Ralph Gonsalves
Ralph Everard Gonsalves (lahir 1945) atau dikenal "Comrade Ralph," adalah Perdana Menteri Saint Vincent dan Grenadines. Ia mencapai posisi itu pada 29 Maret 2001. Ia juga adalah pimpinan Partai Uni Buruh (Unity Labour Party) dan won the 2001 general elections by a landslide, after a close run in the 1998 elections.
He first entered political life as a student at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica; in 1968, as president of the Guild of Undergraduates, Gonsalves led the student protest at the banning of popular historian and intellectual Walter Rodney.
Gonsalves received his Ph.D. in political science from UWI, Mona, and went on to receive a law degree from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados before returning to practice law and become an active politician in his homeland.
Bibliography
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Books
- The spectre of imperialism: the case of the Caribbean (University of the West Indies; 128 pages, 1976)
- The non-capitalist path of development: Africa and the Caribbean (One Caribbean Publishers; 1981)
- History and the future: a Caribbean perspective (169 pages, 1994)
- Notes on some basic ideas in Marxism-Leninism (University of the West Indies; 56 pages)
Pamphlets
- The Rodney affair and its aftermath (University of the West Indies; 21 pages, 1975)
- The development and class character of the bourgeois state: the case of St. Vincent (University of the West Indies; 15 pages, 1976)
- Controls and influences on the civil service and statutory bodies in the Commonwealth Caribbean: a preliminary discussion (University of the West Indies; 67 pages, 1977)
- The development of the labour movement in St. Vincent (37 pages, 1977)
- Who killed sugar in St. Vincent? (United Liberation Movement; 21 pages, 1977)
- On the political economy of Barbados (One Caribbean Publishers; 49 pages, 1981)
- The trade union movement in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (Movement for National Unity; 64 pages, 1983)
- Ebenezer Joshua: his ideology and style (Movement for National Unity; 39 pages, 1984)
- (editor) The trial of George McIntosh (Caribbean Diaspora Press; 80 pages, 1985)
- Authority in the police force: its uses and abuses (Movement for National Unity; 45 pages, 1986)
- Banana in trouble: its present and future (Movement for National Unity; 22 pages, 1989)
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Perdana Menteri Saint Vincent dan the Grenadines 2001– |
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