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Bibliography of the Grenada Revolution Many books, reports, dissertations, magazine and newspaper articles have been written about the Grenada Revolution. A complete bibliographical listing would include over 8,000 entries of books, documents, journal and newspaper articles. Please link to Finding Resources to track additional information you can discover for yourself. The titles listed in this bibliography are a selection. Some titles are included because the authors were 'players' in the history of the Grenada Revolution. Because a certain title is listed does not mean the document is recommended. Certainty is never going to be achieved about what happened. Nevertheless, we can aim for 'hard' information. An article related to Grenada without facts, or one which throws in selective facts, is commonplace in the literature of the entire period. Be watchful for cherry-picking of facts, writer's self-preferred information, stacking the deck and for those tricky qualifiers. See if you can spot political agendas. Useful advice is that it is dangerous to read history backward. The saying 'a thousand possibilities don't make a fact' holds true in matters related to Grenada. Bob Woodward, author of "Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987," includes this quote by Ken Auletta in his "A Note to Readers": No reporter can with 100 percent accuracy re-create events that occurred some time before. Memories play tricks on participants, the more so when the outcome has become clear. A reporter tries to guard against inaccuracies by checking with a variety of sources, but it is useful for a reader - and an author - to be humbled by this journalistic limitation. Raw data is inconvenient. The ambiguities and the facts of differing realities makes one feel unsure. Just because you don't know the facts does not mean they don't exist. One person can quote facts and come up with a varying conclusion from another person who is using quoted facts. Facts are not dogmatic assumptions; for example, the knee-jerk assumption that the CIA is behind every action. Yes, the CIA has a history and you can list it, but not everything bad that happened in Grenada is the result of the CIA. Don't give the agency that power. Incompetence often trumps conspiracy. Facts require evidence in varying forms, but most valued is evidence in recorded form. Facts do not tolerate numerous inconsistencies. Facts are not a substitute for prejudice or preconceived conclusions. The books in this bibliography contain many 'facts' and many claims of 'facts.' Even corroboration of a 'fact' may not be true in the case of documentation related to the Grenada Revolution because some writers copied their 'facts' from other writers who claimed they had the 'facts.' Thus we observe an accumulation of 'Grenada Revo Myths.' What other means do we have for establishing facts? If a democracy needs an accurate history, how do we work through the passions, rumors and facts of the Grenada Revolution? Within the kernel called 'hearsay' or 'rumour' is often a truth. On the other hand, just because one 'heard' it, even if one 'read' it, might not make it true. One way to settle these matters relating to truth or what really happened is to celebrate a sense of balance with facts, to try to be fair. An additional way is to respect complexity, to abide with the unsurety of things. The optimum path to achieve a sense of how things were in this vital history of Grenada is to use source documents, find multiple corroboration, interview people, give critical consideration to the source, keep an open and creative mind, quote sources, use common sense, try not to interpret everything read as 'gospel truth' and avoid being sure one has all the answers. Matters are far more interesting in their varying shades of gray than in plain old black and white. With the Grenada Revolution there are no easy answers. Collections and Concentrations In the United States and the Caribbean, there are collections and concentrations of Grenada material. The major ones are listed below. You can visit each of these institutions, but it is imperative you check as each has its own rules and procedures. Link to Finding Resources to obtain research technique information. The Georgetown Collection; Special Collections at Georgetown University; Lauinger Library, on the