Police Violence, Community Safety and Justice in Jamaica

The slides of Paul’s talk can be downloaded from here…

For many Jamaicans, Caribbeans and other colonised people, encounters with the police are too often characterised by fear rather than trust. Caribbean Labour Solidarity (CLS) invites you to join this important public discussion on the urgent need to transform policing in Jamaica into a service that protects communities, respects human rights and is fully accountable to the people.

Paul G Ward, an Executive Committee member of CLS, long resident in Jamaica, will present the case that if Jamaica is to become … Read on ...

A pamphlet from Caribbean Labour Solidarity

Free to download here…

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 ...

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 ...