File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-03-12.024, message 7


From: Michael Hoover <hoov-AT-freenet.tlh.fl.us>
Subject: M-I: Manley & Jagan
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 97 22:12:34 18000


> Forwarded message:
> > Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 20:49:37 -0500 (EST)
> > From: "Victor O. Story" <story-AT-kutztown.edu>
> > To: ATWS <thrdwrld-AT-sphinx.Gsu.EDU>
> > Subject: Legendary Caribbean Politician Manley Dies (fwd)
> > 
> > Michael Manley, the former prime
> > minister of Jamaica and a legendary figure in Caribbean 
> > politics, died 
> > With the deaths of Manley and Guyana's President Cheddi  
> > Jagan, also Thursday, the curtain has closed on one of the most 
> > turbulent and politically active eras in Caribbean politics 
> 
> I deleted everything else from the above post...both Manley &
> Jagan advocated free market policies in the twilight of their
> political careers - saying that there were no alternatives for 
> their impoverished countries...Jagan had been a Marxist...Manley 
> always rejected class-struggle politics (and told me so in a 
> conversation I had with him in the early '80s)...Michael
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