Editing New Jewel Movement (section)

== Revolution ==
On 13 March 1979, the NJM launched a revolutionary coup against the government of Prime Minister Gairy while he was away visiting the U.S.<ref name="Sunkara_article">{{cite news |last=Sunkara |first=Bhaskar |title=The US invaded the island of Grenada 40 years ago. The legacy of revolution lives on
|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/25/the-us-invaded-the-island-of-grenada-40-years-ago-the-legacy-of-revolution-lives-on 
|date=25 October 2023 |newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref> Within hours, the NJM gained control of the country's military barracks, radio stations, government buildings, and police stations.<ref name="Sunkara_article"/> Maurice Bishop then suspended the constitution and announced that the NJM was now a provisional revolutionary government, the [[People's Revolutionary Government]] (PRG), with himself as Prime Minister.

Shortly after taking power, the NJM created the [[People's Revolutionary Army (Grenada)|People's Revolutionary Army]], granting them "the powers of arrest and search as are vested in the members of the [[Royal Grenada Police Force]]."<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dx-PAgAAQBAJ&dq=1979+People%27s+Revolutionary+Army+(Grenada)&pg=PA183 |isbn=9781135338053 |title=Commonwealth Caribbean Constitutional Law |date=4 March 2013 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>

After the revolution, the NJM described itself as a Marxist–Leninist vanguard party, but not a communist party because it didn't believe it had advanced sufficiently to earn that label. According to the NJM, it "practiced policies to reach a point where a communist party could be formed, but considered themselves unready, due to the party not being led by a proletarian class, and due to the low level of education in Marxist-Leninist politics."<ref name="Nandwani_article">{{cite web |last=Nandwani |first=Ravi |year=2013 |title=The Rise and Fall of the New Jewel Movement in Grenada |url=https://www.academia.edu/8012682}}</ref>