By Colin A. Palmer
Informed by way of the 1st use of many British, united states, and Guyanese archival assets, Palmer's paintings info Jagan's upward push and fall, from his preliminary electoral victory within the spring of 1953 to the aftermath of the British-orchestrated coup d'etat that resulted in the suspension of the structure and the removing of Jagan's independence-minded management. Jagan's political odyssey continued--he was once reelected to the premiership in 1957--but in 1964 he fell out of energy back stressed from Guianese, British, and U.S. officers suspicious of Marxist impacts at the People's innovative get together, based in 1950 via Jagan and his activist spouse, Janet Rosenberg. yet Jagan's political lifestyles was once no longer over--after many years within the competition, he turned Guyana's president in 1992.
Subtly interpreting the particular function of Marxism in Caribbean anticolonial struggles and bringing the bigger tale of Caribbean colonialism into view, Palmer examines the usually malevolent roles performed by way of leaders at domestic and out of the country and indicates how violence, police corruption, political chicanery, racial politics, and terrible management not on time Guyana's independence until eventually 1966, scarring the physique politic within the process.
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