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PPP hails revolutionary Una Mulzac
Life-long revolutionary and internationalist, Una Mulzac, who contributed to Guyana’s anti-colonial
Una Mulzac, life-long revolutionary and internationalist
struggle for independence, passed away on January 21, after dedicating years to the fight for freedom.
The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) described Mulzac as a close friend of the former President Janet Jagan, who wished to make a contribution to the anti-colonial struggle after her arrival to the then British Guiana in 1962.
According to the party, Mulzac’s task was to develop the Party’s book shop, then known as the “Progressive Book Shop” where she became its manager.
“This was a turbulent time in our country. She was the manager of the Book Shop when a terriorist of the opposition PNC placed a bomb in the building. That bomb killed the young PYO stalwart Michael Forde and Mulzac was also injured and had to be hospitalized,” the Party stated in a release.
“While she was in her hospital bed, Mulzac suggested that the name of the Book Shop be changed to Michael Forde Book Shop, in memory of the deceased young man. After the country gained its independence in 1966, she was forced to return to her home in the United States of America (USA), because she was refused citizenship by the PNC regime.”
The release further explained that on her return to the USA, Mulzac established a Book Shop in Harlem, New York, which she named the “Liberation Book Store.” There she continued selling “progressive and revolutionary literature.”
“She saw herself as an educator and her work was aimed at raising the level of political consciousness of the working people of the USA by providing literature that offered another view from that of the transnational media.”
Una Mulzac was the daughter of Hugh N. Mulzac, the first Black person to command a ship in the United States. He too was a socialist and was investigated by the Congren- House Committee on UN- America Activities in 1960 because of his political belief.
Una Mulzac was born on April 19, 1923.
In the USA, her bookstore became one which was well-known and well-loved for selling books about African-American Identity and racial justice.
It became a landmark and closed in 2007 when Mulzac’s health deteriorated and she could no longer run it.
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