{"id":1596,"date":"2023-08-15T07:26:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T06:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2023-08-15T07:26:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T06:26:57","slug":"crofton-st-louis-1940-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/?p=1596","title":{"rendered":"Crofton St. Louis (1940-2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Our friend and comrade, Crofton St Louis, Past President of Caribbean Labour Solidarity, has passed away.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1597\" src=\"http:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/croffie-177x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/croffie-177x300.jpeg 177w, https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/croffie.jpeg 603w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/>The late Cde Crofton &#8220;Croffie&#8221; St. Louis, Grenadian Patriot, internationalist and spirited revolutionary died in his homeland Grenada, yesterday morning at age 83. He was a fierce supporter of the Cuban Revolution; a lifelong activist member of the UK-based Caribbean Labour Solidarity (CLS); a founding member of the Committee for Human Rights in Grenada (CHRG- UK) founded in the wake of the US military invasion and occupation of Grenada in October 1983. Cde. &#8220;Croffie&#8221; was also a founding member of the NJM UK branch together with the likes of Cde. Kwabena Dennot Nyack, distinguished Windrush lawyer Jacqui Mc Kenzie; Cdes Alan and Noreen Scott, Cde Jean Tate and a friend of the British Trade Union Movement. Cde. Croffie lived between his homes in SE London and Grenada. SALUTING HIS MEMORY &amp; HIS WORKS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend and comrade, Crofton St Louis, Past President of Caribbean Labour Solidarity, has passed away. The late Cde Crofton &#8220;Croffie&#8221; St. Louis, Grenadian Patriot, internationalist and spirited revolutionary died&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaigns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}