PRIVATE COMMENTS OF ANTHONY SPAULDING, RADICAL MINISTER OF HOUSING, ON THE IMF, THE WORKER'S PARTY OF JAMAICA, AND THE INTERNAL POLITICS OF THE PEOPLE'S NATIONAL PARTY

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• Case Number: F-2017-01652
• Publication Date: January 19, 1979

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PRIVATE COMMENTS OF ANTHONY SPAULDING, RADICAL MINISTER
OF HOUSING, ON THE IMF, THE WORKER'S PARTY OF JAMAICA,
AND THE INTERNAL POLITICS OF THE PEOPLE'S NATIONAL
PARTY
1. TONY SPAULDINS, MINISTER OF MOUSING AND A
LEADER OF THE RADICAL FACTION OF THE PEOPLE'S NATIONAL PARTY
CPNP), COMMENTED IN PRIVATE TO DENNIS M 0 RR IS 0 No
SPECIAL ADVISOR TO PRIME MINISTER WICHAELMANLEYAND
OTHER PNP OFFICIALS THAT HE AND MOST OF
THE LEFTISTS IN THE PNP FERVENTLY HOPED THE GOVERNMENT OF
JAMAICA MOULD NOT PASS THE NEXT SET OF IMF TESTS IN MARDI
1979. SPAULDING BELIEVELTHAT IF JAMAICA ?FAIL!, THE IMF
TESTS, AND THUS LIKELY BECOMES INELIGIBLE FOR FURTHER
-MONETARY LOANS FROM THE IMF AND WESTERN NATIONS, THE EASTERN
;EUROPEAN BLOC OF NATIONS, INCLUDING THE USSR WILL STEP IN AND
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PROVIDE THE NECESSARY AID. SPAULDING SAID A FAILURE TO MEET
THE IMF TESTS MOULD CONCLUSIVELY PROVE THAT CAPITALISM WOULD
NOT WORK IN JAMAICA AND THAT THE PNP MODERATES WHO HAD ADVOCATED
DEALING WITH THE IMF WOULD BE DISCREDITED, ALLOWING THE LEFTISTS
TO ASSERT THEMSELVES AND TAKE OVER LEADERSHIP OF THE PNP.
2. SPAULDING ALSO SAID LEFTISTS HAD NO PLAN TO ACTIVELY
SABOTAGE THE GOVERNMENTS EFFORTS TO PASS THE MARCH IMF TESTS,
BUT SINCE THE ECONOMY WAS IN SUCH A SHAMBLES, THIS WOULD NOT BE
NECESSARY, SPAULDING SAID ME FELT THE RECENT DEMONSTRATIONS
OF 8-10 JANUARY 1979 AIDED THE LEFTIST CAUSE.BY.SHOwING TANGIBLE
EVIDENCE OF WIDESPREAD UNREST AND THE INABILITY OF THE IMF TO
ALLEVIATE FINANCIAL DISTRESS AMONG THE PEOPLE,
3. 'SPAULDING SAID FAILURE OF THE MARCH IMF TESTS WOULD
FREE mANLEY FROM THE PRESSURE OF MODERATE AND RIGHT PIING
PAM MEMBERS AND ALLOW HIM TO OPENLY FOLLOW HIS TRUE LEFTIST
BENT. IF, ON THE OTHER HAND, JAMAICA PASSED THE MARCH IMF
TESTS, SPAULDING CAUTIONED, THE FUTURE CHANCES OF THE LEFTISTS'
GAINING CONTROL OF THE PNP LEADERSHIP WOULD BE GREATLY DIMINISHED.
SPAULDING ALSO OPINED THAT THE WORKER'S PARTY OF JAMAICA AMPJ)
WAS PRESENTLY ENJOYING THE TACIT APPROVAL OF THE PNP AND THAT
WITHOUT THIS APPROVAL THE MPJ WOULD BE A NOWDENTITY,
DURING A CABINET SESSION ON 9 JANUARY 1979, AFTER SPAULDING HAD
-ADVOCATED ALLIANCE WITH THE wPJ DURING THE 84.10 JANUARY 1979 DISTURB-
ANCES, P.J.PATTERSO Nt DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER TOLD SPAULDING
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THAT IF HE WERE SUCH A STRONG PROPONENT OF WPJ POLICY. HE
'SHOULD JOIN THE WPJ AND LEAVE THE TASK OF GOVERNING JAMAICA To THE
PNP,
4, sPAULDING SAID THAN UNOFFICIAL TACTIC INFORMALLY
'AGREED UPON BY LEFTIST PNP MEMBERS OF THE CABINET WAS TO
DISAGREE WITH RIGHT WING OR MODERATE CABINET MEMBERS, ESPECIALLY
PATTERSON, ERIC B EL Le MINISTER OF FINANCE,
.NORACECLARKE, MINISTER OF MINING, ENERGY AND
RESOURCES, WHENEVER THE OCCASION PRESENTED ITSELF,
SPAULDING GAVE NO REASON FOR THIS TACTIC BUT IT
PROBABLK REPRESENTS LEFTIST PNP DESIRE TO DISSOCIATE FROM
THE MODERATES' POLICIES SO THAT WHEN THEY FAIL, THE LEFTISTS WILL BE
BLAMELESS.)
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