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an anti-xenophobia rally in Durban, South Africa The attacks on migrants from sister African countries in South Africa in March and April, which claimed not less than 7 lives with over a thousand rendered homeless, reflect the deepening crisis of capitalism and how this takes various shapes, including mobilisation along identity lines to divide the ranks of working people of all lands. The fact that such outbursts of xenophobia, has become recurrent with 67 persons killed in similar attacks 7 years ago, makes it even more worrisome and calls for deep reflections on what is to be done by working class activists. Several groups and governments have condemned this misguided rage of the dispossessed on the streets of the KwaZulu Natal and Gauteng, Johannesburg provinces. In several Nigerian cities, protesters have marched to the South African High Commission and multinational corporations such as DSTV, MTN and Shoprite demanding an end to the rampage and prosecution of its perpetrato...

                           "...for there can be no socialist change and therefore no real freedom and democracy where there is not a large body of  Marxists” – Eskor Toyo [1]     Introduction A wind of change blew across Nigeria in the month of March, laden with problems and prospects for the working class, as contentious elections took place in the trade unions and the general polity. The emergence of General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the first opposition candidate to won a presidential election in the country at the end of the month was heralded all over the world as a new dawn for politics in Africa. This was particularly so as President Goodluck Jonathan of the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) conceded defeat before the formal declaration of results. APC also swept some 60% of the federal parliamentary seats and now controls a major...