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Michael Manley

BACK COVER SYNOPSIS
This book boldly tackles the North-South dilemma. Between 1972 and 1980, with Michael Manley as its Prime Minister, Jamaica attempted to establish a democratic welfare state in the North American periphery. Steering a course between the Cuban revolutionary model and the Puerto Rican model of total dependence on the US, Jamaica was subject to harrowing economic and political pressure from the giant to the north. Pressure might be too polite a word. Many would say Jamaica was the victim of a deliberate policy of destabilisation of the kind familiar to the world from Allende’s Chile to Nicaragua and El Salvador.
This document of one small nation’s bid for economic and political self-determination, as well as an independent foreign policy, vividly illustrates the problems confronting many of the non-aligned nations of the Third World. But it also takes us further. With the lucidity of a seasoned statesman who has grappled with the lMF, the multinationals and the big powers, Michael Manley points beyond problems to possibilities. His analysis defines a third path: a potential unity of peripheral nations to challenge the authority of both East and West.

Published by Third World Media Limited in association with Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative Society Limited in 1982, first edition

CONDITION: Used but in generally good condition. Spine is not creased. Some yellowing and dust scuffs due to long-term shelf storage since acquired in 1982. [See images]

• 213 x 135mm
• 272 pages + 8-page b/w photo section
• Paperback