Issue 25 of Cutlass is now available to download here…

Articles on:

• Hands off Haïti, Ne touchez pas à Ayiti
• Communist Party of Kenya Rejects President Ruto’s Proposal to Deploy Kenya Police to Haiti
• Solidarity with the People of Palestine
• The Labour Party must restore the whip to Diane Abbott MP
• ONGOING FRENCH IMPERIALISM IN AFRICA
• Merely closing the borders is not an answer
• Jamaica teachers (and nurses) leaving in droves
• Book reviews
  • Nazneen AhmedPathak, City of Stolen Magic
  • Arun Kundnani, What is Anti-racism? And why it means Anti-capitalism
  • Tessa Murphy, The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the

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The Beckford family had been involved in both the West India trade and as contractors supplying the Royal Navy since the mid-1600s. The London branch of the family, Richard Beckford (1619-1679) and his brother Sir Thomas (1628-1685) supplied the Navy with cheap clothing for the sailors, indeed, in 1668, Thomas is on record as bribing Samuel Pepys, Chief Secretary to the Admiralty, with a gift of £50 [£204,900] and a silver warming pan, which helped secure naval contracts worth £24,800 [£101,600,000].¹

Meanwhile, another branch of the family made their money in the West Indies. Peter Beckford (1643–1710) arrived in … Read on ...

Our friend and comrade, Crofton St Louis, Past President of Caribbean Labour Solidarity, has passed away.

The late Cde Crofton “Croffie” St. Louis, Grenadian Patriot, internationalist and spirited revolutionary died in his homeland Grenada, yesterday morning at age 83. He was a fierce supporter of the Cuban Revolution; a lifelong activist member of the UK-based Caribbean Labour Solidarity (CLS); a founding member of the Committee for Human Rights in Grenada (CHRG- UK) founded in the wake of the US military invasion and occupation of Grenada in October 1983. Cde. “Croffie” was also a founding member of the NJM UK branch … Read on ...

The respected lawyer Jacqueline McKenzie now appears the latest target of the Government’s attacks. Jacqueline has spent much of her time defending people, often from Caribbean Countries, often from the Windrush Generation.

We stand with her and offer her our full solidarity.

The following statement was issued by her partners at Leigh Day. We wholeheartedly endorse its sentiments:

Following the recent media coverage criticising and attacking one of our partners, Jacqueline McKenzie, and many other immigration lawyers we wanted to publicly state our complete support and admiration for the work that Jacqueline, her team, and many other lawyers around the

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