By Kennedy Earle Clarke — 23 August 2022
Dear reader, in order for any country and its people to have the impeccable Leadership that is divinely due to it, I am historically bound to mention the Leadership of the island of Cuba. Fidel Castro was born into the privileged class; his father owned lands; he attended the best schools and Universities and became a Lawyer. Just as Thomas Manchester of the Planter Class was touched by the deplorable plight of the workers and formed the Workers League in 1932 — which eventually merged into the St. Kitts-Nevis-Labour Party — so too Fidel Castro and his brother Raul were touched by the plight of the ordinary Cuban citizens, where 70% of 11 million Cubans could neither read nor write. Fidel was so touched by the plight of his unfortunate people that he discarded his prosperous Law Practice to descend into the trenches to fight dictator Fulgencio Batista for the real liberation of his people. Two years after the 1959 Triumphant Cuban Revolution, the United Nations declared Cuba illiteracy-free in 1961. Today, Cuba has produced more Medical Doctors than any developed country in the world.
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, our First National Hero, along with Paul Azariah Southwell, Joseph Nathaniel France, F.T. Williams, Jamesie Liburd, travelled to every sugar estate on the island, encouraging those workers who still worked for their former slave masters under the same slave-like conditions to join The Trades and Labour Union. Since 1834, the Emancipation of slavery was proclaimed in England and all her Colonies, but the slave owners haggled over the loss of their property for four years. After being compensated, the chains were eventually taken from the hands and feet of the slaves, but they still continued to work for the same slave masters under the same slave-like conditions. The sugar estate owners saw the Trade Union Team as a threat to their continued extraction of cheap labour and humongous profits. While the estate owners detested the presence of the Trade Unionists, the oppressed and exploited sugar estate workers regarded them as Saviours. To be continued.