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June 16, 2020 , 72 years ago colonial police shot and killed five sugar workers at Enmore, East Coast Demerara. The five: Rambarran, Pooran, Lallabagee, Surajballi and Harry, became known as the Enmore Martyrs following their deaths on June 16, 1948. The Enmore Martyrs fought for bettering working conditions for sugar workers paying the ultimate price.Today that never ending struggle for workers rights continue. Their sacrifices brought many changes and led to the formation of unions and many movements to fight against injustice..Sadly those in power since the restoration of democracy failed to protect that legacy and secure a powerful industry and its massive workforce..Today over 7000 are on the breadline as the industry goes under. The struggle continues..

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@Former Member posted:

No, Rama. PPP/C is for all Guyanese. Irfaan Ali and Mark Phillips are symbolic of the two major ethnic components but the Party's list of candidates has the other parts. All Guyana wins with the PPP/C.

Good luck with that...tell it to David Hinds and Takuma Ogunsese. For most Afros, Phillips is seen as being compromised, most Afros will not accept the leadership of the PPP. 

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@VishMahabir posted:

Good luck with that...most Afros will not accept the leadership of the PPP. 

That's not the PPP/C's fault. The trend started since the 1957 general elections. Fortunately with patriotic struggle and patience the PPP/C has drawn them little by little towards Freedom House. The process is ongoing.

FM
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I was just told by my dad, my grandfather was in a cane punt when bullets were fired and he was brushed by a bullet that grazed his belt. My grandmother was in an advance state of pregnancy . The incoming Caricom chairman Hon. Ralph Gonsalves spoke at a rally in 1978 at Robert Square in Enmore commemorating this event.

FM
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Cheddi Jagan was moved by the murder of the sugar workers to continue his struggle for the working class.  That he did until he was called home.  The PPP is being grossly hypocritical in using this day for political gain because the PPP today is far from that of Jagan's party.  The PPP is in bed with the PSC, GCCI and characters  like Kit Nascimento, all seen by Cheddi as enemies of the working class.  

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@Totaram posted:

Cheddi Jagan was moved by the murder of the sugar workers ...The PPP is in bed with the PSC, GCCI and characters  like Kit Nascimento, all seen by Cheddi as enemies of the working class.  

True, that was so in the 1960s and '70s. But Cheddi Jagan looked at things dialectically. One feature of dialectics is change. Nothing is static in life, but dynamic. People change in response to different circumstances.

The PPP/C hired Kit Nascimento to do some public relations work even when Janet Jagan was President. The Jagdeo and Ramotar administrations continued what Janet Jagan started. 

As for the PSC and the other business bodies, the PPP had reached out to them since 1982, following a suggestion at the Party Congress at Mon Repos that year. Cheddi Jagan himself led PPP delegations to talks with the private sector bodies.

FM

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