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{{Short description|Ruling party of Grenada from 1979 to 1983}} {{Infobox political party | name = New Joint Endeavor for Welfare, Education, and Liberation | native_name = | native_name_lang = | abbreviation = New JEWEL Movement | logo = New JEWEL Movement logo.png | logo_size = | colorcode = #FF0000 | leader = [[Maurice Bishop]] | spokesperson = | leader1_title = | leader1_name = | foundation = {{Start date|1973|03|11|df=y}} | dissolution = {{End date|1983|10|29|df=y}} | membership_year = | membership = | ideology = {{ubl|class=nowrap | [[Communism]] | [[Marxism–Leninism]] | [[Revolutionary socialism]] | [[Pan-Africanism]] }} | merger = {{ubl | Joint Endeavor for Welfare, Education, and Liberation (JEWEL) | Organization for Revolutionary Education and Liberation (OREL) | Movement for Assemblies of the People (MAP) }} | successor = [[Maurice Bishop Patriotic Movement]] | headquarters = | position = [[Far-left]] | religion = | wing1_title = Military wing | wing1 = [[People's Revolutionary Army (Grenada)|People's Revolutionary Army]] | international = | national = People's Alliance (1976) | newspaper = ''The New Jewel'' | colours = *Red and white<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schoenhals |first1=Kai P. |last2=Melanson |first2=Richard A. |title=Revolution and intervention in Grenada: the New Jewel movement, the United States, and the Caribbean |date=1985 |publisher=Westview press |location=Boulder |isbn=0-8133-0225-0 |page=33 |quote=identifying symbol of the NJM revolution appeared everywhere: a white flag containing a red disc.}}</ref> *Red, green and gold ([[Rastafari|Rastafari colours]], only occasionally)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pool |first1=Gail R. |title=Culture, Language and Revolution in Grenada |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25605753 |journal=Anthropologica |publisher=JSTOR |access-date=14 October 2023 |page=89 |doi=10.2307/25605753 |date=1994|volume=36 |issue=1 |jstor=25605753 |url-access=subscription }} Pool mentions an NJM public event where the speaker's platform was painted [[Rastafari|Rastafari colours]] red, green and gold: "Since many members of the militia were youths who identified themselves with the Rastafarian movement, it was likely that the PRG [People's Revolutionary Government] was trying to associate the revolution with rasta ideology."</ref> | slogan = "Forward ever, backward never!<br />({{langx|fr|En avant jambes, en arrière jamais!}}) | seats1_title = | seats1 = | flag = Flag of the New Jewel Movement.png | website = | country = Grenada }} The '''New Joint Endeavor for Welfare, Education, and Liberation''', or '''New JEWEL Movement''' ('''NJM'''), was a [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist–Leninist]] [[vanguard party]] in the [[Caribbean]] island nation of [[Grenada]] that was led by [[Maurice Bishop]]. Established in 1973, the NJM issued its manifesto prior to Grenada being [[History of Grenada#Independence|granted independence]] from the [[United Kingdom]] in 1974.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210916154603/http://www.thegrenadarevolutiononline.com/manifesto.html "The Manifesto of the New Jewel Movement"], The Grenada Revolution Online.</ref> The NJM took control of Grenada with a bloodless [[Coup d'état|coup]] in 1979 and [[Rule by decree|ruled by decree]] as the [[People's Revolutionary Government]] until 1983. In October of that year, Bishop and seven of his associates were killed by paramilitaries affiliated with [[Hardline|hard-line]] elements in his own party. Those elements formed a [[military government]], which was quickly deposed by a [[United States invasion of Grenada|U.S. invasion]] later in October.
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