southeast corner of the campus at 37th and N Streets N.W., Washington, DC The National Archives [NARA], The Grenada Documents Microfiche Collection; second floor, College Park, Maryland The [North American Congress on Latin America] NACLA Archive Collection [Grenada] can be found at many universities. A good research starting point, the two microfilm reels concentrating on Grenada [1974-1987] are "composed of ephemera and serials relating to socioeconomic and political conditions." The NACLA Collection is different from the journal published by NACLA of that title in which some issue articles concentrate on Grenada. The United States Army War College, The Urgent Fury Collection, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania The University of Florida at Gainesville, The Latin American Collection, Smathers Library, Gainesville, Florida The University of Texas at Austin, Benson Latin American Collection, General Libraries, Austin, Texas University of West Indies, Marryshow House Library, H.A. Blaize Street, St. George's, Grenada [now air-conditioned/humidity-controlled]. Primary Sources Primary sources are first-hand accounts—speeches and broadcasts, official and unofficial documents, statistics, newspaper articles of the period, recounts and memoirs. These are the 'I Was There' stories. The source is telling the 'facts' and 'opinions' as seen from their point-of-view. Self-congratulation? OK, if that's what the author invites. Fudging the particulars of events? Yep, that is what some of us do. Lying by omission? Never a good policy, but sure it happens. The point here is that even though the document is a primary source, this does not make for certain truth. The challenge of primary sources written by Grenadians about the Revo period is there are so few of them. Bernard, Callistus, They Could Only Kill Me Once, Hibiscus Publishing, ©2006 Bishop, Maurice, Forward Ever! Three Years of the Grenadian Revolution: Speeches of Maurice Bishop, Pathfinder Press, ©1982 Bishop, Maurice, In Nobody's Backyard: Maurice Bishop's Speeches, 1979-1983: A Memorial Volume, Zed Books Ltd., ©1984 Bishop, Maurice, Maurice Bishop Speaks: The Grenada Revolution, 1979-83, Pathfinder Press, ©1983 Bishop, Maurice, Selected Speeches, 1979-1981 Ediciones Casa de las Americás, n.d. [1981; 1982] Clarridge, Duane R., A Spy for All Seasons: My Life in the CIA [chapter on 'The Grenada Episode'], Scribner, ©1997 Crozier, Brian, edited by, The Grenada Documents, Sherwood Press Ltd., 1987 Emmanuel, Patrick A.M., Farley Brathwaite and Eudine Barriteau, Political Change and Public Opinion in Grenada 1979-1984, Occasional Paper No. 19, Institute of Social and Economic Research (Eastern Caribbean), University of the West Indies, ©1968 Gilmore, William C., The Grenada Intervention: Analysis and Documentation, Facts On File Publications, ©1984 Grenada Committee on Human Rights, Report on Human Rights Developments in Grenada [1970-1982], The Grenada Committee on Human Rights, November 1982 Grenada Foundation, Inc. George Louison and Kendrick Radix Discuss Internal Events Leading to the U.S. Invasion of Grenada, ©1984 Hughes, Alister, compiler, Violations of Human Rights in Grenada for Human Rights Research Project of the Caribbean Conference of Churches, August, 1977 Lewis, Sybil Farrell and Dale T. Mathews, (compilers), Documents on the Invasion of Grenada, Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of Puerto Rico, 1984 Martin, Tony, edited with the assistance of Dessima Williams, In Nobody's Backyard: The Grenada Revolution in Its Own Words, Volume I: The Revolution at Home, Majority Press, ©1983 Martin, Tony, edited with the assistance of Dessima Williams, In Nobody's Backyard: The Grenada Revolution in Its Own Words, Volume II: Facing the World, Majority Press, ©1985 McBarnette, Colville, compiler, Allegations of Human Violations in Grenada - Part 1 November, 1974 to July, 1977, Part II August, 1977 to February, 1978, Part III March, 1978 to May, 1978 - for Human Rights Research Project of the Caribbean Conference of Churches Menges, Constantine C., Inside the National Security Council: The True Story of the Making and Unmaking of Reagan's Foreign Policy, [Chapter on 'Grenada'], Simon and Schuster, 1988 Purcell, Joan M., Memoirs of a Woman in Politics: Spiritual Struggles, Agape Foundation, Grenada, ©2008 Ras Herb, Rehabilitation or Death [" . . . an account of the events which took place from the 25th to the 27th October 1983, from 'I' personal stand point."], Anansi Publications, St. George's, ©1991 Romerstein, Herbert and Michael Ledeen, Grenada Documents: Overview and Selection, U.S. Department of State and Department of Defense, U.S. Government Printing Office, September, 1984 Scoon, Paul (Sir), Survival for Service: My Experiences as Governor General of Grenada, Macmillan Caribbean, ©2003 Seabury, Paul and Walter A. McDougall (eds.), Grenada Papers: The Inside Story of the Grenadian Revolution, Institute for Contemporary Studies (ICS) Press, ©1984 Shultz, George P. Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State, [Chapter on Grenada], Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993 Strober, Deborah Hart and Gerald S. Strober, (compilers), The Reagan Presidency: An Oral History of the Era, Brassey's Inc., rev. ed., ©2003—["Urgent Fury' chapter interviews with Hudson Austin, James A. Baker III, Eugenia Charles, Duane Clarridge, William J. Crowe Jr., Donald Gregg, Alexander M. Haig Jr., Fawn Hall, Charles Hill, Geoffrey Howe, Craig Johnstone, Michael Ledeen, Robert C. McFarlane, Joseph Metcalf III, Keith Mitchell, Langhorne Motley, Manuel Antonio Noriega, Oliver North, John Poindexter, Charles Powell, Colin L. Powell, Kendrick Radix, Dr. Michael A. Radix, Donald T. Regan, Paul Scoon, George P. Shultz, Sergei Tarasenko, Victor Hugo Tinoco, John W. Vessey, Caspar Weinberger, Dessima Williams, Oliver Wright]. Current Listing of Bishop Speeches The Books of Fedon Publishing and the [Grenada] Government Information Service (GIS)
First International Conference in Solidarity with Grenada, November 1981; People's Revolutionary Government, Grenada Is Not Alone: Speeches by the People’s Revolutionary Government at the First International Conference in Solidarity with Grenada, November, 1981., Fedon Publishing, ©1982 Hodge, Merle and Chris Searle, (eds.), Is Freedom We Making! The New Democracy in Grenada, Fedon Publishing, (1982) Peoples Revolutionary Government, Re: Stanley Cyrus and James Herry., Government Information Service, 1981. Peoples Revolutionary Government, In the Spirit of Butler: Trade Unionism in Free Grenada., Fedon Publishing, (1982) Searle, Chris (ed.), Carriacou and Petite Martinique: In the Mainstream of the Revolution, Fedon Publishing, (1982) Searle, Chris and Don Rojas, compilers; editorials, interviews, ‘To Construct from Morning': Making the People's Budget in Grenada, Fedon Publishing, (1982) Major Secondary Sources These authors under the category Major Secondary Sources worked hard for their supper. They accumulated material from various sources, ordered and styled a narrative,opyright and the best of them attributed the source. Adkin, Major Mark, Urgent Fury: The Battle for Grenada, Lexington Books, ©1989 Beck, Robert Joseph, Grenada Invasion: Politics, Law and Foreign Policy, Westview Press, ©1993 Brizan, George, Grenada: Island of Conflict, Macmillan Education Ltd, ©1998 Cole, Ronald H. Operation Urgent Fury: The Planning and Execution of Joint Operations on Grenada, 12 October—2 November 1983, Joint History Office; Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff; US Government Printing Office, ©1997 DaBreo, D. Sinclair, The Grenada Revolution, M.A.P.S. Publication, ©1979 Grenada: The World Against the Crime, Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, ©1983 Jacobs, W. Richard and Basil Ian Jacobs, Grenada: The Route to Revolution, Casa de las Americás, 1979, ©1980 Lewis, Gordon, Grenada: The Jewel Despoiled, Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1987 Marable, Manning, African & Caribbean Politics: From Kwame Nkrumah to Maurice Bishop, Verso Press, ©1987 O'Shaughnessy, Hugh, Grenada: Revolution, Invasion and Aftermath, Sphere Books Ltd., ©1984 Payne, Anthony, Paul Sutton and Tony Thorndike, Grenada: Revolution and Invasion, St. Martin's Press, ©1984 Pryor, Frederic L., Revolutionary Grenada: A Study in Political Economy, Praeger Publishers, ©1986 Sandford, Gregory, The New Jewel Movement: Grenada's Revolution, 1979-1983, Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs, Dept. of State Publication, U.S. Government Printing Office, [1985] Sandford, Gregory W. and Richard Vigilante, Grenada: The Untold Story, Madison Books, ©1984 Schoenhals, Kai P. and Richard A. Melanson, Revolution and Intervention