In 1974, the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) formed in Guyana as a political compact forged by the Working People’s Vanguard Party, the African Society for Cultural Relations with Independent Africa (ASCRIA), the Indian Political Revolutionary Associates and Ratoon. The WPA, while best known for the involvement of Pan-African historian and theorist Walter Rodney, should be equally appreciated for its momentous challenge to the political orthodoxy of Burnhamism. Burnhamism reigned under the guardianship of its namesake, Forbes Burnham, the Afro-Guyanese statesman and progenitor of “co-operative socialism” in Guyana.
Pro-natalist policies are great, but declining birth rates are here to stay
If there is one thing that sends fear and trembling through a country’s political elite these days, it’s news that population growth is slowing…