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 The Guyanese Nation recaptures the unity of 1953

Jun 14, 2023 Letters

Dear Editor,

1953 is a year celebrated in Guyanese History as an annus mirabilis. It was a time when the nation was overcome with a euphoria generated by the complete racial, religious, social and political unity under the leadership of Dr. Cheddi Jagan, Janet Jagan and Mr. LFS Burnham and a number of others not so well known such as Eusi Kwayana and Jodha Samaroo who presided over the Clerical and Commercial Workers Union.  People look back to this time with nostalgia.

At the beginning of 1950’s, Guyana was sucked into the Cold War and the Cold Warriors were bent on the destruction of this Guyanese Unity. The strategy they used was to subvert the People’s Progressive Party under whose aegis the national unity was consolidated and the tactic they used was to cause defections among the Party’s leadership. They succeeded all too well and by 1957, the Party was broken.

The main reason the Cold Warriors succeeded was because the national unity was brought about by the leaders. The cycle of History has again come around and the Guyanese nation is again being unified but this time, it is not a unity brought about by the leaders, it is a unity brought about by the People. People are inexorably moving towards achieving that desired unity and are passing by the daily harangues and calls of a few has-been politicians that they should be racialists.  These racists’ dog whistles are ignored as the People move forward to recreate the PPP of 1953. The nation is now moving into First World Status in its social, economic and political life and achieving unbreakable unity, prosperity, peace and Democracy.

Yours sincerely,

Paul Validum Ramlochan 

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