Chemical and Atomic Workers' Union, has been talking about a labour party.
Most important perhaps was the recent conference of the InBrotherhood a major industrial union with a million members. It refused to endorse Carter's candidacy and debated the idea of a labour party, ana acciaca to lake the debate into the wider labour taken up the of the women's Have they sup business interests.
associated with the business community, government.
telligence Agency in the gramme economic sabotage against Manley.
speeches in the election campaign. The Red Cross murders this year alone.
The only thing is caused by plants and trees.!
because it reflected the struggle between classes. The American ferences between friends in the class.
Cuban ambassador, Ulises Estrada.
a revolutionary. That's why the JLP hate me.' Jamaica away from dependence on the main inter.
other third world countries.
jected to the PNP's 'democratic socialism'.
The International programme went into top gear.
with decisive counter-measures.
against terrorist attacks.
Twenty were faced the reforms ever seen in Latin America.
boots.' fluence of big business. promise with the capitalists.
is an alternative, ing it out.
working people and small farmers.
people.
ple.
ed, they have been removed and workers. To ensure militias.
own revolutions.
crease.
Kingston. militants of the PNP from Seaga's repression. THE result of the Jamaican election was a crushing defeat for Michael Manley's People's National Party. The only real winner has been American and British The right-wing Jamaican Labour Party has won 52 of the 60 parliamentary seats. The party is openly , and is pledged to reverse all the measures of the Manley It has been co-operating with the Central In'de-stabilisation' pro. anaterrorism Violence has been more noticeable than policy estimates that there have been over 700 political Contrast this with the US presidential election.
that breaks the boredom is the outrageous stupidites of Reagan (now dubbed Raygun), such as his claim that '80 per cent of pollution The Jamaican election was extremely violent campaign about dif.
American upper expulsion In a pre-election interview Estrada said that the JLP has accused Cuba of 'spreading subversion' in Jamaica. Explaining the Cuban aid programme, he added: 'I am not a terrorist or murderer. I am simply For the past seven years, Manley has steered national powers. Through the non-aligned movement he has sought closer links with Cuba and Manley infuriated the imperialist powers by introducing a series of mild social reforms. They obMonetary Fund demanded savage welfare cuts before it would advance further loans. Manley refused, and the de-stabilisation Like Allende in Chile, Manley did not respond This would have required organising working people to overcome. the economic sabotage, and to defend themselves ago the Cuban revolutionaries same problems. Their response was to carry out the most sweeping land Their country was invaded, and the Cuban people rallied to defend their revolution at the Bay of Pigs. Fidel Castro then announced that they would 'nationalise the Yankees down to the nails in their But Manley did not break out of the sphere of inHe took the road of comOn 2 October, the Financial Times reported a Jamaican official as saying: Manley will have to go back to the IMF. The PNP has no alternative.' There and just now the revolutionary governments of Grenada and Nicaragua are carryClear socialist measures can win the support of This. means breaking from parliamentary politics and placing the country's future in the hands of the ordinary This doesn't mean nationalising everything at a stroke. The Nicaraguans and Grenadans haven't done this. What they have done is attacked the power of the upper class and demanded that the latter operate policies favourable to working peoWhen the managers or police chiefs have refusreplaced by success. the revolutionary leaders have organised huge demonstrations, and both countries have armed the people and formed The lessons of Jamaica will not be lost on the leaders of Cuba, Nicaraguan, or Grenada. The JLP victory will encourage reactionary attacks on their The struggle in Jamaica is not over yet. The new government will attack all the measures of the Manley régime. Terror and violence is on the in Already fighting has broken out in the capital, Solidarity is now urgent to defend the Socialist Challenge 6 November 1980