New Horizon Magazine no.1, 1979
| dc.contributor.author | Edited by Dapo Fatogun | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ikpe Etokudo | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-12-11T05:56:15Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-12-11T05:56:15Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1979 | |
| dc.description | Issue 1 of New Horizon Magazine(1979) covers Nigerian politics, labor issues, and international socialist perspectives. Published in Lagos, it features SWPP's stance, trade union concerns, and global analyses. Key stories: “This we stand” outlines SWPP's position; “Trade unions” highlights wage freeze concerns; profiles feature Iroaham Amaechi. Articles: Nigeria's planning challenges, African industrialization (Developing Africa), media critique (Africa's TV), Hungary's revolution anniversary, class struggle theory, and reviews on Southern Africa/Racism & Ethiopia's revolution. A mix – politics, labor, and ideology . | |
| dc.description.abstract | ■ This we stand: SWPP declares stand: Members of the Central Committee of the Socialist Working Peoples’ Party of Nigeria (SWPP) met recently to deliberate on the decision of the Federal Electoral Commi ssion (FEDECO) not to register the Party ■ Trade unions: Wage-Freeze: Workers are suffering says Bernard Obuah: The Second plenary meeting of the National Executive Council of the Civil Service Technical Workers' Union of Nigeria was held in Lagos on January 24 and 25, 1979. ■ Profile: Iroaham Amaechi: IROAHAM EGEMBA AMAECHI was born in 1932 in Umueze-Afugidi, Umuahia, Imo State. He attended Methodist Central School, in his home town, Afugidi from 1937 to 1944 where he took the first position in his final class ■ The problems of planning in Nigeria: Preparations are now well under way for Nigeria's fourth national development plan 1980 to 1985 ■ Developing Africa Via Industrialization by DR. M. Awunofe: The crucial role of industrialization in building a new society is clearly evidenced by the experience of historical development of states. At present this fact is well recognized through out the world. ■ Africa's TV and brainwashing Statistics indicate there are four television sets to every one thousands of the population in Africa today. You will agree that is a modest figure. Television is making its way to the mass African viewer against great odds ■ Hungary Marks 60 Years Of Revolution By Ikpe Etokudo: For all progressives the world over and in particular the Hungarian people, March 21 is a day of great significance. Sixty years ago the Austro-Hungarian monarchy collapsed giving place to a revolutionary situation in Hungary. ■ Class and class struggle: Classes are large groups of people distinguished by their position in the process of social production, their relation to the means of production, their role in the social organisation of labour and, consequently, by the methods of acquisition and size of the share of the social wealth they possess. ■ Racists on the offensive in Southern Africa: A few months ago the publication of the Bingham report on the violation by the British Shell and British Petroleum companies of the embargo oil deliveries to Rhodesia gave rise to a strong political scandal. ■ Case for Ethiopia's revolution: Leaders of the separatists forces to a democratic dialogue with a view to imicably solving the problem. The Provisional Military Administrative Council was aware that Ethiopia as a country encompassing numerous nationalities, suffered from nationality oriented injustices under the discredited feudo-bourgeois order ■ Book Review: The long years dying: Title: Nothing Could Be Finer Author: Michael Myerson Publishers: International Publishers New York: MICHEAL MYERSON'S Nothing Could Be Finer is about modern forms of racial discrimination and political repression in the USA today. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://nigeriareposit.nln.gov.ng/handle/20.500.14186/2385 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Mushin, Lagos state (14, Tamakloe/Kelani Street): The New Horizon Publications, | |
| dc.title | New Horizon Magazine no.1, 1979 | |
| dc.type | Article |