PT. 4: GRENADA'S EDUCATION REVOLUTION 🇬🇩

This month marks 46 years since the revolution in Grenada.

On 13 March 1979, The New JEWEL Movement—New Joint Endeavor for Welfare, Education and Liberation—carried out a bloodless coup that ousted the US-backed dictatorship of Prime Minister Eric Gairy (1922-97).

They established the People's Revolutionary Government (PRG) headed by Maurice Bishop (1944-83).

The new government set out to build a society anchored on revolutionary socialist values, which did not please Washington. In October 1983, the US invaded Grenada and overthrew the PRG.

This video examines how that invasion overturned the revolution's educational programmes, forcing a US-funded newspaper onto the population and the exile of many revolutionaries.