Editing Maurice Bishop

{{Infobox person|name=Maurice Bishop|birth_date=29 May 1944|image=File:Maurice Bishop.jpg
|birth_place=Aruba, [[Netherlands Antilles]]|death_date=19 October 1983|death_place=Saint George's, [[Grenada]]|death_cause=Firing squad|nationality=Grenadian}}

'''Maurice Bishop''' was the Prime Minister of the [[People's Revolutionary Government (Grenada)|People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada]] from 1979 to his death in 1983. He took power after the overthrow of [[Eric Gairy]], who had ruled for almost 30 years and believed that he had been appointed by God.<ref name=":0">{{Citation|author=John S. Brierley|year=1985|title=A Review of Development Strategies and Programmes of the People's Revolutionary Government in Grenada, 1979-83|title-url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/633276|publisher=The Royal Geographical Society|page=40–47}}</ref>

== Pre-revolution ==
In the early 1970's, the [[Movement for the Assembly of the People]], led by Maurice Bishop, was founded. In March 1973, it merged with the [[Joint Endeavour for Welfare, Education, and Liberation]] (JEWEL) to form the [[Anti-capitalism|anti-capitalist]] [[New Jewel Movement]]. In 1976, Bishop became the opposition leader of the Grenadian parliament.<ref name=":0" />

== Grenadian revolution ==
On 13 March 1979 Bishop and the New Jewel Movement overthrew Gairy's government while Gairy was absent from the island. After taking power, Bishop began a program to stop [[inflation]] of food prices and improve housing, clothing, education, health, food, and recreation. The National Importing Board was established shortly after the revolution and reduced the cost of basic commodities such as rice and sugar. Hotels and farms which had been illegally acquired by Gairy were nationalized, but most of the economy remained privately owned.

In 1980, the [[National Cooperative Development Agency]] was established to start agricultural cooperatives, mostly run by formerly unemployed people. There were also 30 state-owned farms that had been owned by Gairy's administration before the revolution. Workers at these farms were given one-third of the farm's profit and the rest was given to the state.<ref name=":0" /> 

== References ==
[[Category:Anti-imperialists]]
[[Category:Socialist rulers]]
[[Category:Communist leaders]]
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-{{Infobox revolutionary|name=Maurice Bishop|birth_date=29 May 1944|image=File:Maurice Bishop.jpg
+{{Infobox person|name=Maurice Bishop|birth_date=29 May 1944|image=File:Maurice Bishop.jpg
-|birth_place=Aruba, [[Netherlands Antilles]]|death_date=19 October 1983|death_place=Saint George's, [[Grenada]]|death_cause=Firing squad|nationality=Grenadian|political_line=[[Marxism–Leninism]]<br>[[Pan-Africanism]]<br>[[Anti-imperialism]]<br>[[Anti-colonialism]]}}
+|birth_place=Aruba, [[Netherlands Antilles]]|death_date=19 October 1983|death_place=Saint George's, [[Grenada]]|death_cause=Firing squad|nationality=Grenadian}}
-'''Maurice Bishop''' (29 May 1944  — 19 October 1983) was a [[Marxist-Leninist|Marxist–Leninist]] revolutionary who served as the Prime Minister of the [[People's Revolutionary Government (Grenada)|People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada]] from 1979 until his assassination in 1983. He took power after the overthrow of [[Eric Gairy]], who had ruled for almost 30 years and believed that he had been appointed by God.<ref name=":0">{{Citation|author=John S. Brierley|year=1985|title=A Review of Development Strategies and Programmes of the People's Revolutionary Government in Grenada, 1979-83|title-url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/633276|publisher=The Royal Geographical Society|page=40–47}}</ref>
+'''Maurice Bishop''' was the Prime Minister of the [[People's Revolutionary Government (Grenada)|People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada]] from 1979 to his death in 1983. He took power after the overthrow of [[Eric Gairy]], who had ruled for almost 30 years and believed that he had been appointed by God.<ref name=":0">{{Citation|author=John S. Brierley|year=1985|title=A Review of Development Strategies and Programmes of the People's Revolutionary Government in Grenada, 1979-83|title-url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/633276|publisher=The Royal Geographical Society|page=40–47}}</ref>
 == Pre-revolution ==
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 In 1980, the [[National Cooperative Development Agency]] was established to start agricultural cooperatives, mostly run by formerly unemployed people. There were also 30 state-owned farms that had been owned by Gairy's administration before the revolution. Workers at these farms were given one-third of the farm's profit and the rest was given to the state.<ref name=":0" />
-== Assassination ==
-Bishop was assassinated on 19 October 1983 at Fort Rupert, Grenada, by a firing squad after being broken out of house arrest by his supporters. Six days later, the United States took advantage of the resulting turmoil on the island to invade, which they had prepared for months, ending the revolutionary government.
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