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Ralph Everard Gonsalves (born 1945), popularly known as "Comrade Ralph," is the Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines. He is leader of the Unity Labour Party , and won the 2001 general elections with a landslide, after a close run in the 1998 elections.Gonsalves is an intellectual who has spoken of a "Caribbean civilization" and advocates a closer union of the various small island nations and territories in the region. He is compared to Rosie Douglas of Dominica, George Odlum of Saint Lucia and Tim Hector of Antigua and Barbuda.
Bibliography
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Books
- The spectre of imperialism: the case of the Caribbean ( University of the West Indies; 128 pages, 1976)
- The non- capitalist path of development: Africa and the Caribbean (One Caribbean Publishers; 1981Events January-February January Sarawak Chamber found January 1 Greece enters the EEC January 1 Palau becomes self-governing January 4 Sheffield police arrests Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper January 16 Protestant gunmen shoot and wound Bernadette D)
- History and the future: a Caribbean perspective (169 pages, 19941994 is a common year starting on Saturday, and was designated the International year of the Family''. Events January events January 1 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect January 6 Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an)
- Notes on some basic ideas in Marxism-LeninismMarxism-Leninism is a term used to denote several different (and sometimes opposing) branches of Marxist thought: Strictly speaking, Marxism-Leninism refers to the version of Marxist theory developed by Vladimir Lenin; see Leninism. Leon Trotsky and his s (University of the West Indies; 56 pages)
Pamphlets
- The RodneyWalter Rodney ( March 23, 1942 June 13, 1980) was a prominent Guyanese historian and political figure. Born to a working class family, Rodney was a bright student, attending Queen's College in Guyana and then attending university on a scholarship at the U affair and its aftermath (University of the West Indies; 21 pages, 1975Events January January 1 Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up and are sentenced to 30 months to 8 years in jail on February 21 January 5 The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, i)
- The development and class character of the bourgeois state: the case of St. Vincent (University of the West Indies; 15 pages, 1976)
- Controls and influences on the civil serviceA civil servant or public servant is a civilian career public-sector employee working for a government department or agency. Further workers in non-departmental public bodies may also be classed as civil servants for the purpose of producing statistics. and statutory bodies in the CommonwealthAlternative meaning: the Commonwealth of Nations The English noun Commonwealth dates originally from the fifteenth century and in different contexts indicates one of: # a nation, state or political unit # a state founded on law by agreement of the people Caribbean: a preliminary discussion (University of the West Indies; 67 pages, 1977)
- The development of the labour movement in St. Vincent (37 pages, 1977)
- Who killed sugar in St. Vincent? ( United Liberation Movement ; 21 pages, 1977)
- On the political economy of Barbados (One Caribbean Publishers; 49 pages, 1981)
- The trade union movement in St. Vincent and the Grenadines ( Movement for National Unity ; 64 pages, 1983)
- Ebenezer Joshua : his ideology and style (Movement for National Unity; 39 pages, 1984)
- (editor) The trial of George McIntosh (Caribbean Diaspora Press; 80 pages, 1985)
- Authority in the police force: its uses and abuses (Movement for National Unity; 45 pages, 1986)
- Banana in trouble: its present and future (Movement for National Unity; 22 pages, 1989)
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