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by Ken Fuller (Caribbean Solidarity)

SINCE the elections in Jamaica last October 30th, there have been firm indications that Edward Seaga's rightwing Jamaican Labour Party government is moving to limit effective opposition to its monetarist policies.

Most blatant has been the attack on the media. At the Jamaican Broadcasting Corporation, there have been numerous sackings and redundancies' (these jobs were immediately advertised, until the journalists obtained a Supreme Court injunction).

The Daily News, in which the State has the majority holding, and which has shown that it has the courage to carry material critical of the Seaga government, is currently up for sade.

The Struggle, fortmightly paper of the Wotkers' Party the previous goraematt of Michael Manley's FIP, wis informed earlier this year by its printer that it must post a 50,000-dollar bond, and that its print costs have been trebled. Meanwhile, D K Dances, general secretary of the PNP, has had a series of charges levelled at him since the Most have either been dropped or thrown out of court, but the most serious, lilegal possession of a firearm, remains.

Duncan will appear in the Gun Court in September. If found guilty, he could face a life sentence.

Duncan is reckoned to be a fine political organiser, and is the leader of the left within his party.

The London-based Caribbean Labour Solidarity is conducting a campaign on these issues, which it sees as campaign calls for protests requests donations, 17th. Donations and re

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