since murder occupation authorities to discredit the 1979 revolution.
ing the guns of the evitable methods imperialists.
ment has soared.
liberties are under assault.
the formed part of the measures. so-called Committee to cover up for Bernard Coard ing that Coard had any part in this.
point the finger leading the army to shoot them down.
Pot group' Grenadan revolution.
of Grenada's sion of that tiny island. In October 1984, the arrested Bernard Coard and 18 others for Bishop's murder. Coard had been deputy prime minister of the People's Revolutionary Government. After much delay, the trial began in April this year. It is being used by the US-installed New National Party and the Reagan administration The Coard faction overthrew the revolutionary government by moving against Bishop and turn army against the mass domonstration of 19 October 1983 which released Bishop from house arrest. The Reagan administration and its servants in the Caribbean are seeking to convince the Grenadan people and the oppressed throughout the world that these are the inantiThe NNP government is also using the trial to undercut popular discontent over worsening conditions on the island. Health, employment, and education projects initiated by the revolutionary government have been dismantled and unemployIn the first four months of this year, living costs jumped by almost 30 per cent with a new tax on consumer goods. Democratic rights and civil A new Movement Restriction Act limits travel out of the country of those deemed to be security risks. Trade unionists are harrassed. Unemployed youth have been killed, political activists intimidated and opponents of government and US presence on the island are subject to arbitrary searches. Irregularities by the authorities in the conduct of the murder trial, including ill-treatment of defendants, have also government's repressive Now, however, very necessary opposition to the government repression is being abused by the for Rights Grenada and Caribbean Labour Solidarity. These organisations have been organising in the trade unions and Labour Party and through the pages of the Morning Star, Caribbean Times and Tribun They use denunciations of the US-backed trial to rewrite history on the murder of Bishop, denyThey even responsibility at George Louison, agricultural minister in the revolutionar! government and today a leader of the Maurice Bishop Patriotic Movement. Caribbean Times of 12 September describes Louison as 'the man accused of murdering Bishop'. Other accounts blame him for bullying Bishop to break party discipline leading to his house arrest; and for 'manipulating the masses to take to the streets on 19 Octobe and smear campaign does no justice to the Grenadan revolution. It flies in the face of well-documented evidence presented by Cuban leader Fidel Castro. While rejecting the right of the US-backed court to try Coard and his supporters, Castro leaves no doubt that this Pol murdered Bishop and with it the
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