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Executive Member Location: Long Island
Registered:: March 27, 2001
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Friday, Aug. 14, 1964
Admission of Failure Cheddi Jagan, British Guiana's Marxist Premier, finally gave in—at least for the time being. Last week East Indian members of Jagan's agricultural workers' union were going back to work after the longest and bloodiest strike in the little South American colony's turbulent history. Even with the six-month strike officially over, peace is returning slowly. Jagan ordered the walkout last February to force recognition of his union by sugar growers, and create enough disturbance to make Britain postpone this autumn's election, which he would most probably lose. He failed on both counts. All he accomplished was to weaken the country's economy and touch off a vicious racial war between his 295,000 East Indian supporters and the colony's 190,000 determinedly anti-Jagan Negroes. To enforce Jagan's demands for his union over an older, bigger union, East Indians started harassing nonstriking Negroes in the sugar fields. Before long, any real issue was forgotten in the racial hatred. Houses were bombed, plantations burned, men, women and children on both sides set upon without mercy. A month ago, terrorists planted a time bomb on a river ferry carrying 69 Negroes; at least 40 were killed. Negroes retaliated by blowing up Jagan's party headquarters in Georgetown, killing a Negro worker and narrowly missing the Premier's Chicago-born Communist wife and party secretary, Janet Rosenberg. Citing "the callous disregard for human life that has been shown by terrorists up and down the country," British Governor Sir Richard Luyt called in 5,000 Tommies to quell the riots and assumed emergency rule—in effect stripping Jagan of power. He also ordered Guianese to turn in all private firearms except licensed pistols, under pain of life imprisonment plus flogging. Through it all, the Colonial Office in London stood firm by the election schedule, while the sugar companies stuck with the established union. By the time Jagan finally called a halt to the strike, in the interests of "national unity and harmony," the deaths totaled 173, with uncounted thousands injured. Moreover, many workers are still idle because cane growers are between spring and fall crops. The beatings and killings continue, and four or five houses go up in flames every night. |
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Executive Member Location: NY
Registered:: February 25, 1999
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where is the source?
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Executive Member Location: Long Island
Registered:: March 27, 2001
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Time now in partnership with CNN |
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Executive Member Location: NY
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is there a link? |
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Executive Member Location: Long Island
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Someone posted the link on the Skeldon site. |
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Junior Peeper Registered:: August 30, 2008
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Both are owned by Time Warner also AOL, and a bunch of newspapers; everything that controls your thinking and what goes into your head; guess who are the main share holders? |
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Executive Member Location: Long Island
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Gosh but they really painted a bad picture of Indians or is it true tthat Indians did all those violent acts at the request of Jagan?
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Executive Member Location: NY
Registered:: February 25, 1999
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the story is biased and full of half truths.
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Member Location: Miami, FL, USA/Georgetown, Guyana
Registered:: February 24, 1999
Posts: 2621
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This was printed in Time magazine in 1964. If you log on to Time website, you can search for articles on British Guiana. You will find many more of the 1950s and early 1960s written from the American point of view.
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Elite Member Location: ny
Registered:: July 12, 2002
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It was Eusi's contention that the violence of 1962 and 1963 was instigated by the PNC and the UF (with the support of the CIA) to destabilize the PPP. He contends that in 1964, having lost out in the Independence talks which forced an early election, and PR (which privileged minority parties, the PNC and the UF and not the PPP), that Jagan wished instability to force a cancelation of these elections. The GAWU strike was called with this in mind and this strike including attacks on scab laborers, many of whom were Africans. Of course tit for tat attacks occurred and both sides instigated violence and also suffered. The notion of PPP innocence is nonsense. They played a dirty role as did the PNC and the UF and the CIA. |
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Elite Member Location: ny
Registered:: July 12, 2002
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This is what Eusi in his book "There is No Guilty Race" has been trying to say but folks have been too consumed with teh "bloodthirsty African" that they refuse to listen. No Indians didnt do "all the violence" but the point is that they werent angels either. |
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Elite Member Location: Homeless in New York, Lil ABC dropout!
Registered:: March 22, 1999
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pfft (again trying not to laugh)! Which Indian does beat up black man except chief?  |
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Elite Member Location: ny
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Lots of them did armed with sharp cutlasses and bombs. |
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Member Registered:: April 04, 2008
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I keep telling people that the PPP is the PNC in a different suit.
I met a Guyanese businessman in Jamaica, Queens, whose parents were staunch PPP supporters from Berbice. The man made me to know that a lot of people underetsimated the PPP under the directorship of Janet Jagan. The man also made it clear that the real architect of the PPP is not Cheddi, but Janet. Cheddi provided his ethnic appeal but the vision and fight came from Janet. It was Janet who refused the PNC's 1985 offer for shared governance with the PPP because the PNC wanted to be the senior partner, whereas Janet aruged that in a fair election the PPP would beat the PNC based on ethnic support from Indians. He said that only few supporters back in the sixties recognized this powerful role Janet played from behind the scenes that did not really augur well for Indians and slowly ended their relationship with the PPP. Others stayed because it gave them something to cling to in light of the belief in the PPP that Blacks would dominate Indians. Look, as matters now stand, the PNC and PPP have no high moral ground over the other. |
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Junior Peeper Registered:: September 01, 2008
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BALLS |
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Elite Member Location: ny
Registered:: July 12, 2002
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Communicator:
He said that only few supporters back in the sixties recognized this powerful role Janet played from behind the scenes [QUOTE] Black people knew full well in the early 60s that janet ran the PPP. |
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Elite Member Location: ny
Registered:: July 12, 2002
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And another bottom house PPP emerges. |
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Amber's GNI Gentleman Location: canada
Registered:: February 17, 2005
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Because he/she does not agree with your wiewpoint.
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Elite Member Location: ny
Registered:: July 12, 2002
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\ yes. Its a documented fact that blacks were attacked during the GAWU strike and all who refuse to admit this are PPP bottom house ignorant racists out to pretend as if Indians were angels during the 60s. Those of us who were around know better than that.. |
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Senior Member Registered:: June 17, 2002
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Typical YSM IDOTS. See how dem jumping to Garbage written by American *****s!!!!
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Senior Member Registered:: June 17, 2002
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Maybe you were around but was blinded by your acute IGNORANCE and STUPIDITY!!!!
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Elite Member Registered:: February 27, 1999
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hahahahaha |
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Elite Member Registered:: February 27, 1999
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Jagan got tricked by this vile woman. |
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Executive Member Location: NY
Registered:: February 25, 1999
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It is. The bombing of freedom house, for example, was an act of pure malice intended to do harm solely for political proposes and had no connection to the strike. We know how it was planned, who carried out the plan and how because the Colonial police were watching and the perp confessed. The MPCA had no support and the governor refused to recognize the one that the workers voted for. Further Richard Ishmael who then headed the union was a terrorist himself and a bag man for the CIA. I am just listing the information as I read them in the historical evidence |