Guyana Politics

Salaam All...Let's keep getting to know our history through the eyes of Walter Rodney. Back in the late 70s as our fists pumped the air the cry of " People's Power, NO DICTATOR  " left our lips...over and over again we shouted that slogan as thousands of us marched behind the renowned Walter Rodney. Jagan was still the force but our young blood needed the militancy that Rodney brought.  The following piece by Walter Rodney who was murdered (1980) by Burnham is a  MUST-READ . It has many gems...like these (a-f):  a.  An old woman at Bourda shouted at a recent  political  meeting that "Burnham mek Satan cry!"  This remarkable piece of wit from the Georgetown streets was in response to the deviousness of a man who has worked out a long-term plan for  dividing and ruling the  Guyanese  people  - all of whom  he holds in deep contempt . (It's possible that with all the sins of APNU that  "Granger mek Satan bawl!" ) b....

Political  power,  cut adrift from religion, is a deadly poison ; wedded to religion, it is an antidote for all poisons. Gandhi confirms this: “Those who say religion has nothing to do with  politics   do not know what religion is .” And so does Einstein: Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither. How powerful the following poem...shedding light in these dark  political  times (dark because of the vulgarity, the blatant lies, the racism, the attacks)... .............................. ........ Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been  broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls ; Where words come out from the depth of truth ; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way  into the dreary desert sand of dead habit ; Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever-widenin...