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Maurice Bishop

About

Maurice Rupert Bishop was a Grenadian revolutionary and the leader of New Jewel Movement – a Marxist–Leninist party which sought to prioritise socio-economic development, education, and black liberation – that came to power during the 13 March 1979 revolution that removed Eric Gairy from office. Bishop headed the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada from 1979 to 1983, when he was dismissed from his post and executed during the coup by Bernard Coard, leading to upheaval.

Books

The Proletarian's Pocketbook
The Proletarian's Pocketbook
Karl Marx, James Baldwin, Malala Yousafzai, Toni Morrison, Friedrich Engels , Frederick Douglass, Harsha Walia, Paulo Freire, Frida Kahlo, Audre Lorde, Arundhati Roy, Fidel Castro, Aimé Césaire, Angela Y. Davis, Kuwasi Balagoon, Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Mumia Abu-Jamal , Sundiata Acoli, John Africa, Samir Amin , Toni Cade Bambara , Willie Baptist , Amiri Baraka , Maurice Bishop, James and Grace Lee Boggs , Bertolt Brecht , Safiya Bukhari , Amilcar Cabral , Berta Caceres , Combahee River Collective , Dialego , Dimitrov , DMX , W.E.B. Du Bois , Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz , Zhou Enlai , Frantz Fanon , Kiran Fatima , Silvia Federici , Les Feinberg , Clara Fraser , Anuradha Ghandy, Nikki Giovanni , Antonio Gramsci , Che Guevara , Fred Hampton , Kathleen Hanna , Harry Haywood , Ho Chi Min , bell hooks , Enver Hoxha , Dolores Ibarruri , Kim Il-Sung , George Jackson , Jonathan Jackson , Marsha P. Johnson, Claudia Jones , Ghasson Kanafani , Leila Khaled , Martin Luther King, Jr. , Alexandra Kollantai, L.A. Research Group , Vladimir Lenin , Rosa Luxemburg , Nelson Mandela , Mao Tse-Tung , Manning Marable , Sub Marcos , José Mariátegui , Carlos Marighella , Bob Marley , Charu Mazumdar, Chico Mendes , Evo Morales , Fred Moten , Huey P. Newton , Kwame Nkrumah , Julius Nyerere , Nyurba Lola Olufemi , Michael Parenti , Leonard Peltier , Rashid , The Red Nation , Paul Robeson , Walter Rodney , J. Sakai , Thomas Sankara , Lucia Sánchez Saornil , Bobby Seale , Chief Seattle , Assata Shakur , Tupac Shakur , Nina Simone , Bhagat Singh , Joseph Stalin , Sukarno , Doris Tijeriino , Sèkou Tourè , Kwame Ture , Dhoruba Bin Wahad , Lilla Watson , Malcolm X , Xi Jinping