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How Michael Manley Took on Aluminum Giants
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They were digging up Jamaica's soul and paying us almost nothing for it. Six of the biggest aluminum companies in the world. Alcoa. Alcan. Kaiser. Reynolds. Revere. Anaconda. All of them pulling bauxite out of Jamaican ground. All of them getting rich. And Jamaica? Getting roughly twenty million dollars a year. Then came Michael Manley. May 15, 1974. Manley stood in Parliament and announced the bauxite levy. A production tax set at seven and a half percent of the price of aluminum ingot. No negotiation. No permission asked. Just done. The companies were stunned. Revere Aluminum ran straight to the
