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portada Politics in an Island State: Wills O. Isaacs and Jamaica's Struggle for Development
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440
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9789766409593
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Politics in an Island State: Wills O. Isaacs and Jamaica's Struggle for Development

Diane Austin-Broos (Author) · University of the West Indies Press · Paperback

Politics in an Island State: Wills O. Isaacs and Jamaica's Struggle for Development - Austin-Broos, Diane

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Synopsis "Politics in an Island State: Wills O. Isaacs and Jamaica's Struggle for Development"

During thedecades of the mid-twentieth century, Wills O. Isaacs was a prominent member ofthe People's National Party. He was then, and remains, one of Jamaica's mostcontroversial figures; beloved by many and reviled by some both within andbeyond his party. Isaacs joined the People's National Party soon after itsofficial launch in 1938. Quickly he became a leading nationalist, and astrategist within the PNP. Isaacs' early work was in union organization and inbuilding local constituency groups, including one intended to attract thecommercial class. Another, formed in downtown Mathews Lane, brought himnotoriety. In later years, Group 69 was sometimes seen as a precursor toKingston's garrisons and the wars between constituencies allied to one or the othermajor party. Isaacs' first elected position was on the KSAC council where heserved from 1943 to 1954. Elected to parliament in 1949, he held a CentralKingston seat until 1967. In that year, he was elected to the ruralconstituency of St Ann North East and re-elected in 1972. Throughouthis career, Isaacs was a nationalist and a social democrat who identified as asocialist. As a champion of the unemployed and the racially vilified, hecondemned capitalism's social failures. He also condemned the market failuresinvolved in cartels and private monopolies. Consequently, he supported somenationalization, especially of Jamaica's central services. Yet, he did notforeclose on capitalism and looked for a détente between classes. His maintarget was totalitarianism, both of the right and the left, and of the variousnineteenth and twentieth century imperialisms. Isaacs' nationalist ire wasraised equally by British treatment of African peoples of the trans-Atlantic, and by the fate of Europeans overwhelmed in turn by Nazi Germany and Stalin'sRussia. He described the path of the PNP as one between "the red shirts" and"the black shirts".

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