NUFF at the cusp of an idea: Grassroots Guerrillas and the politics of the 1970s in Trinidad and Tobago

Social Identities

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 415-439

  Meeks, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRASSROOTS LEVEL; POLITICAL PROCESS; VIOLENCE;

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

EID: 0033399305     PISSN: 13504630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504639951428     Document Type: Article

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