IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

Jamaica

Red Weekly No. 176, 25 November 1976 · p. 12 of the scan · 320 words

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page 12 of the scan

JAMAICA hit the news twice last week. was came me devoration orcer served on Philip Agee only days after he had revealed details of the massive increase in BETe occasion was the crowning of yet another Caribbean representative, creamsoeare.

World contest.

The two are not unconnected. Agee's revelations rip the covers right off the 'sand, sea, sex and sunshine' image ofJamaica which Cindy's promoters want The Jamaican Government, however, does not seem particularly concerned to @savow nis imace. bespie is anectu support for African liberation struggles, noticeably not among governments which protested the bidian apartheid of two — one black, one white.

CHIOS Julia Morley uT course ore anisel moans that 'it's a non-political contest'. Could she perhaps that to "politics won't stop me lining my own and Mecca's pockets ? Or better sull, as was examples of Western beauty' lined up for show last Thursday (including miss Jamaica nersel) - Its a white man's capitalist world; so who pays the piper, calls the tune'.

Agee has previously shown that this guiding principle is shared by Us intelligence, whose hideous 'successes' have been written up in blood Latin Amenica. cule a bit is diso Knowi about both US and British intervention in Miss the Caribbean Trinidad, Anguilla......

His naming of nine CIA agents operating in Jamaica and ine revelation tna millions of dollars have been paid to arm opposition thugs to burn. murder in Kingston add another country to the list, Manley, with an economic crisis also on his hands, has responded to the gunmen State of involving nightly curfews, the banning of meetings and demonstellons censorship, and detention without trial.

In this atmosphere a general election is schecuee torna vecember time imperialist interests hope that the present regime may be sufficiently discredite to make way ford stooge teame more amenable to US capital. That's the "destabilisation' works way smootnest. ony unis umer may not.

'All brothers' in

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