Submitted by William H Harriss, using some excerpts and information previously published by Peter Binose.

He is a Vincentian of Portuguese ancestry who is a lifetime want to be revolutionary, that regrets never owning his own revolution. He was by his own confession a nasty child and when he went to the Kingstown Grammar School it was there that it was realised he was a budding communist. Ralph first became interested in Karl Marx as a very young man; some say he had already slipped into the Marxist system when he was still at the boy’s Grammar school in Kingstown, Saint Vincent. 

He was well established in the brotherhood and solidarity of Marxism by the time he first met Dr. Walter Rodney at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. As a student their he assisted the much revered Guyanese, Cuban implanted ultra glorious revolutionary Walter Rodney in Jamaica. Rodney was only a few years older than Ralph, he was UWI lecturer, an African Historian holding a Ph.D. in the same, and was seeking to bring a revolutionary experiment to Jamaica. Gonsalves was the university student union leader, and able to give his Marxist strength and knowledge to the other students. Rodney’s Jamaican revolutionary experiment didn’t succeed due to intervention by the Jamaican government. But Gonsalves heroically fought unsuccessfully in riotous assembly to bring him back into the country despite Rodney being banned. Ralph Gonsalves through this very matter had established himself at a young age as a revolutionary hero of the Marxist-Leninist movement.

Gonsalves enraged the Barbadians where he was then dwelling so much because he wrote such things that were true communist thoughts and ideas in the Barbados media. The Bajan Government made him ‘persona non gratis’, and he had to leave the island. Those socialist and Marxist scum Bajans he left behind described him as a hero.

Ralph Gonsalves had become a great supporter of the Cuban revolution. A great and meaningful supporter of the Castro brothers and the Cuban communist party. He believed that good could eventually come to the hemisphere as the Cubans sought to take over the whole of the Americas and Caribbean nations. He believed he was well placed to help them do that, and he never stopped trying. This fight he fought for the Cubans brought him the ultimate award and recognition by the Cubans in May 2022, when they confirmed upon him their highest award for his devotion to Cuban regional infiltration and the furtherance of communism.

In December 1979 Comrade Ralph, as he was now called, a label that he loved because it showed respect for his growing superiority over other politically minded young people in the Caribbean. That superiority was recognized by the Cuban and Russians when he assisted in Grenada revolution. Ralph Gonsalves was chosen by Maurice Bishop to advise him on the political concept and procedures of Marxist-Leninism. Ralph Gonsalves was a qualified political scientist able to advise Bishop on the procedures of a successful revolution. From the earliest days of Grenada’s revolution, Gonsalves generally advised Bishop. Writing Bishops speech’s, and going with Maurice to meetings and rallies, always sitting next to him. Ralph had become a true hero of the Grenadian revolution, recommended by the Russians who said he was “a man who could be trusted.” Gonsalves viewed it as glory and loved it.

Eventually, Ralph Gonsalves had to get back to building his own revolution in his own country, a dream he had since his teenage years. Unfortunately, without Ralph, Maurice Bishop got to arguing with his Grenadian revolutionary partners, and they ended up murdering him. This greatly affected Ralph, and he now witnessed the Empire [USA] destroying the revolution by invading Grenada. That hate for the US fermented in his communist addled brain for many years, and almost certainly still exists today. But like most political cowards he had plenty of mouth and bravado, but the thought of giving his life for a revolution just did not appeal to him. 

On the 26 May 2022, Ralph Gonsalves, was awarded the order of Jose Marti by the Government of the Republic of Cuba. President Diaz-Canel conferred the order on Ralph E Gonsalves, which is Cuba’s highest award named after Cuba’s National Hero, who became a symbol of Cuba’s strength as a communist state.

