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Cutlass 20

The new edition of Cutlass is now out and can be downloaded here…

Articles on:

  • Against Bauxite Mining in Jamaica
  • High Time for ‘The Republic of Belize’
  • TUC LESE Reparations for Afrikan Enslavement Steering Group
  • Solidarity with the P&O seafarers
  • Death at the Frontier: Border Control, Migration and the Workers’ Movement
  • Sir Robert Geffrye and the Business of Slavery
  • Knife crime, stop and search
  • Report on Chile from Francisco Dominguez
  • Demonstration in Hackney over police strip-search of Black child
  • Exxon-Mobil and Guyana
  • On The March
  • ‘Bristol and Transatlantic Slavery: Origins, impact and legacy’ – book review
  • Decolonising Education
  • Trade union mobilisation in Trinidad
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Sir Robert Geffrye and the Business of Slavery

Why the Museum of the Home must remove the statue of Robert Geffrye and make reparations
by Steve Cushion
published by Hackney Stand Up To Racism and Caribbean Labour Solidarity

Single copies: £4 plus £1.50 post and packing.
Email orders to publications@hackneysutr.org

The debate over the statue of Sir Robert Geffrye (1613–1703) outside the Museum of the Home in Hackney has opened a window onto the slave trade and its role in the creation of modern Britain. As a successful London businessman and politician, Geffrye’s life well illustrates the early development of capitalism in England and the relationship between the City of London and the origins of imperialism, particularly the importance of the whole business of slavery.

Diane Abbott MP, … Read on ...

Nicaragua & Child Q (Hackney) – CLS Meeting

Guisell Morales Echaverry, Ambassador of the Republic of Nicaragua, who will update us on the recent Sandinista victory at the polls, despite the intense corporate news campaign of misinformation on Nicaragua and highlight some of the gains of the Nicaragua revolution.

Professor Gus John, will deliver a talk on recent matters in Hackney:
After Child Q, how do we protect our children?

For generations our children have been criminalised by police on the streets. They are now increasingly criminalised by teachers in schools who, rather than acting ‘in loco parentis’, flagrantly disregard their duty of care to children and trample upon their rights. What’s to be done?