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 Associatie Professor, Charles Price, writes that, in The Dailey Gleaner, an author of that paper described the speeches of PPP cadidates 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

^ ^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.