'MANLEY Will Have to Pay the Piper; 'Manley's Day of Judgement'.
Headlines like from Newsweek have appeared in many American newspapers and magazines. They have set the tone for an open campaign by Washington, backed by US and Canadian big business, to topple Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley - whether through elections scheduled for the autumn or by other means.
On ‹ july in te Jamaican capital of Kingston, Louis Wolf, co-editor of the Covert Action Inhe said one the name of is ClA said were the names of 15 CIA officers in the US Embassy. assignment: bring Manley down.
the rush to get rid of Black Jamaica has economic, political, and strategic importance tor us imperials. WiLD largest English-speaking Caribbean island.
As the world's second largest bauxite producer, it provides much the used aluminium in the United States and Canada. Jamaica is a major sugar exporter as well.
While US and Canadian aluminium barons pull in huge proits trom Jamaica, ls peopie lace deepening poverty. The 'average' yearly income is £346. This statistic is misleading because the cent of the population at the bottom gets only 24 per cent of the national income - the same percentage skimmed off by the top five per cent.
Half the adult population is illiterate.
banks and corporations have had it easy in Jamaica for a long time. Independence from Britain in 1962 did little to alter imperialist domination of the island. But things are changing.
Jamaicans have been fighting back. The example of the Cuban Tas had a grooving miles A nas mao a crowig Invade. now the revolution in English-speaking Grenada is being felt also.
Under the pressure of the struggle of the Jamaicans for improvement in their lives, the government of Michael Manley, , elected in 1972, the Although is a capealismero, he proced "democratic SOCKS. these Their 4. In Michael Manley make ou Del black, Manley has tried to fend off dissent through repression.
unemployment rate of 30 per cent (50 per cent tried to fend off dissent through and by retression wing of the PNP, headed by DK Duncan. didn't work.
Jamaica uprisings armed island and Manley pulled back. He announced in earl would ignore a ceiling in demanded by IMF cut off all loans to Jamaica in December, he outright.
in Manley's PNP led Washington to doubt that he could block the Broad CuDa Washington had remained hostile price anyway, since Manley had retained friendly relations with Cuba and had positions at the September, nomr Edward Seaga for youth). vane purging the left Strikes and threat to spread throughout that 1979 that he aid was cut off. wages Now the the IMF. After the rejected ils termis point.
A resurgence of left-wing forces ' growing desire to Gane the planned military coup.
Panel predicting autumn supported many of Castro's knowledgeable foes seem far from confident. aligned conference in Havana.
Manley AFTER the decision of the Law Lords, ordering Granada TV to name the 'mole' at British Steel, journalists may well again look to the United States and pine after the Freedom of Information Act which operates there.
But in the US, too, 'press freedom' is not all it's cracked up to be.
Last week, a select committee of the House of Representatives approved a bill that would make it a crime to disclose the identity of a 'covert agent' of a US intelligence agency. The Bill would even make it a crime to try and expose such a spy, even if such an attempt was unsuccessful.
The measure is aimed at ex-agents like Phil Agee who has named hundreds of CIA spies, and Leonard Wolf, who publishes a newsletter that has listed an estimated two thousand CIA agents.
EL SALVADOR'S Commission for Human Rights last week accused the right-wing ruling junta of waging 'a war of extermination against the people'.
If that sounds like an exaggeration, junta member Jose Antonia Morales Ehrlich has threatened that the government's campaign against the left, liberals could leave 'at least 300,000 dead' before it is finished The guerillas fighting the government have vowed to launch an all-out offensive within 45 days. A statement issued by the freedom fighters said: 'We must take immediate action to lift the masses' morale before its combativeness is drowned by right-wing repression.' Secretariat of the Fourth International has called for 'all out action to stop the assassins of the Salvadorian junta'.
Said the United Secretariat: 'It is necessary to demand that all governments break immediately their diplomatic relations with the junta, and cease all military and economic aid. In particular it is important to demand that all parties defining themselves as part of the workers' movement, and who participate in any governments, demand that their ministers immediately blockade of the junta and of Salvadorian reactionaries.
"The trade and simultaneously organise a massive public campaign to denounce the crimes committed against the Salvadorian people, and to give full political and material support to the revolutionary organisations... who organise and co-ordinate the defence of the masses against terror.' India ABOUT 306m people, more than half India's population, was living below the poverty line in 1977-78, according to official estimates issued in India last week.
'WALL Street, here I come. Let's make millions of dollars together.' These were the words of Jerry Rubin, writing in the New York Times last week.
Rubin, older readers may recall, was a leader of the quasi-anarchist Yippies in the late 1960s and author of 'Do It Now!' Now Jerry is to become a 'securities analyst' on Wall Street experience on Wall Street was in 1967 when he and a couple of others threw dollar bills on to the floor of the stock exchange in a 'symbolic protest'.
Recalled Rubin: 'The floor brokers stopped trading and rushed after the falling dollars'. Now Jerry has decided to join the rush.
trade unionists and A timely statement recently issued by the United take up the question of a total workers' parties must — the heart of US capitalism. Rubin's previous