1963 CLR James published a book called Party Politics in the west Indies.
James had broken with the PNM and in setting up his own independence in regional politics he explained a whole lot to the west Indian people, about the process that led to independence, and the nature of politics in the region.
in the explaining the process James said that only Eric Williams of all regional leaders, wanted independence..that they all, without exception, were prepared to continue under British tutelage and colonialism
on break-up of the federation and movement to individual independence James mentioned talks between Williams and the British colonial secretary colonial sec, Ian McLeod, that contained according to my memory such comments as "you can get back Chaguramas, we will have a word with the Americans about that. you can get independence for sure. but you know what we want."
'all else is fine as long as the basic conditions we established are adhered to.' that was the clear implication in that report.
I don't recall if James went on to explain. I did not get an explanation but that stuck with me. what did the British stipulate for Williams, what was so basic that they insisted on it as a condition for independence.
I bounced into that book by 1965 and by 1968 I came to understand what it was that the colonial secretary insisted on for Titty..indeed for all the islands on the way to 'independence'.
it was monetary control. that's it! the British wanted the central bank of each island..or collection of islands..or the federation if that was the way the independence went forward.. and they got it. and as time went on I came to understand exactly what that meant for the west Indies.
so that was it..The Taboo Subject in the region..the openly held secret that meant Independence was a sham, a fake, a jackass thing. and all we lived was a social buffoonery with all our independence pomp.
I laffed.... became absolutely radical, openly contemptuous of all our leaders and political parties, of the nation that was not...the nation, the region, that was just a shell of s***..the west Indies
if I observed any limit at all it was talking about the banking itself as it related to our continuing enslavement... for I knew that that was death.
so certain people who had some regard for me suggested that I leave Trinidad or death indeed, not too far along, would follow for me.
so that is the west Indies..all these fifty years since 1962..and before, backwards to the federation in 1958. it did not matter what political form we took to independence..individual or collective. the British did not care. the 'independence' they had for us was ours for the taking. as long as they got the central bank(s)
the British..Zionists really.. had evolved a foolproof means of social control that was cost-free, and far more comprehensive and effectively controlling, than direct colonial administration, that was expensive and an ever present incitement for rebellion
the only expense of financial control was anticipatory..the sending in of the troops in case of local rebellion against those locals they had left in charge... people like Williams himself, who above all the west Indian leaders of his time , knew and understood what he was doing..what he had accepted and done to the west Indian people.
For intervention when necessary, the British... they had to keep enough military capability armed and ready. and that was/is an expense... a high one.
but such cost is borne by the British people through their taxes.... not the bankers who actually control and profit from the 'new' process, under the principle of getting something for nothing
Eric Williams, the great economic historian, was the west Indian Woodrow Wilson, the american president who capitulated to the bankers in 1913, signing into law the Federal Reserve Act which established the same social rape of the American people, as imposed on the west Indies by 1962..as Williams agreed to for Titty ...really the entire west Indies for Williams was head and shoulders the main man in the west Indian leadership group of the time
Independent west Indies began on a lie... an and continues to founder socially on that same life 50 years up the road
there is no possibility of any positive change in the west Indian social life, as long as that reality remains in place.
all the social horror in the region is exists as a result of that fact..the fact that the west Indian economy is taxed into the ground by forriners.
no west Indian currency is owned by the west Indian people. and all the wealth produced in the region is siphoned out, does not remain for social investment for the development of the region.. all money west Indian governments must spend is in turn borrowed at cost, which the people pay back through their taxes.
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