All hail Walter, a great Guyanese.

Burnham, Green and the PNC robbed the nation of a man like this who believed in national and racial unity.

Read his pamphlet: "The Three Trials of Arnold Rampersaud."

A GREAT man he was indeed.

I wonder if Roopnarine even remember the great Rodney or he is too busy fulling his pocket!!!!!!!

A great Guyanese. His dream for working class unity lives on forever. Guyana will only move forward when there is unity among the races and democracy at all levels of society, including political parties. He should be awarded the highest honor for his work in Guyana and the world.

People's power, no dictator.

I doan know why Rodney is so worshipped. I get it. He fought against a dictatorship and made some good speeches. But he was still never a national figure. He was at heart a Black nationalist and a Marxist. That's not really the makings of the kind of man Guyana needed. What was he gonna do in office? Be truer to marxism/communism than Burnham?

P.S...I always find it quaint how Guyanese people (Blacks and Indians) deify anyone in politics no matter how flawed or dangerously flawed. Jim Jones obviously did not bring the Gospel of Cultism to Guyana. We seem to have invented it.

He certainly does!  Wow, did not know he got his Phd at 24.   He had a son in my sister's class at QC, very smart kid. 

Never a national figure?  How do you draw that conclusion?  The man was an international figure much less a national figure.  Damn I was a communist/socialist/marxist in those days.  Today I consider myself a conservative liberal, what does that mean?

Wow! A Black guy Alunatic Gyal doesn't automatically hate. Then again he is safely deceased and his corpse is useful to the PPP to prove how bad of a man Burnham really was.

That was one of the reason I looked up to him.  

I do not know Rodney. Charlie Cassato took me a couple times to freedom house and other venue to listen to him. I was a disinterested 16 year old.
He was indeed charismatic and spoke fluidly ( I hate people who punctuate their speech with ahm....yes...you know....aaah etc) as I hate parenthetical sentences. As you know, I very seldom do it.

Rodney certainly was bright but his skill in organizing protests to the administration was not very good. He had the masses in his arms but failed to meet the bar of a Ghandi or a Dr King. He reached for a weapon without realizing he had the most powerful one in his grasp....ability to move people by the hundreds to particular ends.

So this is a little story I have to share that I though was amusing.

Walter just came back to Guyana and was establishing himself in Guyanese politics.  Anyway, there was a meeting at Kitty Market Square where he was presenting a lot of historical facts and there was this PNC lady heckling him all the time "yuk know wha yuh talking bout" so at one point Walter stopped and said "I speak as a historian."  You could have heard a pin drop...needless to say the lady disappeared.

Another story:

In the height of the struggle we were holding a protest without permission in Kitty  and the police took after Walter.  Walter took off and left them in his shadows.  I saw this.  Burnham use to make joke abut this incident saying that Walter will represent Guyana at the Olympics.

He commanded a lot of respect and had all the young folks energized with Politics.

Gotta agree that Rodney was a Black Nationalist but a South-South Third-Worldist socialist rather than the classic Soviet style or Maoist style socialist. He was more of a Black Power advocate for Blacks disadvantaged all over the world.

I wonder why Nehru was not concerned that the PPP was all for Rodney to be banished and the Committee of Inquiry never had the massalla in it.

Not sure what you are talking about here.  I was there for every protest.  There were significant numbers for all protests.  Burnham did not use to give permission for protests marches and frankly that was one of the reasons why the protests were successful.  Towards the end Burnham did start giving permission and things started to fizzle.

As I said, I was there as a viewer. I saw the adoration, the belief that ends can be achieved in standing up to a brutal regime. However, that was not maximized and he got himself blown up so obviously his gains tho significant in showing the regime could be stared down was otherwise marginal. Burnham went on to lord over us for another 10 years.

You know politics really never came up during the protests.  It was all about unifying to get rid of Burnham.  It was know that Walter had socialist ideology, however...and frankly that was one of the reasons I liked him