Gonsalves thanked the Cuban government on behalf of the Vincentian people and the entire Caribbean, who he said, feel a deep love for José Martí, Fidel Castro Ruz and the Cuban Revolution. Of course, hardly a single Vincentian even knew who José Martí was, let alone have a deep love for him

Speaking at the ceremony Gonsalves said his personality was forged in decades of activism in the anti-imperialist [Anti American] ideas and ideals of Martí. In addition, he described the delivery of the order as an honour and dedicated it to the youth of Saint Vincent and the Caribbean. But the Vincentian youth knew nothing about José Martí, this was yet again Gonsalves saying what the Cubans wanted to hear. 

The award ceremony coincided with the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Cuba and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. But during Gonsalves many terms as SVGs PM they had obviously become controllers of SVGs destiny. The peasantisation and Cubanisation was almost complete, or so they thought.

On November 6 2022, The Bolivarian University of Venezuela (UBV) conferred an honorary doctorate on Ralph E Gonsalves. The ‘Doctorate Honoris Causa’.

According to the Venezuelan University, Gonsalves was granted the honorary degree for his “important contribution against the aggression’s of the imperial power groups [The USA and the UK], and his unrestricted defense of counter-hegemonic projects, as well as his fraternity with the Latin American peoples,” the state-owned Agency clearly stated all these reasons.

The Counter-hegemony, refers to the processes and strategies employed by marginalized or oppressed groups to challenge and subvert the dominant ideologies and power structures that perpetuate their subordination. This is communist talk for describing how Gonsalves was gradually converting the Vincentian people away from the British Empire to peasantisation and Cubanisation through a gradual process instead of by a direct revolution. 

Obviously Ralph Gonsalves had led the Venezuelans to believe that SVG was a nation suppressed by America, and ultimately by the British Crown. This was seditious talk and behaviour, Gonsalves should have been pushed out of power at that very moment. I am not sure if sedition is still on SVGs statutes. Gonsalves government did try and use it themselves against Kenson King in 2022.

Gonsalves holds a PhD in government, awarded by the University of Manchester (England), and a Master of Science degree in government and a Bachelor of Science degree in economics, both from the University of the West Indies. In other words Gonsalves is a Political Scientist. He is an expert in the manipulation and control of government and people. 

Gonsalves decided sooner than risk his own life during a real revolution, he would use the political scientific method of Gradualism. During several formative years, he convinced the Vincentian public that the sun shone out of his backside. The people became obsessed with him because he was blessed with charisma and charm. He could put his arm around someone’s shoulder and hug them up and convince them he was sent directly by God. He was able in this way to brainwash people and have them follow and worship him. Those same people were gradually reduced to peasants through policies and inflation. They were happy to have little or nothing and live in wooden shacks with tin roofs. As the years went by, people were happy with nothing because they had never had anything. The gradual communist revolution in SVG was almost successful; Gonsalves had held power for twenty-five years. Crime was at its worst. Low incomes and no incomes breed crime, Gonsalves’ government told us that was untrue, but it was true. People disappeared over the years, and assassinations and attempted assassinations were talked about in bars. People left the island, especially women who were sick of the rape and violence culture the peasantised classes had adopted. Many left the island in fear for their lives. Businesspeople who supported political opposition parties and had their lives and businesses destroyed became active on social media. SVG had become a hellhole, and some even began describing it rather crudely on social media as a shit hole. 

Then at the 2025 elections, all was exposed, all the poor people were informed of how Ralph Gonsalves’ family had become rich over the last twenty-five years, whilst they had all got poorer. Then it was exposed that the Gonsalves family members bought three properties in Trinidad for more than four million dollars. That just may have been the beginning of the end for Ralph Gonsalves. It seemed to extinguish that ray of sunshine Gonsalves emitted, and then when he went on TV and begged the followers to vote for him, reverse psychology kicked in, and they voted for the opposition party. Enough was enough, and he had exposed his weakness; he showed them he was not God sent, but was simply a man they could escape from. Gonsalves had dug his own pit and buried himself in it.

So, for those affected by him and his policies, I have heard it said, goodbye to bad rubbish.

I wish the National Democratic Party [NDP] every success for the future. Well done, the people are expecting a lot from you. But with hard work and devotion, you will prove the electorate right in their choice.