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In 1975 there was labour unrest when the major unions representing oil workers and sugar workers marched in San Fernando and were met by brutal police resistance. This became known as "Bloody Tuesday". Further unrest in the 1970s had little lasting impact.
The Black Power Revolution, also known as the Black Power Movement, 1970 Revolution, Black Power Uprising or February Revolution, was a period of political unrest in Trinidad and Tobago as a result of a series of actions spearheaded by Black power and left-wing political groups in the country aiming to achieve radical socio-political changes.
The National Union of Freedom Fighters (NUFF) was an armed Marxist revolutionary group in Trinidad and Tobago.Active in the aftermath of the 1970 Black Power Revolution, the group fought a guerrilla warfare campaign to overthrow the government of Prime Minister Eric Williams following the failed Black Power uprising and an unsuccessful mutiny in the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment.
The Trinidad Labour Party was a working-class party, but had seen its support decline from 12% of the electorate in 1946 to 5% in 1956. [ citation needed ] Both the PDP and the POPPG had achieved electoral support by appealing to the Indo-Trinidadian and Afro-Trinidadian working classes, but the rise of the PNM split the Afro-Trinidadians away ...
Labour Unrest of 1934–39 (1934–1939) Trinidad and Tobago: Trinidadian and Tobagonian Rioters: Victory. Report of West India Royal Commission (Moyne Report) Black Power Revolution (1970) Trinidad and Tobago: National Joint Action Committee: Victory. Arrests of Black Power leaders
In the 1981 elections the party joined with the Democratic Action Congress and the Tapia House Movement to form the Trinidad and Tobago National Alliance. [2] However, its vote share fell to 15.2%, falling behind the Organisation for National Reconstruction , and losing two of its ten seats (the DAC won two and the Tapia House Movement none).
Raffique Shah (born 1946) [1] [2] is a Trinidad and Tobago trade union leader and political commentator. He is also a former Member of Parliament and mutineer, having led a mutiny of Trinidad and Tobago Regiment in 1970.
Social unrest in Trinidad and Tobago; W. Water Riots This page was last edited on 28 September 2020, at 01:24 (UTC). ...