Workers Party of Jamaica
Template:Short description 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Trevor Munroe, a Rhodes scholar from Oxford University, served as its general secretary. The forerunner of WPJ was the Workers Liberation League.<ref name="AlexanderParker2004">Template:Cite book</ref>
WPJ was a "critical ally" of the People's National Party (PNP) of Michael Manley.<ref name="AlexanderParker2004" /> With WPJ backing, the PNP government developed closer relations to Cuba, which irritated the United States.<ref name="Austin-Broos1984" /> 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.<ref name="NashFernández-Kelly1983">Template:Cite book</ref> 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.<ref name="Austin-Broos1984">Template:Cite book</ref>
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.<ref name="AlexanderParker2004" />
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Further reading
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- Struggle (Kingston, Jamaica), official organ of the Workers Liberation League - openly and freely available in the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)
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