in Grenada, Westview Press, ©1985 Thorndike, Tony, Grenada: Politics, Economics and Society, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., ©1985 Trotman, Donald and Keith Friday, Human Rights in Grenada: A Survey of Political and Civil Rights in Grenada During the Period 1970-1983,The Bustamante Institute of Public and International Affairs, (1984) Williams, Gary W.,Prelude to an Intervention: Grenada 1983, Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 29, Number 1, February, 1997 Serials/Periodical Publications More than wants to be counted in this bibliography, articles on the Grenada Revolution appeared in publications, main-stream to alternative; from the National Review to Time magazine; from Soldier of Fortune to the Intercontinental Press/Inprecor; from the New York Times to local newspapers usually carrying wire-service reports. Below are selected major periodicals. See Periodicals for leads to others. Caribbean Review, Miami, FL, Volume 12, Number 4, Fall 1983 Hughes, Alister [columnist], Caribbean Monthly Bulletin, Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, 1975-1984 (monthly). [Hughes' Grenada section within Caribbean Monthly Bulletin was taken from issues of the Grenada Newsletter—see below]. Hughes, Alister [columnist], Grenada Newsletter, published by Alister and Cynthia Hughes in Grenada, established in 17 August 1973 until 1994. Jarvis, Robin [editor], The Nation: Special Supplement - The Bishop Killers/Bishop Trial Report, Bridgetown, Barbados, December 1986 Pierre, Leslie [editor], The Grenadian Voice, St. George's, Grenada Small Axe: a Caribbean Journal of Criticism, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, Number 22 corresponding to Volume 11, Number 1, 2007, a recent issue "On the Subject of Grenada" with contributions by David Scott, Merle Coillins, Edward L. Cox, Nicole Phillip, David Omowalé Franklyn, Susan Mains, Susan Meltzner, Oliver Benoit, Michael DeGale, Christene Clarkson, Canute Caliste, Meg Conlon, Esther O'Neale, Shirley Brathwaite, Jim Rudin, and Ron Sookram The BOMB weekly newspaper, San Fernando, Trinidad, circa 1970 - 11 June 1982 See also Newspapers During the Time of the PRGSpecialty Secondary Sources Many books were published in the 1983-1984 period and later. They have a definite point-of-view, of varying emphasis, expressed throughout the text. Not to disclaim their worth, these titles are useful within the scheme of Grenadian history. Ambursley, Fitzroy and Robin Cohen, (eds.), Crisis in the Caribbean, Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, ©1983 Ambursley, Fitzroy and James Dunkerley, plus the Latin American Bureau, Grenada: Whose Freedom, Latin American Bureau (Research and Action) Ltd., ©1984 Ashby, Timothy, The Bear in the Backyard: Moscow's Caribbean Strategy, Lexington Books, ©1987 Clark, Steve, "The Second Assassination of Maurice Bishop," in the New International 6: A Magazine of Marxist Politics and Theory, ©1987 Cotman, John Walton,The Gorrión Tree: Cuba and the Grenada Revolution, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., ©1993 Dujmovic, Nicholas, The Grenada Documents: Window on Totalitarianism, Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis and Pergamon-Brassey’s International Defense Publishers, ©1988 Dunn, Peter M. and Bruce W. Watson (eds.), American Intervention in Grenada: The Implications of Operation “Urgent Fury”, Westview Press, Inc., ©1985 The Ecumenical Program for Interamerican Communication and Action (EPICA) Task Force, Grenada: The Peaceful Revolution, EPICA Task Force, ©1982 McFarlane, Robert C., Special Trust, Cadell & Davies, ©1994 Millette, Robert and Mahin Gosine, The Grenada Revolution: Why It Failed, Africana Research Publications, ©1985 Searle, Chris, Grenada: The Struggle Against Destabilization, Writers and Readers Publishing, ©1983 Searle, Chris, Words Unchained: Language & Revolution in Grenada, Zed Books Ltd., ©1984 Tafari, Ikael, Rastafari in Transition: The Politics of Cultural Confrontation in Africa and the Caribbean (1966-1988), Volume I, published 2001 by Research Associates School Times Publications/Frontline Distribution Int'l Inc. and Miguel Lorne Publishers, Jamaica, ©2001 Ikael Tafari Valenta, Jiri and Herbert J. Ellison (eds.), Grenada and Soviet/Cuban Policy:Internal Crisis and U.S./OECS Intervention, Westview Press, 1986 Wagner, Geoffrey Atheling, Red Calypso: