Union Education in Nigeria

Tijani, Hakeem Ibikunle

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“…But this tendency has to be held in check closely. 108 In other words, there is an understandable initial reaction to want to dismiss the idea of a legal right that is unknown and previously undefined in established legal rubric. The court must guard against such views and engage in a broader analysis.…”

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In Defence of the Trees: Presenting the Case for Ancient Forest Rights

Rusnak,

Rusnak

2023

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Section: A Recognizing and Adopting A Previously Unknown Legal Rightmentioning

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In Defence of the Trees: Presenting the Case for Ancient Forest Rights

Rusnak,

Rusnak

2023

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“…Abstract principles fashioned a priori are of but little assistance, and are as often as not misleading. " 51 Yet, this is exactly what the Court did in Delgammukw when it determined that Aboriginal title is necessarily collective and inalienable except to the Crown: it "fashioned abstract principles a priori" instead of limiting itself to studying "the history of the particular community and its usages in each case. " The conundrum does not end there.…”

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Case Commentary: Manitoba Métis Federation v. Canada and Manitoba

O'Toole¹

2014

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Some 142 years after the adoption of the Manitoba Act, 1870, the Supreme Court of Canada came down with a decision in the Manitoba Métis Federation v. Canada and Manitoba, a case that revolved around the land clauses in the Act. When the District of Assiniboia-often known as the Red River Settlement-entered Confederation as the Province of Manitoba in 1870 under the terms of the Manitoba Act, sections 30 and 33 contained an anomaly relative to both earlier and later British colonies that were to form the provinces of Canada: 30. All ungranted or waste lands in the Province shall be, from and after the date of the said transfer, vested in the Crown, and administered by the Government of Canada for the purposes of the Dominion, subject to, and except and so far as the same may be affected by, the conditions and stipulations contained in the agreement for the surrender of Rupert's Land by the Hudson's Bay Company to Her Majesty. 33. The Governor General in Council shall from time to time settle and appoint the mode and form of Grants of Land from the Crown, and any Order in Council for that purpose when published in the Canada Gazette, shall have the same force and effect as if it were a portion of this Act. Contrary to sections 92(5), 109, and 117, as well as the Third Schedule of the Constitution Act, 1867, s. 30 of the Manitoba Act provided that "All ungranted or waste lands" fell under the Crown in the right of Canada, and not of Manitoba. This anomaly was not to be resolved until the Constitution Act, 1930. Meanwhile, by way of compensation, the Manitoba Act contained two further clauses that concerned two types of land claims: the Indigenous title of the Métis and the quieting of existing titles. 31. And whereas, it is expedient, towards the extinguishment of the Indian Title to the lands in the Province, to appropriate a portion of such ungranted lands, to the extent of one million four hundred thousand acres thereof, for the benefit of the families of the half-breed residents, it is hereby enacted, that, under regulations to be from time to time made by the Governor General in Council, the Lieutenant-Governor shall select such lots or tracts in such parts of the Province as he may deem expedient, to the extent aforesaid, and divide the same among the children of the half-breed heads of families residing in the Province at the time of the said transfer to Canada, and the same shall be granted to the said children respectively, in such mode and on such conditions as to settlement and otherwise, as the Governor General in Council may from time to time determine.

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The Missing Link? Western Communists as Mediators Between the East German FDGB, the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), and African Trade Unions in the Late 1950s and Early 1960s

Harisch

Burton

2023

Inter. Labor Working-Class Hist.

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In the interstices of Cold War rivalries and anti-colonial agitation in late 1950s Africa, African workers came into the focus of African nationalist politicians, Western leftists, colonial regimes and state socialist states alike. They were a small, but influential group, increasingly organized in trade unions and capable of bringing whole economies to a halt. European communists on both sides of the Iron Curtain saw these workers not only as part of an inceptive working class but also debated their role as a potential key force in global anti-capitalist revolution – if they had the right concepts. But how could trade union representatives, particularly those ones from Eastern Europe, actually get in touch with their African counterparts? Based on archival materials of the East German Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (FDGB), this article discusses East-West-South connections in labor education with a special emphasis on the role of Western trade union officials working for or affiliated to the communist-dominated World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU). Drawing on their international experience, personal networks and linguistic skills, French and British communists established and intensified links between African trade unions and WFTU affiliates like the FDGB in the 1950s and early 1960s. Their influence facilitated and shaped these East-South connections. First, through their networks in West Africa, Western communists enabled the WFTU and the FDGB to internationalize their concepts of trade union education and integrate it into African political structures. Secondly, we examine the African Workers’ University in Conakry, an East-West-South joint venture between the West African Union Générale des Travailleurs d'Afrique Noire (UGTAN) and the WFTU, where trade unionists from the entire African continent attended courses between 1960 and 1965 and where European communists broadened their horizons while often holding on to rigid views. Thirdly, the article examines how European trade union functionaries talked about African course participants behind closed doors—building on the transcripts from a 1963 WFTU gathering on education for African trade unionists. Emphasizing their insider knowledge, French communists with experience in African trade union education called for innovative pedagogical concepts including a more practice-related education which acknowledged the heterogeneous conditions in different countries. However, they also promoted Eurocentric stage theories and saw a need to “discipline” Africans. The article concludes that the cooperation between actors from East, West and South rested on some shared assumptions, but encounters also led to reconceptualizations and realizations of ideological and practical constraints in international labor education.

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Union Education in Nigeria

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In Defence of the Trees: Presenting the Case for Ancient Forest Rights

In Defence of the Trees: Presenting the Case for Ancient Forest Rights

Case Commentary: Manitoba Métis Federation v. Canada and Manitoba

The Missing Link? Western Communists as Mediators Between the East German FDGB, the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), and African Trade Unions in the Late 1950s and Early 1960s

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