Urgent Response to U.S. Policy Threats Concerning the Panama Canal

Letter to CARICOM,
cc: To Caribbean and Central American Heads of Government

Dear Dr. Carla Natalie Barnett,

Re: Urgent Response to U.S. Policy Threats Concerning the Panama Canal

I write as President of Caribbean Labour Solidarity (CLS), an organization committed to advocating for justice, sovereignty, and solidarity among the peoples of the Caribbean and beyond. This letter is prompted by President Donald Trump’s alarming declaration in his January 20, 2025, inaugural address, in which he vowed to “take back” the Panama Canal.

This rhetoric echoes past U.S. interventions and suggests a potential return to policies of coercion and dominance. The … Read on ...

The Legacy of Slavery and the Case for Reparations

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
and
Enslaved Worker Rebellions and … Read on ...

Return Shamima Begum to the UK / Hands off Panama

Return Shamima Begum to the United Kingdom – Restore her Citizenship – speaker: Kwabena Dennot Nyack – member of the Executive of Caribbean Labour Solidarity and secretary of Grenada Forward Ever.
and
Trump – Hands off Panama – Dr Francisco Dominguez is a senior lecturer at Middlesex University, where he is head of the Centre for Brazilian and Latin American Studies, and secretary of the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign.