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In a macabre way, debt, drugs and development all have a bearing upon each other. All three are incapable of being defeated in the case of drugs; of solution in the case of debt; or of progress in the case of development, if pursued in a purely national context.

— Michael Manley The Politics of Change (1974)

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Democracy should be as much a system of participation as a method of representation.

To understand today’s politics one must always begin with yesterday’s economics.

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Where political sovereignty has been conceded but economic power remains untouched, equality remains a myth, social justice proves unattainable and even freedom becomes an ambiguous phenomenon.

Democracy means far more than the right to vote every five years. It means the right to participate in every aspect of national and community life. The people must believe that they can take part.

We believe that the idea of equality is the only enduring principle by which mankind may be guided in the conduct of national and international affairs.

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