The Grenadian Revolution, Part 5: We Should Move, Rather Than Wait To Be Killed
On March 10, 1979, according to all persons who were personally involved in the documentation of the revolution, the New Jewel Movement leadership got word through their informats at senior levels of the police force, that orders were left for the arrest and assassination of the leading members of the political party i.e - Maurice Bishop, Bernard Coard, Unison Whiteman and Hudson Austin. Thus, all leadership members would go into hiding immediately except for Vincent Noel who did not receive the information in time and was arrested and detained. Then on March 12, when Gairy departed the island on government business to attend a function in New York, he allegedly left orders for the capture and murder of the NJM leadership. Through a pattern of behaviour, NJM leadership knew that if they wanted to live to see another day, they would have to act urgently - they had to move soon and not just soon, they had to move tonight. In one night, Tuesday, March 13, 1979, a group of young persons would attempt an event that has never happen in Caribbean history: a successful revolution in the English - speaking Caribbean.
Additional Knowledge
BOOKS
Black Power in the Caribbean by Kate Quinn
Big Revolution, Small Country: The Rise and Fall of the Grenada Revolution by Jay R. Mandle
Caribbean Revolutions and Revolutionary Theory: An Assessment of Cuba, Nicaragua and Grenada by Brian Meeks
Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution by Laurie R. Lambert
Grenada: A History of Its People by Beverley A. Steele
Grenada: Tale of Uncle Gairy by Frank McDonald
Grenada: The Peaceful Revolution by Catherine Sunshine and Philip Wheaton
Grenada: The Jewel Deposited by Gordon K. Lewis
Reform and Revolution in Grenada, 1950 to 1981 by David Lewis
Revolutionary Grenada and the United States by Dr. Ken Boodhoo
In The Spirit of Butler: Trade Unionism In Free Grenada
The Commission of Inquiry Into The Breakdown of Law and Order and Police Brutality in Grenada
The Hero and the Crowd in a Colonial Polity by A.W. Singham
The Point Is To Change the World: Selected Writings of Andaiye edited by Dr. Alissa Trotz,
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
Drumblair by Rachel Manley
We Move Tonight by Joseph Ewart Layne
FICTIONAL BOOKS
Angel” A Novel by Merle Collins
ACADEMIC PAPERS
A Caribbean Story: Grenada's Journey - Possibilities, Contradictions, Lessons by Merle Collins
Charismatic Leadership and Popular Support: A Comparison of the Leadership Styles of Eric Gairy And Maurice Bishop by Pedro A. Noguera
Between Populism and Leninism: The Grenadian Experience by Colin Henfrey
Grenada: Eric Matthew Gairy and the Politics of Extravagance by Frank McDonald
Grenada In Contemporary Historiography by Ron Sookram
Grenada: Maxi-Crisis for Mini-State by Tony Thorndike
Rastafari in the Grenada Revolution by Arthur Newland
Ressentiment and the Gairy Social Revolution by Oliver Benoit
Shifts in Grenadian Migration: An Historical Perspective by Gail R. Pool
The Grenada General Election of 1976 by Patrick Emmanuel
The Rastafarians In The Eastern Caribbean by Horace Campbell
What Happened? Grenada: A Retrospective Journey by Merle Collins
ARTICLES
Caribbean Life and Times - Revolution in Grenada: An Interview with Maurice Bishop
Caribbean Women and Politics by Merle Hodge
People’s Power, No Dictator by Dr. Walter Rodney
The Caribbean Sun - How the Overthrow Was Organised
DOCUMENTARIES
Associated Press - Grenadian’s Bishop’s Move
Caribbean Resources Institute - Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us (1983)
Four Years of Love: The Grenada Revolution (2021) directed by Richard Audley Vaughan
Grenada: Colonialism and Conflict directed by Valerie Scoon
The Story of Sir Eric Gairy directed by Bev Sinclair