The Grenada Revolution: The Fruit, the Priest and the Jewel

Lautaro Rivara Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop (center) with a woman of Grenada’s Carriacou island. On March 13, 1979, on the island of Grenada, one of the most hopeful and unknown revolutions of our region began. This is the story of the small country that dared to make a great revolution. Grenada, or How to…

Maurice Bishop and the New Jewel Movement Protected a North-South Relationship Outside the Bonds of Global Neocolonialism

Owen Schalk nearly ten years later look at me here analysing  still distraught and debating  sympathising synthesising  regretting and remembering  and time  just passing  – “Nearly Ten Years Later (For Grenada)” by Merle Collins October 16 marks 38 years since the death of Maurice Bishop, leader of the tragically short-lived People’s Revolutionary Government of Grenada…

Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us

The filming was completed shortly before the tragedies of October 1983 in this colorful work produced by the Caribbean Research Institute. John Douglas produced, filmed and edited the full-color work, and was co-directed by Carmen Ashurst and Samori Marksman and Douglas. Vinie Burroughs is the narrator of this 55-minute film. The film is listed as…

Grenada’s 1979 Revolution

Forever Remembered, Never to be Forgotten! Earl Bousquet The young revolutionaries of the 1979-83 era, at home and abroad, have all grown into advanced adulthood. It’s still quite uncertain why Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell has again set March 13, the anniversary date of the 1979 Revolution led by Maurice Bishop, as the date for…

What the Grenada Revolution Can Teach Us About People’s Power

Imperialism’s acts of aggression cannot serve as an excuse to not actualize the self-organization of the masses. Ajamu Nangwaya The collapse of the Grenadian Revolution on Oct. 19, 1983 should be carefully examined for the lessons that it might offer to organizers in the Caribbean who are currently organizing with the laboring classes. If the…

The Grenada Revolution and Women’s Struggle for Liberation

Socialist feminism is an ally in the struggle against capitalism, imperialism and racism. The Grenada Revolution, which lasted from March 13, 1979, to Oct. 25, 1983, gave the Anglophone Caribbean an example of a different developmental model. A compelling issue for radicals in this sub-region should be the approach of the People’s Revolutionary Government (PRG)…