Workers Party of Jamaica Workers Party of Jamaica The Workers Party of Jamaica (WPJ) was a Marxist-Leninist political party in Jamaica. WPJ was founded on 17 December 1978, by Trevor Munroe, along with Elean Thomas and others. Munroe, a Rhodes scholar from Oxford University, served as its general secretary. The forerunner of WPJ was the Workers Liberation League. WPJ was a "critical ally" of the People's National Party (PNP) of Michael Manley. With WPJ backing, the PNP government developed closer relations to Cuba, which irritated the United States. However, in the late 1970s, the WPJ participated in Jamaican popular resistance to fiscal controls imposed
Democratic Party for the People leader. Interim co-leader Tamaki was elected as the permanent leader of the party. Democratic Party for the People The , , abbreviated to DPFP or DPP, is a centrist political party in Japan. The party was formed on 7 May 2018 from the merger of the Democratic Party and Kibō no Tō. The party was initially to be named the National Democratic Party before the predecessor parties decided on the current official English language name. On 28 September 2017, Democratic Party leader Seiji Maehara announced that the party had abandoned plans to contest the 2017 general election, with the party's