, and through the long line of prominent Marxist intellectuals such as Eskor Toyo, Ola Oni, Edwin Madunagu, and countless unnamed cadres who organised in factories, marketplaces, and farmlands, we continue the legacy of Nigerian Marxism. We inherit their unfinished struggle to combat the exploitation of Nigeria and the Nigerian people.
The current path of Nigerian capitalism leads only to barbarism and disintegration. The alternative is Socialism.
We call upon the advanced elements of the working class and the revolutionary youth to cast aside illusions in bourgeois elections and “civil society” NGO-ism.
Organise. Study. Fight.
The liberation of Nigeria is a task we must accomplish ourselves.
Forward to the People’s Democratic Revolution!
