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Pakiko Nos Ta Skibi, O Ken Tin Miedu Di Un Federashon Karibense Djabou?

Pakiko Nos Ta Skibi, O Ken Tin Miedu Di Un Federashon Karibense Djabou?

Why We Write, or, Who’s Afraid of Caribbean Federation from Below?
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Clash! Collective
Tribute to Franklyn Harvey

Tribute to Franklyn Harvey

Remembering an outstanding radical of the Caribbean New Left
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Matthew Quest
The Situation in Haiti and the Caribbean: People Don’t Know Exactly What They Want

The Situation in Haiti and the Caribbean: People Don’t Know Exactly What They Want

Can we discover a popular democratic vision out of the chaos in Haiti and the machinations of Caribbean governments that work with empire?
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More than Survival: A View of the Indo-Guyanese Contribution to Social Change (1988)

More than Survival: A View of the Indo-Guyanese Contribution to Social Change (1988)

In Part 1 of a series Eusi Kwayana analyzes the Indo-Guyanese contribution to history, politics, and culture
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Eusi Kwayana
The CARICOM-Digicel™ Reparations Top Up

The CARICOM-Digicel™ Reparations Top Up

O’Brien’s top-up approach will protect private capital interests while offering paltry benefits to the descendants of enslaved people.
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Ryan Cecil Jobson
Joseph Edwards: “The Consequences to Rahtid” (February 1974)

Joseph Edwards: “The Consequences to Rahtid” (February 1974)

Joseph Edwards, a Jamaican refrigeration mechanic, spoke of radical labor politics in Rasta idioms. Let’s reason “to Rahtid!”
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Why We Are Not Shocked: Black-Led Governments Prepare to Invade Haiti

Why We Are Not Shocked: Black-Led Governments Prepare to Invade Haiti

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Origins of Contemporary Racial Insecurity in Guyana: 1953 British Invasion, Attack on the Movement…

Origins of Contemporary Racial Insecurity in Guyana: 1953 British Invasion, Attack on the Movement…

This larger essay was edited into a letter to the editor to The Guardian (UK) in response to a recent series posted online August 19, 2023…
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Eusi Kwayana
Butler vs the Two Kings: On the Trinidad General Strike of 1937

Butler vs the Two Kings: On the Trinidad General Strike of 1937

What lessons can we draw from the fires of 1937? We can remember CLR James and his praise for Uriah Butler’s authentic Marxism without…
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Ryan Cecil Jobson
Why Don’t We Say Her Name? The Police Murder of Beverly Jones in Trinidad — 50 Years Later

Why Don’t We Say Her Name? The Police Murder of Beverly Jones in Trinidad — 50 Years Later

The pregnant, seventeen-year-old Jones, one of the young women insurgents in NUFF, perished in a rifle war with Trinidad police in 1973.
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Ryan Cecil Jobson
Gun Chune Government? The Call to Light Up Criminals in Trinidad

Gun Chune Government? The Call to Light Up Criminals in Trinidad

Kamla appropriated the language of “gun chunes” not to defend the poor, but to encourage middle-class citizens to defend their property.
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Slap Down Antigua’s Gaston Browne!

Slap Down Antigua’s Gaston Browne!

Browne wants to force Barbudan communal lands into capitalist market relations.
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New Beginning: Self-Organization of Trinidad’s Unemployed (1973)

New Beginning: Self-Organization of Trinidad’s Unemployed (1973)

In 1970 the unemployed were the ones in the vanguard of the struggle.
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Guyana: PNC-State vs Amerindians (March 1976)

Guyana: PNC-State vs Amerindians (March 1976)

How does co-operative socialism appear when viewed from the interior, upriver, Akawaio homelands and waters?
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Ryan Cecil Jobson
Don’t Believe the Hype About Decolonizing Dutch Museums

Don’t Believe the Hype About Decolonizing Dutch Museums

If custodians of cultural institutions claim to be decolonizing, then they should stop sabotaging our pathways towards Caribbean freedom.
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Jermain Ostiana
PAN-CARI: Proposals on the Fundamental Principles and Tasks (April 4, 1973)

PAN-CARI: Proposals on the Fundamental Principles and Tasks (April 4, 1973)

This historical document is evidence of the Caribbean Federation from below that was being organized in the 1970s…
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Matthew Quest
Eusi Kwayana’s Vision of Popular Committees of Labor and the Landless in Guyana Revisited

Eusi Kwayana’s Vision of Popular Committees of Labor and the Landless in Guyana Revisited

Eusi Kwayana has reflected that Guyana’s working class has not been given enough historical credit…
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Matthew Quest
One Queen for Another: Mia Mottley, Rihanna, and the Republic of Barbados

One Queen for Another: Mia Mottley, Rihanna, and the Republic of Barbados

We must ask what material changes a republic entails and its consequences for the masses of working people in the Caribbean.
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Ryan Cecil Jobson
The Two Souls of Caribbean Unity: Federation from Above or Below?

The Two Souls of Caribbean Unity: Federation from Above or Below?

We, who advocate a genuine Caribbean federation from below, must resist the capture of this desire by symbolic gestures and elite compacts.
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Ryan Cecil Jobson
“No Bad Sharks in Bim”: Kendall Roy, Offshore Capital, and Caribbean Reparations

“No Bad Sharks in Bim”: Kendall Roy, Offshore Capital, and Caribbean Reparations

How does Barbados come to serve as the cinematic backdrop for the fraternal conflicts of privileged heirs?
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Ryan Cecil Jobson
Doctor Politics and One-Menism: A Caribbean Tradition of Criticism

Doctor Politics and One-Menism: A Caribbean Tradition of Criticism

Caribbean toilers, in their own idioms, challenge elite representative government, trade union hierarchy, and degrading party politics.
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Matthew Quest
Gas Pains and Coal Pots: Oil and the Old Politics in Trinidad and Tobago

Gas Pains and Coal Pots: Oil and the Old Politics in Trinidad and Tobago

The political class, in other words, has been content to “eat ah food” — helping themselves to public funds in times of austerity.
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Ryan Cecil Jobson
Jamaican Independence: The Fraud of Those Who Drone Above Society

Jamaican Independence: The Fraud of Those Who Drone Above Society

Drone can mean to murmur, but it is also a means to target assassinate from the sky Jamaican commoners. What is the meaning of…
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Clash! Collective
Afro-Caribbean Liberation Movement (ACLM): Thesis on Liberation (1975)

Afro-Caribbean Liberation Movement (ACLM): Thesis on Liberation (1975)

This historical document by ACLM (later Antigua Caribbean Liberation Movement) illustrate how Caribbean radicals saw post-colonial rulers.
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Clash! Collective
BARBUDANS WILL WRITE THEIR OWN HISTORY

BARBUDANS WILL WRITE THEIR OWN HISTORY

Others have pointed out that the Barbudans lost command over their lives the moment Barbuda was linked to Antigua in 1860.
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Alvette E Jeffers
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