December 1980's Issue

A monthly guide to action groups around the world.

The New Internationalist meets some young Jamaicans who believe small-scale, cooperative fanning is the only way for the Caribbean to conquer unemployment.

Lennox Grant talks to the Dyers of Ottawa, one of thousands of Caribbean families who have emigrated in search of a better life.

The New Internationalist spoke to Grenada’s Prime Minister Maurice Bishop in his St. George’s office. The following are excerpts from that interview.

Life without multinationals. Still a dream, but can it come true?

Not satisfied with other methods of destroying Bolivia’s trade union movement, the military junta has ordered that its greatest symbol - the headquarters of COB, the Bolivian Worker’s Union - be razed to the ground and replaced by a parking lot.

Mauritania, on the west coast of Africa, has an interior with a large deposit of iron ore, nomads, oases, hundreds of thousands of date palms, and an awful lot of Sahara sand. Water, a scarce commodity, is the key to power.

Trinidad has been producing oil for more than 70 years. It was just another natural resource until the price rises of 1973 when the country’s revenues soared and the sudden transition into middle income status brought many of the ills of the industrialized world.

A visual guide to the Caribbean’s colonial past.

Trinidad’s vast oil wealth has not lead to development says Jeremy Taylor.

…being the book that became the bible to one third of the world