The Grenada Revolution Can Teach Us About People’s Power

‘Imperialism’s acts of aggression cannot serve as an excuse to not actualize the self-organization of the masses.
The collapse of the Grenadian Revolution on Oct. 19, 1983 should be carefully examined for the lessons that it might offer to organizers in the Caribbean who are currently organizing with the laboring classes. If the working class shall be the architect of its liberation, the process of revolution-making should enable them to fulfill that role. Fundamental change should not be the outcome of a vanguard force that usurps the initiative of the people.
Self-emancipation of the people, as advocated by Walter Rodney and C. L. R. James, is the prudent and humanistic approach to struggle, if “all power to the people” is not simply an exercise in empty sloganeering.’
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