Workers Party of Jamaica
The Workers Party of Jamaica (WPJ) was a Marxist political party in Jamaica. WPJ was founded on 17 December 1978, by Trevor Munroe, along with Elean Thomas and others.[1] Munroe, a Rhodes scholar from Oxford University, served as its general secretary. The forerunner of WPJ was the Workers Liberation League.[2]
WPJ was a "critical ally" of the People's National Party of Michael Manley.[2] With WPJ backing the PNP government developed closer relations to Cuba, which irritated the United States.[3] However, in the late 1970s, the WPJ participated in Jamaican popular resistance to fiscal controls imposed on the country by the International Monetary Fund and accepted by Manley.[4] The 1980 elections resulted in a victory of the rightist Jamaica Labour Party. Manley's association with the communist WPJ may have contributed to his defeat.[3]
The WPJ youth organization, Young Communist League of WPJ, was a member of the World Federation of Democratic Youth.
By 1992 the WPJ was defunct.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Johnson, Buzz (31 July 2004). "Elean Thomas: Writer with a messsage of human rights". The Guardian. http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,11617,1273286,00.html. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
- ^ a b c Alexander, Robert J.; Parker, Eldon M. (September 2004). A history of organized labor in the English-speaking West Indies. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 56–57. ISBN 978-0-275-97743-6. http://books.google.com/books?id=fCmTbz1XdMwC&pg=PA56. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
- ^ a b Austin-Broos, Diane J. (1 January 1984). Urban life in Kingston, Jamaica: the culture and class ideology of two neighborhoods. Taylor & Francis US. ISBN 978-2-88124-006-5. http://books.google.com/books?id=0F7wXZK59ucC&. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
- ^ Nash, June C.; Fernández-Kelly, María Patricia (1983). Women, men, and the international division of labor. SUNY Press. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-87395-683-3. http://books.google.com/books?id=mRNh464TYQgC&pg=PA138. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
[edit] Further reading
- Gray, Obika (2004). Demeaned but empowered: the social power of the urban poor in Jamaica. University of the West Indies Press. ISBN 978-976-640-153-5. http://books.google.com/books?id=qCMiXEp0c3UC&pg=PP10. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
- Meeks, Brian (2000). "The Political Moment in Jamaica: The Dimensions of Hegemonic Dissolution". In Manning Marable. Dispatches from the ebony tower: intellectuals confront the African American experience. Columbia University Press. pp. 52–74. ISBN 978-0-231-11476-9. http://books.google.com/books?id=ENJrADtZ3ygC&. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
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