Atlas / Organisations / New Jewel Movement
New Jewel Movement
1979–1983 · Grenada · Marxist · Held state power · coding confidence low
Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →
Core principles
A Caribbean revolutionary government that expanded literacy and health care and never held the elections it promised.
Economic model
State farms, cooperatives, a new international airport built with Cuban assistance.
Organisation of powers
A people's revolutionary government by decree; the constitution suspended for four years.
Reading note
Collapsed when its own central committee executed the prime minister, followed by a US invasion. Included because internal party violence, not external pressure, ended it.
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EC · Economic organisation · scored −08
Coded −8: state farms, cooperatives and a centrally planned development programme.
- Documented act or statuteA state sector was built in agriculture, fishing and tourism, with Cuban and Soviet assistance.
CU · Social and cultural order · scored −04
Coded −4: literacy, free health care and equal pay legislation.
- Documented act or statuteIlliteracy fell sharply and a national health service was created in four years.
AU · Organisation of power · scored +07
Coded +7: a people's revolutionary government by decree with the constitution suspended.
- Documented act or statuteNo election was held in four years and the 1974 constitution was suspended throughout.
SC · Scale of decision · scored +04
Coded +4: centralised administration of a very small island state.
- ScholarshipParish councils were consultative rather than decisive.
ID · Rule of membership · scored −03
Coded −3: non-racial and internationalist in framing.
- Documented act or statuteThe movement aligned with the Non-Aligned Movement and with Caribbean regional bodies.
CH · Method and tempo · scored +07
Coded +7: power taken by armed seizure and ended by internal execution.
- Documented act or statuteThe government was taken in a near-bloodless coup in 1979; the prime minister was executed by his own central committee's faction in 1983.
Where it came from, and what came after
- takes its doctrine fromClassical Marxism
A Caribbean Marxist party that took power in 1979.
Nearest organisations by measured distance
Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.
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