A public meeting and book launch

Speakers:
Luke Daniels, President of Caribbean Labour Solidarity on Reparations for African Enslavement
Peter Ashan, Author of Freedom Walks on the legacy of enslavement, continuing racism and current rise of fascism.

The abolition of the traffic in enslaved Africans came as a result of a mass movement in Britain and resistance in the Caribbean. Two recently published  books reflect these different aspects of the struggle for abolition.

Slave-trade Abolition and Leytonstone House: the Sansoms, the Buxtons and Black History
by Claire Weiss, Peter Ashan and Geoff Nichols
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Enslaved Worker Rebellions and … Read on ...

also includes a report on the State of Emergency recently declared in Trinidad and Tobago

Speakers: Jeremy Corbyn, Emily Morris & Ozzi Warwick

Ozzi Warwick reports on the State of Emergency recently declared in Trinidad and Tobago – Ozzi is the Chief Education and Research Officer of the Oilfields Workers’ Trade of Trinidad and Tobago (OWTU) and is a member of the CLS Executive

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The Situation in Cuba – An Update from Emily Morris

Dr Emily Morris is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London’s Institute of the Americas and a long-time colleague of CLS.
Emily has recently … Read on ...

Discussion with Melinda Janki Attorney-at-Law

While the UK media runs stories on Guyana’s oil boom the reality in country is very different.
Enrichment of ExxonMobil. Impoverishment of ordinary people. Pollution of ocean and atmosphere. Exxon’s oil operations also threaten the Caribbean. This Exxon map shows one scenario of an oil spill reaching as far as Jamaica.

Melinda Janki LL.B, BCL (Oxon), LL.M is an international lawyer, winner of the Commonwealth Law Conference Rule of Law Award 2023, and an attorney-at-law in Guyana. She leads the legal team challenging dangerous deep water petroleum operations. Successes include court orders for ExxonMobil Guyana … Read on ...