The Grenadian Revolution and Its Aftermath, Regnery Gateway Inc., ©1988 Ancillary Subject Sources Subjects run parallel, focus on one person/subject, or are helpful to understanding Grenadian history of the period from 1970-1984 - Caribbean histories, biographies of Grenadians, Grenadian histories outside 1970-1984 (especially the Gairy regime), cultural and political movements, and profiles/writings of Caribbean persons. Allahar, Anton L., editor, Caribbean Charisma: Reflections on Leadership, Legitimacy and Populist Politics, Lynne Rienner Publishers, ©2001 Allsopp, Richard, A Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Oxford University Press, 1996 Augier, F.R. and S.C. Gordon, compilers, Sources of West Indian History, Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., first published 1962. Barclay, Ceylon, Red Rum Punch: Forging into the first post-Communist quagmire with my partner Uncle Sam, Cross Cultural Publications, Inc., Cross Roads Books, ©1994 Best, Lloyd, Black Power & National Reconstruction: Proposals following the February Revolution, Tapia House, (1970) Brathwaite, Shirley Romain, Cacademo Grant: Hero of the People's Revolution, A CPE Production, Government Printery, Grenada, June 19, 1983 Brizan, George I., Education and Productive Work; during the regime of the People's Revolutionary Government, Grenada, Campbell, Horace, Rasta and Resistance: From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney, Africa World Press, Inc., ©1987 Clement, Paul C., Petite Martinique: Traditions and Social Change, , ©1999, 2000 Compton, Shadel Nyack, Gertrude Protain, Belmont Estate Heritage Foundation (Great Greanadian Series), ©2004 Conference Committee, Institute of International Relations & University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, (Proceedings of a Conference on the Implications of Independence for Grenada, 11-13 January 1974) Independence for Grenada: Myth or Reality? Institute of International Relations, 1974 Dennis, Colin, The Road Not Taken: Memoirs of a Reluctant Guerilla, Kingston Publishers Limited, ©1985 DeRiggs, Anthony Wendell, Island Reminisciences, and other selections, ©2007 
DeRiggs, Anthony Wendell, Recollections of an Island Man, ©2006 Devas, Raymond P., A History of the Island of Grenada, 1498-1796: With Some Notes and Comments on Carriacou and Events of Later Years, 2nd edition, Carenage Press, St. George's, Grenada, 1964, 1974 Fraser, Wilfred, Brotherhood of the Unicorn, Hibiscus Publishing, UK, ©2006 Gunson, Phil and Greg Chamberlain with additional material by Andrew Thompson, The Dictionary of Contemporary Politics of Central America and the Caribbean, Simon & Schuster, ©1991 Higman, B.W.,Writing West Indian Histories [Warwick University Caribbean Studies], Macmillan Education Ltd., ©1999 Hudson, Rex A., Castro's America Department: Coordinating Cuba's Support for Marxist-Leninist Violence in the Americas, Cuban American National Foundation, ©1988 Imported Publications 320 West Ohio Street, Chicago, IL 60610-4175 [catalog 1989-1990] Jacobs, W. Richard, editor, Butler Versus the King: Riots and Sedition in 1937, Port-of-Spain, Key Caribbean Publications, 1976 Lent, John A.,"Mass Media in Grenada: Three Lives in a Decade," article in Journalism Quarterly, 1985, volume 62:number 4, p. 755-762 Lent, John A.,"Third World Mass Media and Their Search for Modernity: The Case of Commonwealth Caribbean, 1717-1976,",Bucknell University Press/Associated University Press, ©1977 Lewis, Paula, Alister Hughes, Belmont Estate Heritage Foundation (Great Greanadian Series), ©2004 Luna Mendoza, Jorge, Granada: La Nueva Joya del Caribe (Grenada: The New Jewel of the Caribbean] [in Spanish only], Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, ©1982. Macoomeh, Queen, Tales from Icebox Land, Commess University Press, ©2007. Mahabir, Cynthia, Crime and Nation-Building in the Caribbean: The Legacy of Legal Barriers,Schenkman Publishing Company, Inc., ©1985 Martin, John Angus, A-Z of Grenada Heritage, Macmillan-Caribbean, ©2007 Meeks, Brian W., Caribbean Revolutions and Revolutionary Theory: An Assessment of Cuba, Nicaragua and Grenada,Warwick University Caribbean Studies, Macmillan Caribbean, ©1993 Meeks, Brian W., Radical Caribbean: From Black Power to Abu Bakr, The Press University of the West Indies, ©1996 Minow, Martha, Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence, Beacon