THE bomb the Caribbean.
Cubans to present government.
zoolice Tne within the West Indies in the Grenadian revolution.
dian and a long-time NJM activist.
attack on Grenada's Prime Bishop two comes in the wake of his visit to Cuba where ed the Bishop régime of allowing the train guerillas in Grenada fol direct attacks on the Trinidad and Tobago The brutal response of the Trinidadian disturbances at the Augustine campus of the University of the April is directly related to the government's smear campaign against president students' guild and a leader of the student unrest, was singlea out by the police and beaten unconscious because he is Grenaexpulsion of Rose leftists from Seraphine and the action taken by the government of lom Adams in Barbados in witnarawing the work permiț or kalph La Marxist lecturer • at the campus of the University of the ol une lemusi Youlimou organisation in St Vincent — is part of the right-wing backlash to the up. surge of the Caribbean masses initiated by The response of the US and Canadian owned bauxite companies to Manley's inposition of a bauxite levy in Jamaica in anu-m peransi pronouncements was classic. They simply cut until his attitude 'An article ih Caribbean Contact last showed that while the US - aluminium companies doubled theit bauxweeks ago MICHAEL MANLEY Trom amala by. 30 • per cent. Ine net reduction in US bauxite imports was 20 portant industry after bauxite, has also een the target of imperialist pressure.
•ol unc wancy covermcil. mie oooosWhile the 'New Jewel' island of Grenada threat from the United States, FITZROY AMBURSLEY unravels the revolutionary developments which are rocking the once quiet Caribbean.
tion Jamaica Labour Party, led by Edward Seaga, openly supported this cam•alga. wich resultca m a sharo rcaucuon in the number of tourists visiting the Is and During this period a massive flight of capital abroad ment to seek financial assistance trom.tne International Monetary Fund inis nas been the damaging effect on th Jamaicao economv or me olorice rises particularly since the bauxite industry requires enormous amounts of the fue accounting for some 51 per cent of total oil imports.
The net effect of these develonments has been to thrown Manley's reform programme off course and plunge the country WOrSI since 1937. consumption, such as rice, salt-fish, soap ana kerosene or are benna ranonec The announcement that a general election will be held later this year has already led to a revival of the deep animosities between the PNP and the JLP, and political violence has become the order of the day According police violence claimed 50 lives between January and the end of April Opinion poll accumc m sudoort or Manevs ment, and a shift towards the JLP. main basis of the JLP's platform is antithe party organised demonstrations and vigilante groups to harass the Cuban doc tols air technicials who are assisting lile Jamaican government.
Despite the crisis on the island, Seaga is now calling on PNP share, at Wing tne country In practice taneous Its own eros of political place, obliging bean.
Added to munities here Grenada.
: economic and social crisis Basic items of working class trai Salvador, ligures political the consistently show Also • govern- Iran, an • The published Single severity of the economic lenaing insututions not to provide aid because such assistance could be interpreted as support for the ruling PNP. He nas Inreatened to alsnonour any agree ment entered into by the Manley régime should his party be elected.
This is undoubtedly part of the reason governments attempt, since 1 February, torecisance its debts of US S650 discussions with IMF to commercia banks Is with little success. According to Chaunce Mistercur ivews.
Carter s ivanonal security Council is sup: porting Seaga's campaign and helping to destabilise the Manley government Ine dosence of any credibe socials alternative to the PN helps to explain the growing shift to the right in Jamaica. The pro-Moscow Workers' of Jamaica, headed by It has adopted a policy of 'alliance and struggle' with the PNP government which las incall. lo cuole an auce mme Morn ing Star on 4 June, that "The WPJ and the Fi least programmatically, a common view of the maior problems fac this has led to the WPJ refusing to mount an effective challenge to Manley's policies since, in its analysis, this would play into the hands of the right. Ir the 'gas demonstrations' of January 1975 une party onysicals roke up a spon movement of discontent and allowed the JLP to exploit the situation The period ahead will see a heightening tension and mass upheavals nougnoul me English-speaking Carib British socialists and the black com nave an important respon sibilly to bulla a movement or sondarit! with the masses of the Caribbean and Cen tral America; to oppose US destabilisation of the Jamaican government, ana to de fend the revolutions in Nicaragua and Intercontinental Press combined with / I Intercontinental Press/Inprecor this week continues its coverage of CenAmerican politics assessment of developments in E major article by Livio Maitan on Nicaragua and a report or attempted assassination Maurice Bishop in Grenada.
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he spoke at a mass rally with Fidel Castro and leaders of the Nicaraguan revolution. Political upheaval is in evidence all round
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Jamaica's PNP régime led by Michael Manley is under attack from the right wing.