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A RECENT edition of the Morning Star (Thursday January 7) carried a letter from Tony Conway reminding readers about West Indian communists like Claudia Jones who founded the Notting Hill Carnival and Jamaican RAF pilot Billy Strachan who earned an equally important position as a leader of the anti-imperialist struggle all across the Caribbean and went on to assist and advise Caribbean leaders like Cheddi Jagan of Guyana. Over the last few years I have written Morning Star features on both Jones and Strachan. Looking over my notes on Strachan again I had one of those Eureka moments. Suddenly a bright light flooded into my lockdown-clogged brain.