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U.S.A IN SOUTH AMERICA JAGAN
cessive five-year period, there was a progressive decline in per capita national income-7 per cent for 1950-55; 3.7 per cent for 1955-60; 3 per cent for 1960-65.
Jamaica, in common with other British Commonwealth countries, is plagued with growing tensions and problems, chief among which are unemployment, inequality of income and balance-of-payments deficits.
Commenting on the grave unemployment situation in Trinidad, the Trinidad Guardian on August 9, 1967, wrote:
"One hundred jobs in Canada. The possibility of three hundred in Puerto Rico. A steady trickle of domestics to North America. A fairly large flow of skilled and professional peoples to Canada. These are the avenues being used or explored in a society where the rate of unemployment may not be the worst in the world, but is nonetheless unbearable." Clearly, the Guyana model of economic planning and development is no model for Africa or for any other third world area or country. There will be no real progress as long as Guyana is tied to fiscal, trade and economic policies dictated by Washington and big business at home and abroad. Indeed, conditions will inevitably worsen with growing disillusionment, dissatisfaction and frustration. "Lucian," a strong government supporter, writing in the Sunday Graphic of July 16, 1967, said:
"Many people - Guyanese and non-Guyanese - are disgusted with the present state of affairs in this country. Some are packing up to leave out of sheer frustration, while others are dejected from unbearable disgust."

ideological struggle
As conditions deteriorate, Guyanese and West Indians are being told by the apologists and ideologues for imperialism and neocolonialism that the cause of their suffering lies in themselves; that they are inefficient and unproductive; that they have not acquired enough skills; that capital is short, and in the words of Prime Minister, L.F.S. Burnham, that they must "eat less, sleep less and work harder"; that they must curb their excessive birth rate; that they must come together in larger groupings because their population is too small to provide an adequate internal market.
The objectives of the imperialists are threefold; to cast blame on the working class for the failures of the ruling capitalist class; to

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