Workers Party of Jamaica (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Workers Party of Jamaica was a Marxist political party in Jamaica. WPJ was founded on December 17, 1978 by Trevor Munroe. Munroe, a Rhodes scholar from Oxford University, served as its general secretary. The forerunner of WPJ was the Workers Liberation League. WPJ was an ally of the People's National Party. With WPJ backing the PNP government developed closer relations to Cuba, which irritated the United States. Ahead of the 1980 elections the U.S. had pushed through a destabilization campaign.