Maurice Bishop Speaks: The Grenada Revolution and Its Overthrow 1979-83

Los conocedores de Pathfinder a veces la llamamos "la editorial de los martires" porque sus libros mas populares dan voz a generaciones pasadas; esta es un ejemplar glorioso. A Bishop era el primer ministro de la revolucion, y le hicieron martir en el momento que literalmente encabezo la resistencia a la contrarrevolucion.


From Malcolm X to socialist revolutioary   October 5, 2002
Andrew Hunt (Reseda, CA United States)
2 out of 6 found this review helpful

This is the story of a big revolution in a very small country.In 1979 the movement led by Maurice Bishop overthrew the local dictator of Greneda, one E.Gairy.Land reform,free education and health care, new forms of working people's power to replace outdated parliamentary "democracy" which led to the dictator in the first place, development of agriculture and tourism as national industries to benefit the workers and farmers instead of superrich foreign bosses : all this inevitablely infuriated Washington D.C. But most of all they feared and loathed the fact that Grenada marched alongside the other anti-capitalist revolutions in the region : in Cuba and Nicaragua.Read this book and find out why Fidel Castro said "Cuba, Nicaragua and Grenada are three giants rising up in the Carribean."Perhaps most interesting for fighters against the profit system in this country is the story of the evolution of Bishop and his comrades : from Carribean followers of Malcolm X to socialist revolutionaries.The Stalinist coup that assasinated Bishop and opened the door to Reagan and the Democrats' bipartisan brutal invasion in 1983 is also well covered here.Others in the Carribean will take the same road during the new Great Depression looming in our ( workers' and farmers' ) future.


Maurice Bishop's Imperishable Legacy   March 17, 2002
George Fyson (Auckland, New Zealand)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful

Advertisements for cruises and holidays to Grenada describe this Caribbean island as a place where "nothing much ever happens". The truth could not be more different. Less than 20 years ago Maurice Bishop led a popular revolution there that lasted for three and a half years and involved Grenada's working people of town and countryside in transforming their society and lives. The Grenada Revolution's giant strides in popular education, economic production, slashing unemployment, and developing national pride and internationalism, are graphically detailed in this outstanding book of Bishop's speeches that were made in the course of the revlutionary years. Bishop and the people of Grenada wrote an imperishable chapter in world history. The speeches address not just the situation of one small island, but the entire world faced with the crisis of capitalism that has sharpened greatly in the past two decades. This book is also valuable for the introductory analysis by Steve Clark of how the revolution was overthrown from within with the murder of Bishop and other revolutionary leaders in October 1983, plus indispensable documents from the Cuban government and speeches by Fidel Castro on Cuba's role in supporting the revolution.


A tool for our liberation   October 12, 2001
Tony Thomas (SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FL USA)
5 out of 10 found this review helpful

Maurice Bishop, the assassinated leader of the revolution in Grenada, was a great revolutionary leader, and his speeches and writings, his struggle not only for revolution in Grenada, but also in solidarity with revolution in Cuba, Nicaragua, Africa, and around the world are recorded here. Stalinist thugs assassinated him. This opened the door for Washington's criminal invasion that crushed the revolution. The words in this book will live. When working people, especially the peoples of the Caribbean, and the Black people of the US, Europe, and Africa move into struggle we will seize the Maurice Bishop's words in this book and use them as weapons to fight for our liberation.

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