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| Dave Horsley at the seminar |
by New Worker
correspondent
Comrades
gathered at the Sid French library at the NCP Centre in south London last
weekend to hear David Horsley talk about the life of the Jamaican communist,
Billy Strachan, who did so much to help the Caribbean community in London after
the Second World War.
Billy Strachan was an RAF veteran who
settled in London to help found Caribbean News, Britain’s first black British
monthly newspaper dedicated to Caribbean independence, socialism, and
solidarity with colonial and oppressed peoples. But Strachan’s communist views
and his staunch support for the Daily
Worker and its successor, the Morning
Star, has resulted in him being largely ignored by historians.
To redress the balance, David Horsley has
written a pamphlet about Strachan’s life and he will be speaking about him at
the Marx Memorial Library early in the New Year.
The Billy Strachan pamphlet, which is
published by Caribbean Labour Solidarity, costs £2 and copies of this booklet
are available from David Horsley, whom you can email at: ukdavid.d@gmail.com
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