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Subject file maintained by Bernie Grant as a Haringey Councillor and while Chair of the Black Trade Unionists Solidarity Movement (BTUSM). Includes minutes, correspondence, press clippings, reports, leaflets and associated papers mainly relating to the administration of the Haringey / Grenada Youth Exchange (ie educational project aimed at young disadvantaged Haringey youth, both black and white) organised by Haringey Council, and the campaign against military intervention in Grenada. Includes records of the BTUSM re their joint role with the New Jewel Movement in protesting against military intervention in Grenada and in providing assistance to Grenada eg minutes of the first meeting of the New Jewel Movement (NJM) / BTSUM Trade Union (TU) Working Group. See related records in the BTUSM collection. File also includes eg correspondence re general relations between Grenada and Britain; historical background papers re Grenada; papers re the launch of the Afro-Caribbean Bank proposal. Note that Bernie Grant maintained this file was undertaking the following roles: in 1982, visited Grenada as part of the Haringey/Grenada Youth Exchange; member of the Labour Movement Delegation to Grenada in the wake of the American military intervention 1983; was a member of the New Jewel Movement Support Group 1982 – 1984; and held membership the Executive Committee of the Committee for Human Rights in Grenada 1982 – 1984.