Andrew Sage

That was a split in Karakom that took years to recover from.

And I think most crucially, the fall of the New Jewel Movement led to the death, in all but name, of the Caribbean left.

From distrust, from infighting, and from this resolute enforcement of the New Colonial Model.

For all the flaws that the revolution had, it was a representation of an alternative.

That something else could be done besides business as usual.

And that alternative first felt in fighting, and then its fate was sealed by a belligerent invasion.

And so the Caribbean left, not to say it's actually entirely dead.

There are still figures from that era.

There are still people who carry progressive or revolutionary politics.

But its heyday, its golden age is no more.

And that is in part as a result of that U.S.

invasion.

And within Grenada, the bodies of those killed were never found in some cases.

The families of those killed or of the party members

may even still be divided to this day.

You know, you can imagine how they must feel, the sort of social and political divisions that came out of that kind of action.

Who sided with Cord, who sided with Bishop, who sided with the US, who stood against, who brought, whose actions were responsible for the US coming.

If the revolution never happened, then the US wouldn't have come, these people wouldn't be dead.

Blame game, accusations, political conflicts, all of that.

It's very easy to breeze over the deaths of people in historical events as just numbers, as just statistics.