Press, ©1998 Morizot, Frédéric, Grenade: épices et poudre, une épopéee caraïbe [in French only], L'Harmattan, ©1988 Obika, Nyahuma, An Introduction to the Life and Times of T.U.B. Butler, the Father of the Nation, Caribbean Historical Society, ©1983. Parry, J.H. and P.M. Sherlock, Short History of the West Indies, Macmillan & Co. Ltd./St. Martin's Press, ©1956 Pastor, Robert A., Exiting the Whirlpool: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Latin America and the Caribbean, westview Press, 2nd edition, ©2001. Recommendations of the Claims Commission, appointed by His Excellency Sir Paul Scoon, Governor-General, Government Printery, 1988 Renfrew, Nita M. and Peter Blauner, Ollie's Army: How a Macy's Engineer and His Pals Became Rogue American Agents, New York Magazine, December 7, 1987 Report of the Duffus Commission of Inquiry into The Breakdown of Law & Order, and Police Brutality in Grenada, (Duffus Commission, Kingston, Jamaica, 27 February 1975) - See also on this site the complete Duffus Report Rodney, Walter, The Groundings with My Brothers, Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications, Research Associates, ©1969 [Rodney, Walter], Walter Rodney Speaks: the Making of an African Intellectual, edited by Robert A. Hill, Africa World Press Inc., ©1990 Sealy, Theodore, Sealy's Caribbean Leaders: A Personal Perspective on Major Political Caribbean Leaders Pre and Post Independence, Eagle Merchant Bank of Jamaica Ltd., ©1991 Searle, Chris, Words Unchained: Language & Revolution in Grenada, Zed Books Ltd., ©1984 Singham, Archie W., The Hero and the Crowd in a Colonial Polity, Yale University Press, ©1968 Snyder, Alvin A., Warriors of Disinformation: American Propaganda, Soviet Lies, and the Winning of the Cold War—An Insider's Account, Arcde Publishing, ©1995 Steele, Beverley A., Grenada: A History of Its People, Macmillan-Caribbean, ©2003. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report Grenada, Volumes 1, 2 and 3, (T.R.C. Commission), Government Printery, Grenada, 2006) - See also on this site the complete TRC Report Williams, Eric, From Columbus to Castro: A History of the Caribbean, 1492-1969, André Deutsch, Ltd., ©1970 Woodward, Bob, Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987, Simon & Schuster, ©1987 Young Leaders of Presentation Brothers College 2000 and 2002, Under the Cover of Darkness, St. George's, Grenada, ©2002 Novels, Docu-Novels and Revolutionary Poetry Fiction, based closely on events in Grenada related to the Gairy/Grenada Revolution period (even if not cited), including the undocumented history of docu-novels, provide an important narrative link to the times. Poetry adds its own special charms especially when read aloud before groups. Collins, Merle, Angel, Seal Press [also The Womens Press, London], ©1987 Collins, Merle, Because the Dawn Breaks! Poems Dedicated to the Grenadian People, Karia Press, ©1985 Davis, John Gordon, A Woman Involved, Collins, London, ©1987 Freedom Has No Price: An Anthology of Poems: Festival of the Revolution, March 1-13, Grenada 1980, s.n., Modern Printing and Graphics, 1980 Gray, Mayo L'Oiseau, Savage Season, Fawcett Crest, ©1978 Jules, Didacus and Valerie Cornwall, eds., Tongues of the New Dawn: An Anthology of Poems: Festival of the Revolution, March 10-13, Grenada, s.n., Modern Printing and Graphics, 1981 Paterson, Maurice, Big Sky, Little Bullet: A Docu-Novel, revised edition '96, [s.n.] [Grenada], ©[1996] Paterson, Maurice, Big Sky, Little Bullet: A Docu-Novel, , [s.n.] [Grenada], ©1992 Paterson, Maurice, [The] Future of the Past: A Tri-Story Publication, [s.n.] [Grenada], ©1991 Paterson, Maurice, So Far, So Mad: Four Factional Stories, [s.n.][Grenada], ©1994 Pendleton, Don, Don Pendleton's Executioner Mack Bolan: Death Wind, Worldwide, ©1989 [for fun] Roberts-Squires, Maria, October All Over, Heinemann, ©2005 Shacochis, Bob, Swimming in the Volcano, Charles Scribner's Sons, © [1993] Thomas, G.C.H., Ruler in Hiroona: A West Indian Novel, Macmillan Caribbean, © [1972], 1989 Waugh, Alec, Island in the Sun: A Story of the 1950's Set in the West Indies, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, ©1955 [also in video, filmed in Grenada] Whyte, Winston Michael, Burning Embers; or the Poems of a Prisoner, Dorrance, ©2003 Photographers Photographers/filmmakers of the Grenada Revolution were Wayne Carter, John