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(ll?.lt)llllll_] effects on the lll(?(ll£l r lilllllllill rmveirritiiity. I the l;l\/\/ r worn:-n r 1lt<' struggle against lll1(!l111)l()yl11t?lll, US. tlr.-+,t.il>ilir,.itieii tlllll (f.irililir-arr history. The introduction by Ricliartl llznt is ti |)()Ill<lll of the RtPV()lllll()ll, placing it in its historical context within the (I;iril>he.'in (If; .'i whole. llélll draws on the l\/linutes of the Central Cornniittee and his own personal knowledge to tell the story of the life and tragic death of the Revolution, and how the divisions in the leadership of the l\lew Jewel l\/lovement paved the way for the US. invasion and destruction of the Caribbean's most profound rupture with imperialism since the Cuban Revolution of 1959. Richard Hart became Grenada's Attorney General in 1982 and left the island following the U.S. invasion of October 1983. A veteran of the Caribbean struggle, he was a founder member of Jamaica's nationalist movement, was detained by the British in the 19405 and is the author of S/aves Who Abo//shed S/avery, a major account of the resistance to slavery in the Caribbean. Chris Searle, the editor, is an English writer, teacher and poet who worked in revolutionary Grenada for two years and helped to establish Fer/on Pub//shers, the Revolution's publishing house. He is the author of Grenada." The Struggle Against Destab///zat/on (Writers and Readers, 1983) and Words Uncha/neo’: Language and Revo/ut/on /n Grenada (Zed Books, 1984). ‘The name, Maurice B/shop, vv/// blossom /nto one of the most fert///s/ng symbo/s of creative express/on in the cu/ture and po//t/cs of T/76’ '99/'0/1-' George Lamming ISBN Hb 0 86232 248 O Pb 0 86232 249 9 In Nobody's Backyard Maurice [Bishop's Speeches 1979-1983 A Memorial Volume Edited by Chris Searle (at) /.cd Books Ltd 57 C l d R d L d N19BU In N0b0dy’s Backyard was first published by Zed Books Ltd., 57 Caledonian Road, London N1 9BU in 1984. Copyright © Chris Searle, 1984 Copyright (Introduction) © Richard Hart, I984 Typeset by Composer Typesetting Proofread by A.M. Berrett Cover design by Walter Castro All photos courtesy of Arthur Winner Printed by The Pitman Press, Bath All rights reserved British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Bishop, Maurice ln nobody's backyard : Maurice Bishop’s speeches, 1979-I983 : a memorial volume. l. Caribbean Area — Politics and government — 1945 I. Title II. Searle, Chris 320.9l82’l JL599.5 ISBN O-86232-248-O ISBN 0-86232-249-9 Pbk US Distributor: Biblio Distribution Center, 81 Adams Drive, Totowa, New Jersey 075l2 Contents ,/ Editor’s Preface vii Introduction — Richard Hart xi Maurice Bishop Lives — George Lamming 1 A Bright New Dawn 7 In Nobody’s Backyard 9 Organise to Fight Destabilisation 15 Beat Back Destabilisers 23 New Martyrs, New Patriots 31 Health for All — A Right of the Caribbean Masses 43 Education is a Must! 51 Work Towards Integrated Agricultural Development and Regional Co-operation 67 ln the Spirit of Butler, Unionise! Mobilise! Educate! Democratise! 77 Emulation is the Seed that Brings the Fruit of Excellence 89 Forward to 1982 — the Year of Economic Construction 100 Not One Human Right Has Ever Been Won Without Struggle 1 15 Turn the Words Around! Fight Unemployment Through Production! Heirs of Marryshow One Caribbean! For the Cultural Sovereignty of the Caribbean People! Long Live the Women of Free Grenada! ‘Every Grain of Sand is Ours!’ Forward to Peace, Genuine Independence and Development in a United America — Our America! We Proudly Share the Noble Dreams of Martin and Malcolm Appendix 1: Fascism: A Caribbean Reality? Appendix 2: ‘We Have the Right to Build Our Country After Our Own Likeness’ Editor’s Preface 'l‘he speeches in this volume were all made by Maurice Bishop in his capacity ZIS Prime Minister of Grenada and leader of the New Jewel Movement, the revolutionary party. Thus they stand not only as his own political testament, hut that also of the party and the revolution. A volume of speeches had been planned to be published by Zed Books as early as 1981, which was to include not only speeches made by Maurice Bishop, but also other members of the People’s Revolutionary Government, and Bishop himself had invited Richard Hart, a veteran of the Caribbean revolutionary movement, to contribute an introduction. That collection was never finally realised, ultimately due to the events of October 1983, and this present volume has been compiled as a memorial not only to a man who made a vital historical intervention in Caribbean history, but also to the revolution itself, which he led and symbolised. When we hear the news of the Revolution that morning, it was joy come out in the morning! Joy come out in the morning! As if I lifted up that morning! I lifted up above the sky that morning! The Revolution make me young again. I young now as if I just in me teens! Me energy come through that happiness of the Revolution. Long live the Revolution! Long live Maurice Bishop and his party! And we praying for them day and night, because they not seeking for one and not for the other, they seeking for all people, from a baby to the old. Thus spoke a 72-year-old woman about the revolutionary dawn in Grenada of 13 March 1979. Words of joy and a new youth coming from the lips ofa people whose experience of resisting attack after attack of imperialist pene- tration remains unsurpassed and continues more than ever today, and par- ticularly in Grenada, never tamed, always resisting, a green and brilliant bullet lodged in the heart of imperialism, whether coming from France, Britain or the USA. For the Grenada Revolution was a grasp of joy in the sudden unfolding of the actuality of power for the working people in one island in the one vii In Nrr.'mrl,i".\' llui-I\,1'rml ('ari|)hcu|1 nation, kl joy in the discovery that life unfulfilled could and would clizingc. be ll'tlllSl‘UflIIC(.l for a people who had known 400 years of transport- ation, slavery, colonialism, neo-colonial dictatorship and exportation to the cities of Europe and North America. Joy that the organised genius of ordinary people could at last be applied to develop their own resources for their own future. There was the joy of education, of seeing your children achieving free secondary schooling and your illiterate mother learning how to read and write, the joy of seeing wasted, unemployed youths forming co-operatives and planting the idle land. There was the joy of free health care, of walking to see a doctor or dentist in your local health clinic and knowing that the few dollars you had would stay in your pocket that morning, the joy of going on a Sunday outing and driving in one of your people’s own buses along the runway of freedom, a part of the magnificent airport being built in your own small island, the joy of repairing your own house on a Sunday morning with the voluntary labour of your neighbours, using the materials supplied through the government’s House Repair Programme. The joy of seeing your own agro- industrial products, your own mangoes and soursops tinned behind your own labels: ‘Made in Grenada’, of hearing your own poets proudly recite in your own language which your parents and grandparents spoke at your own organs of local democracy that scorned the Westminster imposition and colonial mimicry: all this was the joy that opened the Grenada morning five years ago. It was 110,000 people’s discovery of the world, and the ideas and struc- tures that could begin to make the world live in their island.
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