Crisis in the Caribbean / Fitzroy Ambursley and Robin Cohen -- State capitalism in Guyana / Clive Y. Thomas -- Achievements and contradictions of the Cuban workers' state / Jean-Pierre Beauvais -- Jamaica / Fitzroy Ambursley -- Nicaragua / Henri Weber with a postscript by Patrick Camiller -- Class structure and socialist strategy in El Salvador / James Dunkerly -- Guadeloupe-Martinique / Philippe Alain Blérald -- Class formation and class struggle in Suriname / Sandew Hira -- Grenada / Fitzroy Ambursley -- The changing pattern of state control in St Vincent and the Grenadines / Philip Nanton -- State capitalism in a petroleum-based economy / José Miguel Sandoval