Crisis in the Caribbean

Fitzroy Ambursley, Robin Cohen

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781032703442
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040088906
• Topic: Política y relaciones internacionales
• Subtopic: Economía política

Originally published in 1983, this anthology was the first to integrate the political experiences of the Central American mainland and the Caribbean archipelago and provides analyses of some of the most explosive events of the 1970s and 80s in this region, including the Jonestown massacre, the failures of the Burnham regime in Guyana, the tumultuous elections in Jamaica in 1980, the army officers' coup d'état in Suriname, the revolutions in Grenada and Nicaragua and the revolutionary upheaval in El Salvador. It also shows how the regional crisis affected such prosperous countries as Trinidad and Tobago and such politically stable regimes in St. Vincent and the French colonies of Martinique and Guadelope. It also discusses the development of the first Socialist regime in the region, Cuba

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Original Title
• Original Copyright
• Dedication
• Map
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of Tables
• Chapter One Crisis in the Caribbean: Internal Transformations and External Constraints
• Chapter Two State Capitalism in Guyana: an Assessment of Burnham’s Co-operative Socialist Republic
• Chapter Three Achievements and Contradictions of the Cuban Workers’ State
• Chapter Four Jamaica: from Michael Manley to Edward Seaga
• Chapter Five Nicaragua: the Sandinist Revolution
• Chapter Six Class Structure and Socialist Strategy in El Salvador
• Chapter Seven Guadeloupe–Martinique: a System of Colonial Domination in Crisis
• Chapter Eight Class Formation and Class Struggle in Suriname: the Background and Development of the Coup d’État
• Chapter Nine Grenada: the New Jewel Revolution
• Chapter Ten The Changing Pattern of State Control in St Vincent and the Grenadines
• Chapter Eleven State Capitalism in a Petroleum-Based Economy: the Case of Trinidad and Tobago
• List of Abbreviations