| Summary: | In 1938, a new movement began in Jamaica that forced the British government to embrace universal suffrage and, ultimately, independence. Begun by workers agitating for better wages, it was co-opted by trade unionists and became part of a larger focus on self-government. As the movement evolved, the rhetoric became increasingly radical. The ideology of the movement found its way into written form in the Jamaica Labour Weekly, published by Hugh Buchanan and Stennett Kerr-Coombs. As part of a broad strategy to halt the movement, authorities prosecuted the Weekly publishers for seditious libel. This article traces their prosecution and six-month sentence and places it in the context of the 1938 uprisings.
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