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FREDDOMWAYS
FIRST QUARTER 1968

plan X13. This terrorist gang was later responsible for the loss of many lives and for the destruction of government property by dynamite.
5. The failure of the Commissioner of Police to bring to the notice of myself (as Premier) and the PPP Minister of Home Affairs two documents, compiled in August and September of 1963 by the Security Branch, entitled “Research Paper on the PNC Terrorist Organization,” which named 50 persons including top-ranking PNC leaders and activists and an American agent, J. O’Keefe, of whom twenty-five were recommended for prosecution but were never charged.
6. The order made through emergency regulations by the Governor, Sir Richard Luyt, suppressing the “Research Paper on the PNC Terrorist Organization,” and making its possession a criminal offense subject to a fine £500* and/or six months imprisonment.
7. The continuous police harassment and searches of PPP leaders and activists, including the Minister of Natural Resources, also detention of PPP legislators by the Governor to prevent parliament from functioning—all aimed at creating the impression abroad that the PPP was responsible for the disturbances and riots.
8. The Governor’s intervention in the 1964 election, and the changing of electoral procedure permitting extensive use of proxy voting, which was highly criticized by the Commonwealth Team of Observers.

race, class and liberation

Colonialists and imperialists never had any scruples about creating divisions and even committing murder if these means were necessary for the maintenance of the political rule and economic domination. The British in their long history of Empire were adept at divide-and-rule—one religion against another, one tribe against another, one race against another.
“In Guyana, racism and anti-communism have been the main weapons used by Anglo-American imperialism to ‘contain’ and destroy the Guyana liberation movement.
“In 1953, our Constitution was suspended and the PPP Government was forcibly expelled from office on the excuse that it was setting up a one-Party, Communist state. Nearly a decade later, at the October 1963 independence conference, Duncan Sandys refused to
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°G$1 = 4 shillings, 2 pence sterling = U.S. $0.60.