six years under pressure from the Monetary Fund, which objects to 'democratic the PNP has tried to implement.
After the there was a massive growth in the left wing of the PNP. It demanded that the ment act to improve the standard of living of ordinary Jamaicans.
The PNP began to partially nationalise foreign-owned bauxite mining companies, increased the taxation overseas business interests, unemployment and increased social services and assistalle to small farmers. Even these limited reforms brought disapproval Washington and London.
Bankers American business threatened by overseas governments. the CIA is caled in to sort things out. It has been Gula destablisation since BLUICEL Manley was elected.
The CIA's Jamaican station is now the third largest in Latın America. The agency's aim is to undermine the PNP through vi calle Wallic economic sabotage and terrorist actions.
Recent articles in the US press have disclosed that the Security Council, headed by Carter, has advised Ivestors to stop "supplying the assistance capital' Manley's government.
In April this year, the IMF demanded massive cu 10,000 which would have caused redundancies local would provide further loans.
The PNP refused to carry out these cuts and the economic effects were immediate.
Without credit, obliged to pay for all imports with cash in foreign currency. There are widespread shorLacc of oil and goods. After the split with the Thatcher also stopped credit guarantees for exports to Jamaica.
As in Chile, they will not stop short of a military coup The main sumarter of the IP the right-wing newspaper tie uleuner, wich declared in June: JAMAICA: poverty stays while IMF leaves to other countries, men bening him spending long ago taken. the governmenta most Third World In most betore it countries among others, in forced exile or buried in common graves.' Jamaica is ing threatened throughout the Caribbean.
consulte White House desperate measures to ensure that Jamaica does not go the same way.
As the Dankers abandonea Jamaica the Cuban government steppea up Ils ala.
Jamaican despatched 'In many Jamaica. Cuban aid and the All the the successen da, successful overcome sabotage violence.
The Shal ell somebody with a disciplined force of would have tend public services, Third our ministers, Manley.
Unlike would now be government, American interests are beThe successful Grenada and and depravation have forced the take providing materials. truly mutual aid teams of aid sure that Manley to win the election.
opinion polls show but the PNP has to mobilise political sunport to countel destablisation programme. Allende's failure to mobilise in Chile led to the success of the Pinochet coup.
Active solidarity in Britain and the United States, and the aid and support from Cuba will only the PNP organises working people to the economic and right-wing policies of the PNP those ot the Labour Party lefts in Britain If Tony Benn wants to abolish the House of Lords and exnationalisation and he will face the same problems as Michae the Labour Manley rerused to bow to the IMF, and he has been hounded ever since. All that Britain and America have brought to Jamaica Is misery to Jamaica,' Coll said ambassador Estrada, 'to build, to improve the people's health and educational level, them basic Our relations are internationalist, and based on mutual respect and Solidarity is urgent to enJamaica doesn't become another Chile. SECRETARY of Defence Harold Brown has admitsubmarines in an attempt to build support for the proposed MX mobile missile.
public by the argument that unless it is developed, Soviet Union should choose to throw at them. now the Pentagon has been forced to admit that 'a Soviet anti-submarine breakthrough was not likely in this decade.
billion.
THE Polish events seem to be having a snowball effect; or, in this case a football effect.
demanding that footballers and other sports people who were on the factory payroll but did not work should be sacked or should actually do some labour in the factory.
workers at the nitrogen plant in Poland, were among those making these demands. forward with their demands unions, free of state control. wingers, but this is ridiculous.
North Korea KIM Jong ll has been appointed to a committee to Korean Communist Korean watchers say, makes Kim the favourite to succeed the exiting president when he finally shüf. fles off.
By a remarkable coincidence, Jong Il. ted that senior Pentagon aides have 'exaggerated', that is lied, about the vulnerability of the US Navy's Previously this missile had been sold to the US submarines will be sitting ducks for anything the Bụt The MX missile is costing the US public $34 First. came the renorts that factory workers were Women workers in the cotton mills at Lodz and Al amnow, southern Now the football coaches and managers have come for their own trade We've heard of left draft a report on the central committee of the North Party. The that president, Kim Il Sung, just happens to be the father of Kim Socialist Challenge 16 October 1980 Page 11
were applied to society as a whole.