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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. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... See also: Political Science Notable political scientists Kenneth Arrow - Nobel Memorial Prize winning economist who published influential paper on his widely cited Arrows Impossibility Theorem Robert Axelrod Duncan Black - Responsible for unearthing the work of many early political scientists, including Charles Dodgson Jean-Charles de Borda - 18th century mathematician... Activism, in a general sense, can be described as involvement in action to bring about change, be it social, political, environmental, or other change. ... A politician is an individual involved in politics. ...


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. ... Jump to: navigation, search Rhodes House in Oxford The Rhodes Scholarships were created by Englishman Cecil John Rhodes. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ...


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. ... Soviet redirects here. ... 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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Workers Party of Jamaica - definition of Workers Party of Jamaica in Encyclopedia (199 words)
WPJ was founded on December 17 1978 by Trevor Munroe.
Munroe, a Rhodes scholar from Oxford University, served as its general secretary.
WPJ is today defunct, and Munroe has renounced marxism.
People's National Party (523 words)
Munroe, a professor of government at the University of the West Indies and president of the University and Allied Workers Union (UAWU), served with Douglas Orane, chairman of Grace, Kennedy, in the previous Parliament as independent senators.
Meantime, Munroe said he accepted the prime minister's nomination in order to complete unfinished businesses in the Senate including the enactment of a Charter of Rights Bill, the establishment of a commission to study campaign financing and urging the Jamaican government to advocate labour standards globally.
Meanwhile, Lambert Brown, Munroe's deputy at the UAWU, welcomed his colleague's appointment to the government ranks in the Upper House, noting that the union allowed for political plurality and, in fact, had among its delegates grassroots leaders of the main political parties.
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