Topic > WPA in Guyana - 929

What the WPA, and the previous actions of its constituents together with other sectors in Guyana, have achieved, has been the visible representation of multiracialism in its basis, in its importance, in its context. of Guyana, characterized by prominent black leaders who primarily opposed the black regime and the commitment of sections of Indo-Guyanese India moving towards, was at least at the non-electoral level. note that none of this multiracial enthusiasm was put to the test at the polls, which in 1974 were far from the WPA's radar. But how far did the new policy go? How was it possible to fight for a democratic society amid the confusion of the outside world, where the Soviet Union and its allies, while supporting liberation movements around the world, did not support local struggles for democracy; and play realpolitk with small countries? At that time the Guyanese state, with its critical role in the Non-Aligned Movement, its anti-apartheid stance and growing ties with socialist countries, had also benefited from Guyana's support from most of the Marxist PPP's allies -Opposition Leninist. as a state. While the PPP was trapped in this quagmire, the WPA managed to avoid some of the pitfalls of this democracy-versus-socialism conundrum. He achieved this goal by focusing on local issues, vigorously defending the democratic struggle and his programmatic-ideological positions that fused Marxism with democratic ideals, what is commonly considered the "new left". Perhaps this contradiction led a vigilant middle-class Guyanese lawyer to ask a provocative question at the height of the PNC's crackdown on the WPA and the PPP, in a context in which all three contenders were self-identified leftists... halfway of the sheet... at the command of the pressure group The WPA at that time established a clear focus on the urgent overthrow of the state and social revolution, but there was little active consideration of women's rights inside and outside the 'organization. When press releases and leaflets emerged that talked about gender equality despite obviously having good intentions, they were, in a general sense, "clichés" of parties of this type and no fundamental and revolutionary change was offered on the issue of gender and/or gender. women's rights. This negligence would later resurface to haunt the now, for all intents and purposes, defunct WPA. press release and in Dayclean. Women's fundamental concerns have not been addressed holistically.