the commitment to principle to vote against Israel in the United Nations zor ine bombing or tne installatons in raq.
So in terms of foreign policy the results have been very significant. Jamaica was a country inal really worked hard for South/South cooperation. That's disappeared.
The government has committed itself to a complete reversal of those policies that aimed at trying to lay a basis for increased economic reliance. We had established a considerable apparatus in which foreign involvement was rationed with import controls, price controls which were all aimed at creating on the one hand maximum opportunity for the develpment of economic activity aimed at the satisfaction of internal needs. This has been reversed.
What is happening now is that the Jamaican economy is being opened to the America. It has already had the affect Illass production everything. divestment private industry.
dent capitalist path.
self work democratic tne scnool system I0l listalice, ucipanon in mausu) been brought to an end.
North trying to get foreign capital in to do There's a programme of things that had been nationalised are de-nationalised, explicitly handed back to the private sector. As a result, quite heavy layoffs are taking place in some kinds of industry that can't compete; in the state as well as We are in the process of resuming a completely depenThe things that we were trying to deepening process have all been reversed. We had begun to develop in SLudent participation in decision making; the development of community councils, the programme of workers' par- all that has The violence has stopped. It's not part of our strategy. And they don't use it because they're in power now stualioli another aspect of it. Venezuala has territorial claims on Guyana which are rooted in an interpretation of the political phase perialism; that Guatemala has a claim on Belize that is rooted in the same interpretation of history. The Malvinas are still colonial so that we see that as being one factor in trying to determine what is right.
On the other hand, Guyana and Belize are independent nations who right now are under threat. Two other countries are saying that they should not have some of the territory that they have because we claim that the British shouldn't have had Guyana, Belize and the Malvinas in the first place. They say that now that you've won your independence from Britain you shouldn't have it. We can't accept that. We stand absolutely behind the unassailable right of Guyana and Belize to defend and maintain the sovereignty and integrity of their territory. So we see it as a very complex imIDONT think it's ensugn is feei world around you sart of The solutior cart of the probier the right to also impelled to act country or example and to a meeting fullof compan="= -de-standas e murt and yet you ask imam wina?
people You have to look a the • and become instead of a Nocods has compiar who's not mary tarci something that sons D'ogressins " is grogress ve?
Rise socie hare Socialist Challenge 9 July 1982