Marcus Garvey People's Political Party
The Marcus Garvey People's Political Party (formerly known as the Marcus Garvey People's Progressive Party) is a political party in Jamaica formed by the merger of two minor parties.[citation needed] The ideology associated with the party is socialist, republican and Pan-Africanist. The party is named after Jamaican National Hero, Marcus Garvey. On election ballots, the party campaign as MG/PPP (or MGPPP[1]) or simply PPP.
The People's Political Party (PPP), founded in 1929 by Garvey, is Jamaica's first political party.[2][3] In recent years, the Party has been spearheaded by the Rastafari attorney Ras Miguel Lornne. The Party predominantly compose of Rastafaris[4] who have been disenfranchised from political office and tourism in Jamaica, despite their immense contribution to Jamaican culture, and the exporting of Jamaican culture.[1] In the December 2011 election, the MGPPP put forward candidates in ten constituencies, and received between twenty and seventy-six votes each out of the thousands of votes cast.[1]
During the colonial era, the British colonial government in Jamaica tried to crush any activity by the Black majority that might upset their colonial order.[5] From the 1890s, the British tried to eradicate "influential religio-racial leaders."[5] In the mid 1920s, Blacks who promoted Black nationalism where deemed by the colonisers as a threat to their interest and colonial rule. In 1920, the colonisers viewed Marcus Garvey's People's Political Party as a threat to the status quo, as it demanded independence from Britain.[5] Temple University Associate Professor, Charles Price, writes that, in The Daily Gleaner, an author of that paper described the speeches of PPP candidates as:
- "noxious doctrines," introduced to an "ignorant minoirty,...a criminal minority; and it is always possible that these might at any moment, being intoxicated by foolish doctrines, break out of control and suffer the consequences."[5]
Following the death of MGPPP's President, Moses Emanuel Henriques in February 2012, he was succeeded by Leon Burrell,[6][7] the Caribbean history teacher.
The MGPPP nominated six candidates in the 2016 Jamaican general election.[8][9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Barnett, Michael, "Rastafari in the New Millennium: A Rastafari Reader." Syracuse University Press (2014), p. 296, ISBN 9780815633600 [1] (retrieved 23 April 2024)
- ^ Tafari-Ama, Imani M., "Blood, Bullets And Bodies: Sexual Politics Below Jamaica's Poverty Line." Beaten Track Publishing (2017), p. 288, ISBN 9781786451378 [2] (retrieved 23 April 2024)
- ^ Price, Charles, "Rastafari: The Evolution of a People and Their Identity." NYU Press (2022), p. 29, ISBN 9781479807154 [3] (retrieved 23 April 2024)
- ^ Barnett, Michael, "Rastafari in the New Millennium: A Rastafari Reader." Syracuse University Press (2014), p. 311, ISBN 9780815633600 [4] (retrieved 23 April 2024)
- ^ a b c d Price, Charles, "Rastafari: The Evolution of a People and Their Identity." NYU Press (2022), pp. 29-30, ISBN 9781479807154 [5] (retrieved 23 April 2024)
- ^ Lansford, Tom, "Political Handbook of the World 2015." CQ Press (2015), p. 3101, ISBN 9781483371559 [6] (retrieved 23 April 2024)
- ^ The Gleaner, "Idle lands to willing hands ... Marcus Garvey party wants property distribution" (18 September 2015) [7] (retrieved 23 April 2024)
- ^ "Independents Unite To Unseat PNP, JLP". Jamaica Gleaner. 16 February 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
- ^ "Nomination day highlights". Jamaica Observer. 11 February 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
Further reading
[edit]- Garvey, Marcus, "The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. I: 1826-August 1919." Volume 1 of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers. Editor: Robert Abraham Hill. University of California Press (2023), p. 22, ISBN 9780520342224 [8] (retrieved 23 April 2024)
- "76 King Street - Journal of Liberty Hall: The Legacy of Marcus Garvey, Vol. 1, 2009." A r a w a k publications, p. 158, [9] (retrieved 23 April 2024)
