SEA "TO BAGO TRINIDAD VENEZUELA O MUES 109 'OUR revolution is irreversible, and I say to the over ento ter avoid you wall avoid revolution yourselves, liberate your peoples'.
This was the warning issued by Maurice Bishop when he overthrew the Gairy dictatorship in Grenada last March.
In the months following, right-wing Burchul ments have been ousted in the IWO islando int Windward islands Dominica and St Lucia Grenada itself, although limiting policies nationalisations and system of 'democratic assemblies, has since Soctallet Challe • 13 $ looked to Cuba for aid and has warned against any US intervention. St Lucia has also reportedly sent hundred men to train in Cuba as the nucleus of a peoples' revolutionary army.
Little wonder then that US Secretary of Cyrus Vance now calls the Caribbean 'trouble spot', and looks worriedly to see how far the ripples of revolutionary change may spread.
Burnham: facing mood oj discontent in Guyana Grenada, Dominica and St Lucia were all islands directly dominated propped up by imperialism through right-wing puppet TELLS But in the Caribbean there are also regimes, notably in wuyalla Jamaica, which call themselves 'co-operative socia list' and 'democratic sociaThe Peoples National Congress government Guyana, headed by Forbes actually Burnal, brought to power CIA aid in 1953 to prevent the pro-Moscow Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) under Cheddi Jagan coming to power. It bureaucratically and corruptly, relying heavily on Monetary Fund loans, despite populist and sometimes Marxist jargon.
Although Michael Manley's Peoples National Party in Jamaica had a large majority at the last similar hance the IMF discredited 'socialism' in the eyes of the masses.
The failure of either government to break with imperialism has left the and masses in both countries at the mercy of continuing economic crises dictated by imperialism and the world market.
There are movements of discontent making ana and Jamaica a second headache for imperialism Headache however, is not the only one with a headache over these developments. They light the illusion of any "half-way house" to sociarules lism.
The movement of the urban inasses themselves, as happened in Grenada, has posed a possible alternative pattern to the failed and already rotten reformism of the Manleys and the Burnhams.
More than this, it has pointed up the bankruptcy те- of the policies of 'critica has support' for those regimes pursued by the Stalinist led parties such as the PPP in Guyana and the Workers Party of Jamaica. GuyhighMaurice l -looksto Cabaforai
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