IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

MICHAEL MANLEY JAMAICA STRUGGLE IN THE PERIPHERY

Socialist Challenge No. 253, 9 July 1982 · pp. 8-9 of the scan · 471 words

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struggle in ine nerinhery' readable, informative, and polemical givng real insight into the thinking of one ine MOST and influential Third leaders, insight dilemma of those politicians who colonialism. emoract philosophy but cannot in the final analysis break with capitalism and imperialism Manley coverniel jrom 19/4 10 1900 ana is a memoer of ine Second to which Labour Party belongs.

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by the International Monetary Fund. CIA and the oD mis-named Jamaica For example an astounding 750 people died violently in the run-up to the 1980 elections out of a population of periphery.

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le overcrowded and poverty-stricken ghetto which contrasts with the beauty spots so attractive to US tourists His has meant of neo-colonialism. foreign policy for example Jamaica's voice has been withdrawn from that group of nations which stood up for certain principles and tried to fight for certain things.

It was withdrawn from defence of the Democratic Front in El Salvador, withdrawn defence cerence of Jamaica no longer could even muster a great co-operatives, just through flood the nation with cornflakes. of Grenada. that's in retreat. of beginning to drive small business to the wall. Bankruptcies are occurring.

Tremendous growth in agriculture took place under our regime, partly through land retorm, partiy through farmers knowing that they could now teed the that nation because we weren't going to All force In the larger sense it's all aimed at What attitude did you and your party take on the Malvinas?

We take the view that fundamentally the Malvinas ought to be part of Latin America and that to have a colony in hemisphere is wrong. On the other hand I must tell you that we did not agree with Argentina unilaterally sending troops to take the islands by colleculicu Although the whole thing in the Malvinas was wrong we that is had to be resolved in a terrible war. Opportunity should have been given for it to be resolved through the United Nations, subject to the fact In 1974 illegal possession of a firearm was a crime punishable by mandatory life sentence. Those charged with gun offences were treated with shock therapy didn't see Malvinas validating dent territories. that we are very careful that any precedent about Argentina and the are interpreted as Venezualan and Guatemalan claims on two indepen-

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