Strikes and demonstrations are commonly used in struggles for freedom. Some struggles for freedom involve armed struggle. We cherished those who victored over the enemy and extolledl them to the sky even though they may have been excesses. The PPP never used violence in its struggle against he PNC dictatorship. Strikes and demonstrations were used mostly in the sugar industry. There were some cases of angry strikers burning sugar cane fields. Mr. Jeffrey is using the burning of sugar cane fields to discredit the PPP's struggle for democracy in Guyana saying that it made the party no different from the PNC.