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U.S.A. IN SOUTH AMERICA                             JAGAN

  Clearly social and economic progress for Guyana, the Caribbean, Latin America and other third world countries depends on a scientific approach to economic planning and the adoption of a revolutionary policy and program which should include:
  1. Nationalization of the commanding heights of the economy-all foreign owned factories, mines, plantations, banks, and insurance, electricity, telephone and telegraph companies;
  2. Drastic land reform;
  3. Rigid system of exchange and price controls;
  4. Simultaneous expansion of industry and agriculture in the public and cooperative sectors; and
  5. Genuine democracy and involvement of the masses at all levels.
  Naturally, such a program, already embarked upon by some third world countries in Africa and Asia, has been and will be opposed by the imperialists and neocolonialists, who are wedded to the free enterprise system, to the Truman Doctrine of "containment," and to the Johnson Doctrine od "liberation" and "massive intervention."
  Whenever the free enterprise, capitalist system is threatened, the U.S. government will use the chosen instrument of its foreign policy, the C.I.A, for covert subversion and violence. And when it becomes necessary, marines will overtly land as in the Dominican Republic and Vietnam.
  To the American ruling class and the industrial-military complex, political science has been reduced from ballots to bullets, to simple gangsterism.

  It is incumbent on all revolutionary movements to develop a disciplined, ideologically-sound party, to wage a many-sided struggle and to be prepared t meet imperialist force with revolutionary force.
  In Guyana, the working class is fighting in defense of its vital interests. In 1965, there was a record-breaking 146 industrial strikes. In 1956, the total was 172; and up to the end of April 1967, the number was already 57.
  The government's answer to the wave of industrial strikes and seething discontent is threats and intimidation. It had already passed a National Security Act, under which anyone can be restricted or detained indefinitely without trial. Now it is proposing to enact antistrike legislation in the form of what was to be compulsory, but now voluntary,  arbitration.
  It is subverting the Constitution by undermining and bypassing such independent constitutional bodies as the Public Service Com-

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