Why Reparations for African Enslavement is a Social Justice Issue for Everyone

A pamphlet from Caribbean Labour Solidarity

Britain’s Industrial Revolution was, in large part, made possible by the capital accumulation generated by the “business of slavery,” and the genesis of Britain’s banking and insurance industries can be traced to this same “business”.

The enclosure of common land in England was often financed by the profits from slavery. The effects of slavery are still with us. Sugar, the foremost product of the Caribbean colonies, has left a worldwide legacy of ill-health. And the fossil-fuel based industry, which the profits of slavery helped create, has caused the current climate … Read on ...

Choosing Poison or Principle? Belize, Cuba and Donroe

and What is Happening in South Africa?

Sunday 7 June 2026 at 2pm London time

Dylan Vernon will discuss the on-going diplomatic and economic pressure on Belize from the United States to discontinue the Cuban medical brigade and the response of the government and the people so far. This will be set in the broader context of how small states like Belize best face the dilemma of maintaining the principles of sovereignty and self-determination when a powerful empire flexes its economic and military muscles in the region. Do the states and peoples of the Caribbean get to choose their own … Read on ...

Remembering Winston Pinder: communist, campaigner, youth worker

A lifelong communist and community organiser, Pinder helped shape anti-racist and anti-colonial activism in Britain while dedicating himself to youth work and collective struggle, writes David Horsley

WINSTON PINDER, who passed away in London on 16 May 2026 aged 93, was born in 1933 in Barbados.

After leaving school Winston received a bursary to train with the Barbados telephone company. He was sent to (the then) British Guiana to work on the Demerara telephone exchange being built by the Bookers company where he became interested in trade unionism and the anti-colonial struggle taking place throughout the Caribbean, exemplified by the … Read on ...