Workers Party of Jamaica
The Workers Party of Jamaica (WPJ) was a Marxist-Leninist 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 (PNP) 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]
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Further reading
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- Struggle (Kingston, Jamaica), official organ of the Workers Liberation League - openly and freely available in the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)
