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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?
Clash! Collective
Jul 30, 2023
On Trinidad and Tobago’s New Coat of Arms: Symbols versus Substance of Decolonization and…
On Trinidad and Tobago’s New Coat of Arms: Symbols versus Substance of Decolonization and…
A new “coat of arms” for the Caribbean post-colonial state that is not fighting the empire of capital?
Zophia Edwards
Oct 14
One Year of Clash!
One Year of Clash!
We are heartened by those who engage in a shared commitment to bring about a new society directed by ordinary people in the Caribbean.
Clash! Collective
Aug 1
After Disaster: Restoring Power in the Caribbean
After Disaster: Restoring Power in the Caribbean
After ecological disasters, the Caribbean democratic majority may encounter their real power once again.
Clash! Collective
Jul 24
Hurricane Beryl at the Gates: The Grenadines and Caribbean Autonomy
Hurricane Beryl at the Gates: The Grenadines and Caribbean Autonomy
The people of the Grenadines must take the reins as disaster capital circles like vultures above their shores.
Ryan Cecil Jobson
Jul 9
Profits for Unilever, Pressure for the Trinidad and Tobago Worker
Profits for Unilever, Pressure for the Trinidad and Tobago Worker
Could the workers at Unilever Caribbean Ltd take over the factory and manage production on their own?
Zophia Edwards
Jul 25
The Cunning of the Silver Fox: The Caribbean After Basdeo Panday
The Cunning of the Silver Fox: The Caribbean After Basdeo Panday
Many want truths told about Basdeo Panday. But this requires more honesty about the terms of order of Trinidad and Caribbean politics.
Clash! Collective
Jan 8
Mr. Aristide Goes to Washington: The Truth About Lavalas, CARICOM, and the UN/US Invasion of Haiti
Mr. Aristide Goes to Washington: The Truth About Lavalas, CARICOM, and the UN/US Invasion of Haiti
Anyone who speaks on behalf of the people of Haiti while collaborating with Empire cannot be trusted.
Clash! Collective
Mar 22
We Called Him Mikhell Menlie: Jamaica’s Michael Manley Did Not Lead a Social Revolution
We Called Him Mikhell Menlie: Jamaica’s Michael Manley Did Not Lead a Social Revolution
As one elder said: “We called him Mikhell Menlie.” That is what those who uncompromisingly struggle in the Caribbean must learn to call…
Clash! Collective
Dec 12, 2023
Forward: Defend Gay Rights! (1982)
Forward: Defend Gay Rights! (1982)
This historical document reminds of a rare perspective advocated among the Jamaican and Caribbean Left in the early 1980s
Clash! Collective
Oct 15, 2023
Who’s Afraid of the Essequibo? Irfaan Ali and Nicolas Maduro, That’s Who!
Who’s Afraid of the Essequibo? Irfaan Ali and Nicolas Maduro, That’s Who!
The fact that no border is natural is precisely what allows the Essequibo to be manipulated by bureaucrats in Caracas and Georgetown alike.
Clash! Collective
Dec 12, 2023
Slap Down Antigua’s Gaston Browne!
Slap Down Antigua’s Gaston Browne!
Browne wants to force Barbudan communal lands into capitalist market relations.
Clash! Collective
Aug 4, 2023
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!”
Clash! Collective
Aug 14, 2023
The Secret War on Barbuda: Unearthing the History of Barbudan Secession
The Secret War on Barbuda: Unearthing the History of Barbudan Secession
Barbuda reveals the fraud of “independence” that consolidates power in the hands of political elites at the expense of working people.
Ryan Cecil Jobson
Apr 3
Killers of the Osage, Barbuda, & Belize: Will Caribbean People See De Niro and DiCaprio Play…
Killers of the Osage, Barbuda, & Belize: Will Caribbean People See De Niro and DiCaprio Play…
What might it mean that De Niro and DiCaprio, the famed progressive actors, actually play themselves as closeted criminals and…
Clash! Collective
Nov 21, 2023
Message to Our Friends in Kenya from the Caribbean Federation from Below / Ujumbe kwa Marafiki…
Message to Our Friends in Kenya from the Caribbean Federation from Below / Ujumbe kwa Marafiki…
Watu wa Kenya na Karibiani, (sio wasomi, wataalamu, na maafisa wanaosimamia maskini) wanaelewa kuwa tuna mapambano sawa.
Clash! Collective
Jun 27
PRESS RELEASE: Barbudans resisting destructive island developments ironically excluded from…
PRESS RELEASE: Barbudans resisting destructive island developments ironically excluded from…
By Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and Barbuda Land Rights and Resources Committee (BLRRC)
Clash! Collective
May 27
From Baracara to Brisbane: Shamar Joseph and the Search for Power in the West Indies
From Baracara to Brisbane: Shamar Joseph and the Search for Power in the West Indies
A new society will emerge when Baracara is not celebrated just for raising a world-class talent, but for nourishing a tradition all its…
Ryan Cecil Jobson
Jan 31
Mek Mi Fly Go Dubai: CARICOM and the COP28 Masquerade
Mek Mi Fly Go Dubai: CARICOM and the COP28 Masquerade
When the theater shifts from Dubai to St. John’s for the May 2024 SIDS Summit in Antigua, the Brownes may not be able to hide any longer.
Ryan Cecil Jobson
Dec 15, 2023
“I Not Going to Work Today”: Carnival Against Caribbean Rulers and Masters
“I Not Going to Work Today”: Carnival Against Caribbean Rulers and Masters
A tradition of Caribbean autonomy is preserved in the Carnival rites and anthems of today.
Clash! Collective
Feb 5
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.
Matthew Quest
Oct 17, 2022
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.
Ryan Cecil Jobson
Aug 14, 2023
Hold Your Applause: Irfaan Ali “Gestures” Toward Reparations in Guyana
Hold Your Applause: Irfaan Ali “Gestures” Toward Reparations in Guyana
If Ali fancies himself a real challenge, he will debate the terms of reparations with the ordinary people of Guyana.
Clash! Collective
Sep 26, 2023
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.
Clash! Collective
Aug 22, 2023
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.
Alvette E Jeffers
Aug 7, 2023
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