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Trevor St George Munroe (b. 10 December 1944, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican political scientist, labour activist, and politician. Jump to: navigation, search December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Munroe studied political science at the University of the West Indies, and won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University where he obtained the D.Phil in political science for a landmark study of the process of decolonization in Jamaica between the 1930s and 1960s, published as The Politics of Constitutional Decolonization in 1972. The University of the West Indies (UWI) is an autonomous regional institution supported by and serving 16 countries in the Caribbean - Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. ...
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On his return to Jamaica in the late 1960s, he became involved in the political ferment which followed on the Rodney Riots of 1968. He founded a trade union, the University and Allied Workers' Union, initially to represent janitorial and service staff at the UWI. In 1974 he founded the Workers' Liberation League (WLL), an explicitly pro-Soviet Marxist-Leninist organization. In 1978, the WLL became the Worker's Party of Jamaica (WPJ), and Munroe served as its general secretary. This article is about riots in the Caribbean in 1968. ...
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Vladimir Lenin in 1920 Leninism is a political and economic theory which builds upon Marxism; it is a branch of Marxism (and it has been the dominant branch of Marxism in the world since the 1920s). ...
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the WPJ dissolved in 1990. Following the elections of 1997 he was appointed an independent senator by Prime Minister Percival Patterson. In 2002, he was reappointed to the Senate as a member of the People's National Party. The Right Honourable Percival Noel James Patterson (born April 10, 1935) is the current Prime Minister of Jamaica (since 1992) and is the leader of the Jamaican Peoples National Party. ...
For other uses, see Peoples National Party (disambiguation). ...
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