| 词条 | Workers Party of Jamaica |
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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.[4] 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.[3] 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.[4] 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] References1. ^{{cite web | url = http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,11617,1273286,00.html | title = Elean Thomas: Writer with a message of human rights | publisher = The Guardian | date = 31 July 2004 | author = Johnson, Buzz | accessdate = 31 August 2011}} 2. ^1 2 {{cite book|last1=Alexander|first1=Robert J.|last2=Parker|first2=Eldon M.|title=A History of Organized Labor in the English-Speaking West Indies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fCmTbz1XdMwC&pg=PA56|accessdate=31 August 2011|date=September 2004|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-275-97743-6|pages=56–57}} 3. ^{{cite book|last1=Nash|first1=June C.|last2=Fernández-Kelly|first2=María Patricia|title=Women, Men, and the International Division of Labor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mRNh464TYQgC&pg=PA138|accessdate=31 August 2011|year=1983|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0-87395-683-3|page=138}} 4. ^1 {{cite book|last=Austin-Broos|first=Diane J.|title=Urban Life in Kingston, Jamaica: The Culture and Class Ideology of Two Neighborhoods|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0F7wXZK59ucC&|accessdate=31 August 2011|date=1 January 1984|publisher=Taylor & Francis US|isbn=978-2-88124-006-5}} Further reading
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