Rolling  strike amendment-A proposal to the Nigerian people By  Chinweizu Posted Sun Jan 15,2015

It is  very good that labor and civil society organizations called this strike and that  the Nigerian people have responded splendidly. However, at the end of a week,  the need has arisen to change it to a rolling strike (i.e. strike for a few  days, rest and go to work a few days and then resume the strike, and repeat indefinitely for as long as it takes for the Federal Government of Nigeria, FGN, to obey the demonstrated will of the people). The FGN can win, and seems to count on winning, simply by hanging tough for a month; by which time hunger would have killed the strike. After all, how many people have stored enough food to last another week? How many can go another week without earning money or taking money from their bank? That is the weak spot of this strike. And if it is not eliminated this weekend, the strike will collapse and the anti-people system will triumph and survive. That is a hard fact of life we must accept, and adjust our tactics accordingly.

We  must bear in mind that, as Prof. Tam David West, a former Petroleum Minister,  and others have exposed on TV, this fuel subsidy thing is simply a racket to  fleece the public, a kind of 419. And the FGN seems determined to keep emptying  the pockets of the poor millions into the fat bank accounts of a few rich  racketeers. If the people want to win, (and why not?) this indefinite strike has  to be amended into a rolling strike so it can go on for as long as it takes to  achieve the people’s victory.I urge  the strike leaders to take note. This indefinite strike should be amended into a  rolling strike so it can go on for even a year if the FGN remains hard hearted,  anti-people and unreasonable.

The administration would do well to ponder the principle that a government which refuses to submit to the will of the people, its sovereign, is a rebel government and, by its own rebellion, legitimizes and invites upon itself the rebellion of the people.

Chinweizu

Lagos,

Nigeria

12 January 2012