The significance of the Brazil election for Latin America

Caribbean Labour Solidarity Sunday Zoom
Sunday 1 November 2026 at 2pm London time
[note clocks in UK have gone back one hour]

All welcome, but you will need to register in advance
https://ucl.zoom.us/meeting/register/IANJUXaMTUat7eDJQrTvGA

Brazil is a giant, from the geographic, economic, industrial and population viewpoints. Brazil is also a founder member of the BRICS, and has weighty influence in Latin America and the world. Thus, it has become a target of Trump’s heavy interference and aggression.

Speaker: Dr. Francisco Dominguez, Chair of the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign.

The Codrington Project through the eyes of tenants

Speakers from The Codrington Estate Tenants and Farmers Union

There has been recent controversy in the press in Barbados about the Codrington Trust’s management of the Codrington Estate. There are also questions about the attitude of the Codrington Trust and the United Society Partners in the Gospel (USPG) to Reparations. From 1711-1835, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG), forerunner of the USPG, exploited the labour of enslaved persons on the Codrington Estates in Barbados thereby committing crimes against humanity.

Come and hear the views of the tenants and farmers on the estate.

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The MV Barima Tragedy – An Update on the Disaster

CLS is pleased to welcome Danuta Radzik, who will provide an update on the Barima tragedy and discuss the wider questions of accountability and justice that it has raised.

Danuta is a long-standing human rights, women’s rights and environmental activist who has worked on issues of gender and social justice for more than four decades. She has advocated through a range of civil society organisations in Guyana and, more recently, as an independent civil society campaigner for environmental justice.

Background

On the night of 18 July 2026, while travelling from Georgetown to Port Kaituma in Guyana’s Region One, … Read on ...