Marcus Garvey People's Political Party

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The Marcus Garvey People's Political Party (MGPPP; {{langx|jam|Makus Gavi Piipl’s Politikal Paati}}) (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|date=January 2014}} 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) or simply PPP.

The People's Political Party (PPP), founded in 1929 by Garvey, is Jamaica's first political party.Tafari-Ama, Imani M., "Blood, Bullets And Bodies: Sexual Politics Below Jamaica's Poverty Line." Beaten Track Publishing (2017), p. 288, {{ISBN|9781786451378}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=-xInDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA288] (retrieved 23 April 2024)Price, Charles, "Rastafari: The Evolution of a People and Their Identity." NYU Press (2022), p. 29, {{ISBN|9781479807154}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=s06VEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA29] (retrieved 23 April 2024) In recent years, the Party has been spearheaded by the Rastafari attorney Ras Miguel Lornne. The Party predominantly compose of RastafarisBarnett, Michael, "Rastafari in the New Millennium: A Rastafari Reader." Syracuse University Press (2014), p. 311, {{ISBN|9780815633600}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=uBaQAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA311] (retrieved 23 April 2024) who have been disenfranchised from political office and tourism in Jamaica, despite their immense contribution to Jamaican culture, and the exporting of Jamaican culture. 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.Barnett, Michael, "Rastafari in the New Millennium: A Rastafari Reader." Syracuse University Press (2014), p. 296, {{ISBN|9780815633600}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=uBaQAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA296] (retrieved 23 April 2024)

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.Price, Charles, "Rastafari: The Evolution of a People and Their Identity." NYU Press (2022), pp. 29-30, {{ISBN|9781479807154}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=s06VEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA29] (retrieved 23 April 2024) From the 1890s, the British tried to eradicate "influential religio-racial leaders." 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. Temple University Associate Professor, Charles Price, writes that, in The Daily Gleaner, an author of that paper described the speeches of PPP candidates as:

:"noxious doctrines," introduced to an "ignorant minori

ty,...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."

Following the death of MGPPP's President, Moses Emanuel Henriques in February 2012, he was succeeded by Leon Burrell,Lansford, Tom, "Political Handbook of the World 2015." CQ Press (2015), p. 3101, {{ISBN|9781483371559}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=yNGfBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT3101] (retrieved 23 April 2024)The Gleaner, "Idle lands to willing hands ... Marcus Garvey party wants property distribution" (18 September 2015) [https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20150921/idle-lands-willing-hands-marcus-garvey-party-wants-property-distribution] (retrieved 23 April 2024) the Caribbean history teacher.

The MGPPP nominated six candidates in the 2016 Jamaican general election.{{cite news|title=Independents Unite To Unseat PNP, JLP|url=http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20160215/independents-unite-unseat-pnp-jlp|accessdate=19 February 2016|work=Jamaica Gleaner|date=16 February 2016}}{{cite news|title=Nomination day highlights|url=http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Nomination-day-highlights_51373|accessdate=19 February 2016|work=Jamaica Observer|date=11 February 2016}}