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debate with the CWA on TIB/AAC

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Goke Akinrinde of the CWA majestically receiving participants The Campaign for Workers and Youth Alternative (CWA), the Nigerian section of the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) held a symposium with the theme “The 2019 General Elections & the impending Nigerian Revolution” on 8 December 2018. It posted its report of the meeting a few days later. The   the intention of the symposium, according to its organisers was t"o provoke a debate among the Left on the state and stage of class struggle in Nigeria and the best way to prepare for the impending class war". This is itself a good thing. The report threw up debate with a handful of comrades involved. I joined the fray at the point where there seemed to be contradictions between the conclusions in the course of discussion at the symposium by some of the leaders of the CWA and others that participated in it. For example, Akinrogunde Goke Tosin claimed that “whereas the discourse tilted towards an ackno