In 1974, the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) formed in Guyana as a political compact forged by the Working People’s Vanguard Party, the African Society for Cultural Relations with Independent Africa (ASCRIA), the Indian Political Revolutionary Associates and Ratoon. The WPA, while best known for the involvement of Pan-African historian and theorist Walter Rodney, should be equally appreciated for its momentous challenge to the political orthodoxy of Burnhamism. Burnhamism reigned under the guardianship of its namesake, Forbes Burnham, the Afro-Guyanese statesman and progenitor of “co-operative socialism” in Guyana.
The Value of a Whale
Did you know that a large blue whale does the job of thousands of trees? These massive mammals have an incredible ability to remove carbon…