By Edward Boorstein The CIA is busily and stealthily working to over- throw yet another progressive regime — the People’s Revolutionary Government of Grenada. It is using a variant of the technique applied in Chile and Many other places — the “destabilization” of the govern- ment in preparation for its overthrow by force. An authentic people’s revolution came to power last March in Grenada — a country consisting of 110,000 people on several small islands in the south- eastern Caribbean. This revolution got rid of a dic- tator who kept the country in terror. It already has an. impressive series of accomplishments to its credit — like creating a large number of new jobs, providing free milk to children under five and primary school ° Students, protecting the right of workers to be repre- sented by trade unions, establishing a policy of ending pay discrimination against women. Andit proposes to carry out a fundamental restructuring of the de- formed colonial economy inherited from the past. For the first time in their 300-year history, the people of Grenada are seeing a chance to build a decent life for themselves and their children. But the U.S. government doesn’t care what the Grenadjan revolution is doing for the Grenadian people. The Grenadian people don’t count. What counts is maintaining the imperialist grip on the - Caribbean. The imperialists know that the poverty- stricken Caribbean area is in ferment. They see re- volutiens in Grenada and Nicaragua, coming on top of the earlier Cuban revolution. They are worried about a revolutionary impulse Spreading throughout the area. Even though Grenada is a tiny country, the re- volution there is important to the imperialists — it . could serve as an example to other Caribbean islands whose circumstances are similar. And so they have been working to destabilize. ; I-spent 10 days last month in Grenada, at the invitation of the People’s Revolutionary Government. I found it incredibly beautiful. There are lovely moun- _ tains, innumerable bays and coves, and long beaches of clean white sand. I found the people warm and friendly. : _, Fourists could do lots worse than to visit Grenada. They would not only see little of this unusual country and its people, but also get a look at a revolution in its fascinating early stages. The people of Grenada are almost all Black or mixed — the descendants of the slaves brought over from Africa to work the plantations owned by the French and British colonialists. The French colonized the island first, exterminating the Caribs who had lived there before. Then the British, in the late eighteenth century, conquered the island from the French. The language of Grenada is English, al- though some older people in the countryside can still speak a French patois. As always with colonialists, the British masters ef Grenada ran the island in their own interests without . giving a hoot about the welfare of its people. When they conceded final independence in 1974, they left an island which bore the marks of several centuries of colonialist, and thenimperialist exploitation — people ground down by the severest kind of poverty and a deformed, satellite type of economy, geared to the needs and interests of Britain and other imperialist countries. __ I saw a little of the poverty in drives around the island. I saw seven- or eight-year-old children lugging pails of water from far away outdoor faucets to their homes. In one place I saw a grown man in trunks bathing himself at a cold-water faucet a good 100 yards away from his house. Less than 40°. of the homes in Grenada have inside running water — not even cold, much less hot. The same with electricity. A large proportion of the homes don't have it. The economy of Grenada has been marked bya monstrous, criminal level of unemployment — about 00“. Every other person who wants a job has been unable to find one. Cutting down and eliminating the unemployment is the most urgent ecomic task inher- ited by the revolution. Like many other underdeveloped countries, Gre- nada is geared to the production of a few main export crops. Most of its cultivated land is used to pr +uce cocoa, nutmeg, and bananas for shipment to Great PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FEBRUARY 15, 1980—Page 6 . i, | ” aa@e Bt 2 € = Px Go 5) 7 FM AME NEALS TISGE TOwss = SESE t WALROC IME DATE Bes : Asc o Ese & 4 : AMENASSY AINGS TON AME UEASSY LONMLOW AME WGASSY OTTAWA AABWASASSY FORTY UF CRAIN USWISRION USUN NEW YORK Liste OFF igiAL OSE Department of Siate He SRIDGE @2718 BFIscez ‘ Sass BOTION ARA-15 : = | “EWPQ OCT+S2 EUR-i2 360-14 ADS-268 HA-8S a GOP 298 PM-8B OL INR-1B 4.-@e wELE-GE PA-O! EP-@2 S5~1 . 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" we wey a wy “ee t, A Tish Lit, Rech Sart. ® fee eee . Britain, West Germany and other developed coun- tries. Very little land is used for the production of food for the local market. So although Grenada is an ag- ricultural country, more than half the food it con- sumes is imported — at very high prices. And despite - the heavy import bill, Grenada does not get enough food — there is widespread malnutrition. . Grenada is also dependent on imports for most other things besides food. Clothing, cement and other building materials, furniture — all are imported. There is almost no industry in Grenada. . _ Grenada banks and insurance companies were foreign-owned and controlled — British and Cana- dian. They didn’t lend significant amounts to develop agriculture, fishing, and industry in Grenada. They lent money to the well-to-do for the import of cars. They transferred large amounts to the home coun- tries, so that little, impoverished Grenada was con- - . tributing to financing the economic growth of Britain and Canada. : There is a tourist industy in Grenada, but till the present government, it was owned and run by foreig- ners for the benefit of the foreigners. For most of its people, Grenada has been a dead end economically — a situation without hope. A very high proportion has. been left with no other choice ~ except to migrate — to Trinidad, Great Britain and the United States. : On top of everything else, Grenada was run by a* dictator, Eric Gairy, who set up an illegal private police force, consisting of thugs — former criminals — to terrorize the people and maintain his rule. - Gairy was in certain respects a laughing stock. For example, he has an obsession about UFOs (Un- identified Flying Objects). Several years ago he vis- ited the United Nations and submitted a resolution to the General Assembly requesting it to set up an inves- x Copy of telegram sent from the Bridgetown, Barbados, embassy, headquarters of U.S. ambassador to Grenada, urging retat : State Cyrus Vance to interest fanart rights organizations in making inquiries about Grenada’s treatment of its incarcerated: ClA threatens Grenadian revolution _Brizan handed a bit of iron wrapped in a newspaper to “al tigating of UFOs. While UN delegates gave each othel knowing smiles, the resolution was quietly side racked. : : a But Gairy’s private police force was no laughing | matter. Here are Gairy ’s own words on this force: This quotation is from The Report of the Duffus Com: ~ mission of Inquiry into the Breakdown of Law and Order and Police Brutality in Grenada (A commis” sion appointed by the British Governor): € “The opposition has referred to my recruit criminals in a reserve force. To this I shall not say ye L or nay. Does it not take steel to cut steel? .. . Hun dreds have come and some of the toughest and rough: est roughnecks have been recruited.” ~4 This police force, known in Granada as the Mon goose’ Gang, arrested people, held them without charges, beat and tortured them, and then denied them medical attention. The Duffus Commission writes of one typical case: ‘‘Police Constable Philli Willie Bishop who used it to beat the three men.” Willie Bishop before joining Gairy’s private police q force had been convicted 19 times for ciminal of fenses. The Duffus Commission also reports how — some of Gairy’s thugs took one prisoner “into the adjoining toilet, pushed his head into the toilet bow! and flushed the toilet.”” ey - On January 21, 1974 the dictator dispatched his” private police force against an anti-Gairy demonstra*— tion of 24,000 people — a gigantic figure for Grenada. Gairy’s thugs mounted a riot. They used tear gas and shot rifles. Rupert Bishop, father of the present prime — ¥ - minister, was shot and killed. _- Besides being a bloody dictator himself, Gairy © had close ties to fascist Chile. In mid 1976 on a visit to Chile, he publicly defended the Chilean regime. The Chilean fascist dictator Pinochet offered aid to Gairy. : .