Douglas, George Lewis, Martin Ken Lewis, Richard MacDonald, Courtney McKie, Michael Miller, Joe Sylvester/Pablo Sylvester, Kevin Williams, Arthur Winner, and others. If you have any contributions to this site re: names of photographers, or photographs, please click herePotentially Forthcoming New Books Word has it the people below are writing non-fiction or novels about the Grenada Revolution and Grenadian history. One can assume these people could use publisher contacts, printer recommendations and funds to maintain their livelihood during the writing process and to get their work printed and/or published. Definitive biographies are needed for Maurice Bishop and Eric Matthew Gairy, among others. Narratives of NJM youth and Gairy forces have yet to be published, among other stories vital to the culture and history of Grenada. Write down your stories. Support the writers. Get these stories in print before it is too late. Budhlall, KennedyCampbell, D.C. Cherebin, George Coard, Bernard DeRiggs, Chris DeRiggs, Wendell Anthony [Reflections] Fisher, Jeanne Frederick, Eddie George, Hudson Glomski, Jacqueline Hughes, Alister [via his estate] Jessamy, Michael Layne, Ewart Noel, Lloyd Paterson, Maurice Ross, Jacob Victor, Teddy [posthumously] Political Study Groups Political study groups, worker education groups, political education in the army, socialism [democratic socialism and scientific socialism] study groups were based on printed materials. In 1974 serious work was begun by the New JEWEL party and the OREL group on learning the ideology of socialism, Marxism-Leninism, and party organization. Political education continued until the last quarter of 1983. The books in this list are those linked with study groups. If you have additional information, please notify. Most likely, the following books and the concepts within were studied: Andreyev, Igor L., The Non-Capitalist Way, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1974, 1977 Brutents, Karen Nersesovich, The Liberation Struggle of the Asian and African Peoples at the Present Stage and Revolutionary Democracy, Novosti Press, 1977 Brutents, Karen Nersesovich, National Liberation Revolutions Today, Volumes 1 and 2, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977 Carmichael, Stokely and Charles V. Hamilton, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America, Random House, 1967 Castro, Fidel, Angola--Africa Girón, Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 1976 Castro, Fidel, Fidel Castro Speaks, edited by Martin Kenner and James F. Petras, Penguin [and Grove Press], ©1969 Castro, Fidel, Seventh Anniversary of the CDR [Committees of the Defence of the Revolution], Instituto del Libro, 1968 Duan, Le, On the Socialist Revolution in Vietnam, Volume I, Volume II, Volume III, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Hanoi, 1965 Duan, Le, Some Present Tasks, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Hanoi, 1974. Fanon, Frantz, (Studies in) A Dying Colonialism, Monthly Review Press, 1965 Fanon, Frantz, Wretched of the Earth, Grove Press, 1963 Freire, Pablo, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Herder and Herder, NY, 1970, 1972 Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich, various works including ‘Left Wing' Communism—An Infantile Disorder; What Is To Be Done?; Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism; The State and Revolution; The Right of Nations to Self-Determination, among others. Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich,To the Rural Poor: An Explanation for the Peasants of What the Social-Democrats Want, Progress Publisher 1867, 1872; also International Publishers, 1954 Lunacharsky, Anatoly Vasilievich, On Education: Selected Articles and Speeches; Progress Publishers, 1981 Marx, Karl, various works including Capital; also A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, among others. [Marx, Karl], Karl Marx: Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy, edited by T.B. Bottomore and M. Rubel, Penguin, 1961 Marx, Karl and Frederick Engels, various works including On Colonialism, The Communist Manifesto, among others. Munroe, Trevor, ABC of Scientific Socialism: A Series of Lectures by Trevor Munroe, Kingston, Jamaica, August 1980, among others. Nkrumah, Kwame, Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism, International Publishers, 1966 