A response from Caribbean Labour Solidarity to
Renewal and Reconciliation: The Codrington Reparations Project

“Renewal and Reconciliation: The Codrington Reparations Project” was announced in 2023 in partnership with The Codrington Trust (CT) and the United Society Partners in the Gospel (USPG). This aims to take reparative action in response to USPG’s shameful links to slavery on the Codrington Estate, Barbados.

• Are they doing enough to apologise and make restitution?
• How have they dealt with the record of enslavers?
• Is the money they are offering adequate?
• How does all this fit into the modern campaign for Reparations?

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Speaker Sadie DeCoste

Sadie is a climate change researcher and activist with a focus on climate reparations, transformative adaptation, and loss and damage. At Tipping Point, she supports the Climate Reparations Network and the Care & Repair team. She co-founded the Loss and Damage Youth Coalition and has been active in loss and damage movements for several years.

She will be talking about climate reparations specifically, what it means, why it’s important and where the movement is at now.

CLS Sunday Meeting held on Sunday 6 October 2024

Speakers: Anthony Gifford, Luke Daniels and Steve Cushion


Luke Daniels, president of Caribbean Labour Solidarity, and Anthony Gifford discussed the latest developments in the Reparations campaign, relationships with the trade unions and the need for a mass movement in both UK and the Caribbean. At the First Pan-African Congress on Reparations, held in Abuja, Nigeria, in April 1993, Tony Gifford delivered a paper entitled “The legal basis of the claim for Reparations”.

Steve Cushion, author of the forthcoming book Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in … Read on ...