Category: Publications
Cutlass 15
The latest issue of Cutlass, the bulletin of Caribbean Labour Solidarity is now out, download it here…
Articles on:
- The situation in Guyana
- US Dockworkers Strike for Justice
- Statues and slavery
- Venezuela: UK’s colonialist impulses
- Report from Jamaica
- Israel plans to annex parts of Palestine
- A Tribute to Ed Spring
Billy Strachan
RAF Officer, Communist, Civil Rights Pioneer,
Legal Administrator, Internationalist and
ABOVE ALL CARIBBEAN MAN
by David Horsley
A CLS publication
To obtain a copy or for further information contact the author at ukdavid.d@gmail.com
Billy Strachan was born in Kingston, Jamaica. He arrived in England in March 1940 and joined the Royal Air Force. He became an air gunner and then a flight lieutenant. He returned briefly to Jamaica and then came back to England in 1947. He was a member of the Communist Party and the secretary of the London branch of the Caribbean Labour Congress. He founded a monthly journal, Caribbean News.
He was a founder member of Caribbean Labour Solidarity.
Cutlass 13
Cutlass Issue 13 is now available for download…
Articles on:
- Glasgow University ‘benefited from slave trade profits’
- US Invasion of Grenada 35th Anniversary
- Black Tudors:The Untold Story
- Nicaragua in the Context of the Failed Coup
- Pollution threatens the Caribbean
- Justice for LGBT