(1979) - People's Power, No Dictator - Walter Rodney

Although Guyana originally gained its independence from the British colonizers in 1966, their systems still ran on the model of the bourgeois democratic system of Britain. This maintained societal hierarchies and the class system. Post-colonization, the dictator, Fordes Burnham, led the People's National Congress (PNC) Regime. The PNC was a covert dictatorship under the guise of democracy. Rodney goes on to call out the Guyanese people and their lack of advocacy and uprising against the PNC regime. He also highlights the PNC regime's covert takeover of the people, first by the news and then eventually nationalizing the radio. He calls on the need for racial unity and endorsement of the Working People's Alliance (WPA), which was his own political work, for an anti-racist and anti-imperialist future of Guyana.