Maurice Bishop

After he arrived a military force was dispatched from another location to Fort Rupert. Some of Bishop's core principles were workers' rights women's rights and the struggle against racism and Apartheid. He also fathered a son Vladimir Lenin (b.

Maurice Rupert Bishop (29 May 1944 – 19 October 1983) was a Grenadian politician and revolutionary who seized power in a coup in 1979 from Eric Gairy and served as Prime Minister of the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada until 1983 when he was overthrown in another coup by Bernard Coard a member of his own government and executed.