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Activists to join Cuban ambassador in East London to commemorate 40th anniversary of US-backed Grenada coup

ACTIVISTS are set to join the Cuban ambassador to Britain in east London later on Saturday for a meeting to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the US-backed coup against the Grenadian Revolution.

Cuban ambassador Barbara Montalvo is scheduled to speak alongside local activist Jonathan Silberman, and Matthew Lord, who was part of the People’s Militia during the revolution, at the Osmani Centre, Underwood Road in east London from 3pm.

Maurice Bishop led the New Jewel Movement into an explicitly anti-oligarchic and anti-imperialist revolution in 1979, becoming prime minister.

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