Grenada:
Join the Caribbean Labour Solidarity
in Celebrating
the 34th Anniversary of
the Grenada Revolution

Thursday 13th March at 7p.m. 
The West Indian Association of Service Personnel WASP) 161 Clapham Manor Street, London SW4

Jointly organized by CLS & PASCF
(For more information contact CLS's President, Luke Daniels on 07440 790451
or at lukedaniels276@btinternet.com)
CARIBBEAN LABOUR SOLIDARITY
29, Myddelton Street, London EC1R 1UA, United Kingdom
Email: info@cls-uk.org.uk Web: www.cls-uk.org.uk

CLS invites you to join them in celebrating the 34th anniversary of the
Grenada Revolution, which saw the people take control of their own
destiny.

CLS will host comrade Selwyn Strachan, one of the leaders of the
Revolution, at this event. He will share his experience of hard won
success, look to the future and hold a Q&A session

BACKGROUND

After more than 350 years of enslavement and 150 years of
colonial rule on March 13th 1979 the people of Grenada
seized their freedom from Eric Matthew Gairy, whose rule
was neo-colonial at best but brutal in its worst excesses.
Over the following years the Revolution (Revo”) brought
great benefits to the people. However, on the 25th of
October, following the tragic events of a few days earlier, in
which the leaders of the Revo’ turned in on themselves,
leading to the killing of the popular leader, Maurice Bishop
and his followers, the US invaded Grenada to overturn this
bold chapter in the history of oppressed peoples.
With massive propaganda, the use of the US Army’s
Psychological Warfare Group and the “trial” of the remaining
leadership of the Revo’ (The Grenada 17), the US has
amplified the tragic mistakes of the Revo’ to turn the people
of Grenada against their own hard won and successful
victory.
After failing to kill the Grenada 17 during the invasion the US
used the trail to silence them politically. A number of
respected organisations such as Amnesty International, the
Inter-American Court of Human Rights along with the UK
Privy Council, declaring the trail to be unconstitutional,
irregular and unfair the 17 were sentenced to death or long
periods of imprisonment.
Despite these condemnations and the demands of the G17
that they be given a fair trial, they served 26 years of
imprisonment after having their death sentences commuted.
Selwyn Strachan, one of the 17, is currently in the UK and
will speak on the history of the Revolution, imprisonment and
the furore for Grenada and the Caribbean.
You are welcome to join us