Nkrumah, Kwame, Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare, International Publishers, 1969 Nyerere, Julius K., The Arusha Declaration, Government Printer, Dar es Salaam, 1967 Nyerere, Julius K., Ujamaa: Essays on Socialism, Oxford University Press, 1968 Ponomaryov, B.N. [Boris Nikolaevich], Some Problems of the Revolutionary Movement, Peace and Socialism International, Prague, 1975 Popov, UI.N. [Yuri Nikolaevich], Series:ABC of Political Science [multiple titles] Pronin, I. and M. Stepichev, Leninist Standards of Party Life, Progress Publishers, 1969; [Maurice Bishop recommended CC members read this during the 08/26/83 emergency meeting]. Qaddafi, Muammar Mohammed, in 1976The Green Book, Part One—The Solution of the Problem of Democracy: 'The Authority of the People,' in 1978 The Green Book, Part Two—The Solution of the Economic Problem: 'Socialism,' and in June 1979, The Green Book, Part Three—The Social Basis of the Third Universal Theory. These original English-language versions were small pamphlets, published by the Public Establishment for Publishing, Advertising, and Distribution in Tripoli, Libya. Slovo, J., "A Critical Appraisal of the Non-Capitalist Path and the National Democratic State in Africa," Marxism Today, June, 1974 Solodovnikov, V.G. and V. Bogoslovsky, Non-Capitalist Development: An Historical Outline, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1975 Solodovnikov, V.G.The Present Stage of the Non-Capitalist Development in Asia and Africa,Budapest, 1973 Thomas, Clive Y., Dependence and Transformation: The Economics of the Transition to Socialism, Monthly Review Press, 1974 Thomas, Clive Y., 'The Havana Declaration of June 1975,' paper presented to the Conference on Contemporary Trends and Issues in Caribbean International Affairs, Trinidad, May 23-27, 1977 Ul'ianovsky, R.A., The Comintern and the East: The Struggle for the Leninist Strategy and Tactics in National Liberation Movements, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1979 Ul'ianovsky, R.A., The Dollar and Asia: U.S. Neo-Colonialist Policy in Action, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965 Ul'ianovsky, R.A., National Liberation: Essays on Theory and Practice, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1978 Ul'ianovsky, R.A., The October Revolution in Russia and the Revolutionary Process in Asian and African Countries, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977 Ul'ianovsky, R.A., Socialism and the Newly Independent Nations, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1974 A list of books used in a late 1975 NJM internal study series on the subject of the Cuba Revolution. Boorstein, Edward, The Economic Transformation of Cuba, Monthly Review Press, 1968, 1969 Castro, Fidel, Report of the Central Committee of the CP Cuba to the First Congress, Departamento de Orientación Revolucionaria del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba, 1975 Cuba, The Constitution of the Republic of Cuba Cuba, Cuban Family Code Guevara, Ernesto, Episodes of the Revolutionary War, International Publishers, 1968 Guevara, Ernesto, Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War, Monthly Review Press, 1968 Guevara, Ernesto, On Vietnam and World Revolution, Merit Publishers, NY, 1967 Huberman, Leo and Paul M. Sweezy, Cuba: Anatomy of a Revolution, Monthly Review Press, 1960 Huberman, Leo and Paul M. Sweezy, Socialism in Cuba, Monthly Review Press, 1969 Karol, K.S., Guerrillas in Power: The Course of the Cuban Revolution, Hill & Wang, 1970 Millette, James, Cuba Since 1959: A Commonsense View of Economic Development, United National Independence Party, Trinidad, pamphlet, 1973 In Prime Minister Maurice Bishop's speech at the Heroes Day rally on 19 June 1979, he announced repeal of Statutory Rule and Order (SR&O) of 1965. Following the repeal publications described below were allowed into the country.
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The Peoples Revolutionary Government published many titles under the name Fedon Publishing. Handsome paperbound books, they were filled with excellent graphics, photographs and text celebrating different aspects of the Revolutionary programmes and events and people. The Government Information Service (GIS) also published documents. The GIS printed and issued most speeches by Maurice Bishop. Weekly releases were available free from the GIS office at Butler House.