THE  Working People’s Alliance (WPA) has a real problem now that it has merged itself with the  PNC/APNU.  The problem is that whatever recognition that party may still have is due to the man Walter Rodney.Now that they have decided to go into bed with the PNC, the party that brutally murdered Rodney, they now have to find a way to begin to ditch Rodney and up-hold the man responsible for his death, Forbes Burnham. It is now being said by leading WPA persons that Rodney was planning to kill Burnham.  So Burnham had to kill him. All that Rodney stood for is now thrown out to justify their betrayal of him.  They no longer talk of why Rodney was opposed to Burnham/PNC dictatorship.  They have conveniently forgotten that Burnham had destroyed democracy in our country and he had turned it into one of the most backward countries in the western hemisphere.  A transformation from being the most developed in the English-speaking Caribbean when he took office in 1965. They do not want to recall that the Burnham-led PNC fought against independence for our country; it is an inconvenient truth to now say that he collaborated with the colonial power and CIA agents to create havoc in our country and to provide an excuse for the withholding of independence. Today, it is a sad travesty to see former ‘Rodneyites’ such as Rupert Roopnarine bowing to and taking instructions from ‘Burnhamite’ enforcers such as David Granger.  It sickens the stomach to see this betrayal of their leader’s legacy by these former comrades of Rodney. It is also a fact that Burnham only came out to support South Africa when it became “fashionable” to do so.  Before that he had said nothing. Even when he donated $US50,000 dollars  to the Organization of African Unity (OAU) it was not just for South Africa.  That included the Pan Africanist Congress of South Africa, the UNITA and FNLA of Angola all of which were playing similar roles for imperialism as Burnham did for colonialism. Walter Rodney, on the other hand, was an uncompromising fighter against colonialism/imperialism.  He was a true freedom fighter and defender of Africa’s liberation.  He was a fighter for freedom of people the world over. His murder alone is enough to justify the withholding of the Oliver Tambo award from Burnham. The South Africans, especially the ANC, cannot afford to allow the name of Oliver Tambo to be defiled in any way. Time is catching up with the fraudsters in the WPA.  I can conclude with a famous quotation: “Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.”