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Revolution 1979-83
I: The GrentMJ4
1982 Gran. da national budget. In a
radio add , January 3, 1983, aurice
. B' op describes this proce and m-
marizes it chievem nts: "What
. being attempted in thi democratic
ex rcise, comrade , a pooling of th
ideas and opinions of literally every
ction and ratum of our peop e. And
hat e discovered a virtual treasure
che of valuable and creative ideas com-
ing out of the concrete experience and
social pr ctiee of our People and being
offered by them in a loud, cle , un­
equivocal, and un lflsh manner, all in
the spirit of collective respo 'bility
to ar planning and chartin the eco­
nomic construction effort of the nation. n
It w this gov roment that w de­
feated by an oppo ition group ithin
B' op's 0 party, The
ovement. The . ation of Bishop
and his ciates g ve e Re Ad-
ministration the opening to inv de d
arrest this revo ution that they so hated
and feared.
During a recent trip to Grenad and
other Caribbean countrie , I found that
a discu ion is raging about th le on
of that defeat. This debate, naturally,
liberation.
For the fifth anni rsary of th re­
volution, arch 13: 1984, Grenada
to v opened, at great expe ,labor
and international cooper tion, their ne
airport. While urice B' op a in
ew York 1a June, he al ays did,
he invited people to "com to Grenada
and the revolution for yourselve ."
ow that this is no longer po ib ,the
be w y to " e" th re elution .
through Bishop's speech .
Som of the achievement that au­
rice B' op details in this boo are:
" th d wn of the r olution
22 000 people ho anted to or
could not find ork, en e did a
ce us I t year, April 1982, the unem­
ployment r te had dropped from 40
percent to 14.2 percent."
"Thirty percent of the 10 est-paid
or e in our country no longer pay
any income tax at all. 'Th or
ta e home all their money."
"Old- ge pensioners had their pen ion
inere d by 10 percent 1 year and .
year it i going up again by 12.5 percent."
In ddition to inereasing and 0 up­
grading health care and education, the
Grenada Revolution made the services
free because Prime .. er B' op
put it: "Genuine democracy - the
ability to participate, and the exercise
of that right - impHe the right to infor- ..
mation and the critical mastery of know-
dge. That is why one of "the ogans
of the revolution has been: -Only an
educated and productive peop e can be
truly free.' "
literally thousand of Grenadians
participated
recognize in
with which to
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