Police Killings

Sunday Zoom Meeting – 1st June 2pm London time

https://ucl.zoom.us/meeting/register/qAn0AhqbSN-mAmMva8AEsQ

Speaker: Ken Fero is a renowned multi-award winning filmmaker, activist and educator with Migrant Media which has produced hard-hitting television and cinema documentaries examining radical community responses to issues of race, class and resistance for over 30 years including Injustice and Ultraviolence. He co-founded the United Families & Friends Campaign, is a professor in media and communications at Regent’s University, London and is joint-convenor for the People’s Tribunal on Police Killings. He will address the topic of police killings at this event.

Neocolonialism through Debt: How French and US banks underdeveloped Haïti

CLS zoom meeting –  Sunday 4th May

Speakers: Bernard Coard and Steve Cushion

Two hundred years ago, the formerly enslaved population of the French colony of Saint Domingue defeated a French colonial army and declared the independent Republic of Haïti. Twenty years later, a French naval blockade forced the government of Haïti to agree to pay an indemnity of 150 million francs to compensate their former enslavers. In order to finance this, the Haïtian government contracted a number of loans from French-owned banks that left the country impoverished and underdeveloped, paving the way for the US invasion and occupation.

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RIP AVIS HART 1933- 2025

Luke Daniels, president of CLS said:
The sad news has reached us of the passing of Avis Hart. She was for more than 50 years the partner of Richard Hart (1917-2013), co-founder in 1974 of Caribbean Labour Solidarity (CLS). It was cheering to visit Avis and see her smiling, a year ago when Margaret Busby and I were warmly hosted by Avis’s good friend Ros Martin during the Bristol Radical History Festival. Here is a lovely tribute that Ros posted on LinkedIn earlier this month, reporting that “Avis died peacefully at her daughter’s home in Bristol in the company of … Read on ...

Claudia Jones Commemmoration 2025

Ceremony to commemorate the life of Claudia Jones, held at her graveside in Highgate cemetery

Luke Daniels, President of Caribbean Labour Solidarity was one of the speakers.