PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE explains why opposing war is inseparable from defending jobs, wages and public services – and why readers should come to the London Peace Conference on Saturday June 20
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To understand Caribbean ‘decolonisation’ look up Richard Hart
ROGER McKENZIE recommends the work of the 20th-century Marxist activist, a founding member of Jamaica’s People’s National Party and a historian whose books showed the primacy of slave revolts in ending slavery itself
UPRISING: A plantation set alight during the Great Jamaican Slave Revolt of 1831-32
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As protests erupt over Henry Nowak’s murder, ANDREW MURRAY argues that anger is being exploited to advance a wider racist and anti-immigration agenda
CARLOS MARTINEZ explains the sound case for car manufacturing co-operation with China
The National Emergency Briefing outlines the need for urgent action to address environmental crisis, says PAUL DONOVAN, warning that there’s no time to indulge the arguments of the fossil-fuel-funded climate-change deniers
Campaigners say criticism of Labour MP Stephen Morgan’s position on Gaza has been met with police intervention and cancelled opportunities for debate. HESTER WOLFE reports
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights warns of escalation danger in Iran war
MARXIST thought in the Caribbean extends beyond the obvious trailblazers of the Cuban revolution.
The likes of Cuban revolutionaries Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Trinidad’s CLR James, Guyana’s Walter Rodney and Grenada’s Maurice Bishop have all made a huge contribution towards the theory and practice of Marxism in the region.
The problem is that after these names most people, even seasoned activists, will begin to struggle to add many other names, especially women, from the region to this list of great thinkers and activists.
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