The so-called Earth Rebellion of January 1973 was an event that stimulated multiracial hopes and united various opposition groups. The land rebellion on the sugar belt on the East Coast of Demerara was a key factor that stimulated the growth of cooperation between groups and individuals that ultimately shaped the WPA. Encouraged by ASCRIA and supported by Ratoon, IPRA and WPVP, the mass land occupation on the East Coast of Demerara in 1973 was multiracial in support and participation and further facilitated growing economic and social grouse cooperation. Given the broad multiracial support given to the land rebellion, a frightened state intervened with all its force and armed policemen stepped in to expel the squatters. The position taken by ASCRIA in calling for an uprising of the landless of all races has awakened public interest. It also brought villagers of distant races to fight together for land and against local and foreign oppressors. Subsequently, other political and civic groups and individuals, who had previously been wary of ASCRIA, were able to engage with the organization on these and other issues. The land rebellion came hand in hand with a deterioration of the internal situation and an increase in diplomatic and economic relations with third countries. world and socialist countries. The rigging* of the 1973 general elections, with the help of the Guyana army, further increased ethnic division and the deterioration of democracy. By 1974, the doctrine of supremacy became more distinguishable and included the elevation of the party above the state, strengthening the power held. by Prime Minister (later President) Forbes Burnham. One researcher dramatized Burnham's control of the state this way: As leader of the... center of the paper... here and in other parts of the Caribbean; the worsening economic conditions of the masses, cancerous corruption in government, political victimization and the denial of press freedom and academic freedom in Guyana. elections, violent political repression, worsening of the economic conditions of the masses, cancerous corruption and denial of academic and press freedom, as factors in its formation. The coalition also addressed regional and international concerns. He was committed to strengthening the unity of the Caribbean masses and identified himself everywhere with the suffering masses with the maxim that he fought for the "destruction of imperialism and its neocolonial systems and for the revolutionary unity of all subject and liberated peoples”.."