Summaries
This is a
listing of articles written by Dr. Jagan that are housed at the
Cheddi Jagan Research Centre in Georgetown, Guyana. Some of these
articles can be found on this website. More summaries will be added
in the near future.
1942-1960
1961-1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1970-1979
1942-1960
(Date = year/month/day)
id#
0001
title
Letter to Dr. Orrin Dummett
year written 1942/09/04
place delivered Illinois,
USA
medium
letter
summary
Dr. Jagan's first known political
writing. Through a personal letter to a friend written in 1942, it
shows Cheddi Jagan during his student years in Chicago,
already imbued with progressive and forward- looking ideas. It also
showed his interest in a wide
range of subjects. In this letter he stood on the side of radical
equality; opposed war but supported
liberation; commented on the Indian
people's struggle under Gandhi and
the labour struggles in Jamaica. Most
interestingly, Cheddi Jagan was already
considering what should be done;
practical steps that could be taken in the
face of problems/issues which he
identified therein.
id#
0002
title
The Right to Vote
year written
1944/08/06
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
printed in "Labour Advocate"
summary
Dr. Jagan talks about the fact
that the people of British Guiana
do not have the right to vote unless they meet the
property qualifications, in the form of
landed property, land tenure-rent or income. He goes on to state
that true democracy depends on a
broader universal suffrage.
id#
0003
title
The Need for Consumers' Cooperatives (Contd)
year written
1954/06/02
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
printed in "Indian Opinion"
summary
Dr. Jagan explains that people
should organise into consumer
cooperatives to purchase supplies, to advertise
and to bargain for better wages and
living conditions.
id#
0004
title
The Cooperative Way
year written 1945/12
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
printed in "Indian Opinion"
summary
Dr. Jagan explains that the
philosophy of greed and
individualism must be replaced by cooperation for mutual
gain; that the wealth of society must be
justly and adequately distributed.
For British Guiana the call for independence and a well planned
industrial economy. Workers must
also organize themselves in consumers
cooperatives, which must be seen as only
a palliative and a transition period to independence. He states that
cooperative credit-banks or unions
can easily be organized, and if it
can be achieved in war time, why not in
peace time?
id#
0005
title
Wanted a Minimum Wage
year written 1946/06/30
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
printed in "Labour Advocate"
summary
Dr. Jagan compares the standard of
living in British Guiana and the difference in minimum wage between
British Guiana and the USA. He
urges workers and wage earners to
press their representatives in the Legislative Council to
call for a minimum wage law.
id#
0006
title
Letter
to Editor Daily Chronicle
year written 1946/07/06
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
printed in "Daily Chronicle"
summary
Dr. Jagan exposes the viewpoint
that consumerism will stimulate
the workers to work longer hours. He goes on to
explain the real earning power of workers
and ends by saying that only a
socialist control of the sugar industry will increase the standard
of living of the sugar workers.
id#
0007
title
In Defence of Working Class
year written 1946/07/17
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
printed in "Guiana Graphic"
summary
Dr. Jagan replies to an article in
the "Daily Chronicle" in which he
is made out to be a "Champion of a particular race
in the colony" - a move to divide
along racial lines. He explains
that his beliefs are in working class unity, not
along race but along class differences.
id#
0008
title
Reply to article
in Chronicle
year written 1946/07
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
handwritten notes
summary
Cheddi Jagan speaks on using money
from British Guiana's lottery to build sidewalks, instead of on
public-spiritless and charity.
id#
0009
title
Letter to Editor Daily Chronicle
year written 1946/08/15
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
printed in "Daily Chronicle"
summary
Dr. Jagan replies to an article
and agrees with the writer on the
point that salaries of trained personnel from overseas
puts a strain on British Guiana.
id#
0010
title
Capitalistic Power and Rehabilitation
year written 1946/08/18
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
printed in "New Outlook"
summary
Dr. Jagan writes about the
situation in there USA in the post
war years.
id#
0011
title
The
Recall
year written 1946/09/07
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
printed in "Indian Opinion"
summary
Dr. Jagan writes of the need for
the "Recall" system to be incorporated into the British Guiana
constitution, whereby an elected
official can be recalled if he does not
fulfil his obligations.
id#
0012
title
The Road to Serfdom
year written 1947/07/03
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
summary
Dr. Jagan speaks out in support of
strike action by the workers, and
explains the reasons for these strikes.
id#
0013
title
Notice in Legislative Council
year written 948/05/07
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
Cheddi Jagan's unofficial notices
given in the Legislative Council
on setting up a Committee to deal with problems n the sugar industry
in British Guiana, and how to raise
the wages of the sugar workers.
id#
0014
title
Memorandum on the Sugar Industry of British Guiana
(Venn Com)
year written 1948/08/01
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
summary
This paper was presented to the
Venn Commission in 1948. Dr. Jagan emphasizes the importance of the
Sugar Industry to the economy and
as a major employer. He addressed
comprehensively all aspects of the industry, including the living,
working and social conditions of sugar workers. Low wages, job and
tenure of land (housing) insecurity
and the drain of profits – going abroad.
A powerful representation to the Venn Commission by Dr. Jagan – the
voice of the exploited and downtrodden.
id#
0015
title
Debate in Legislative Council
year written 1948/12/16
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0016
title
Debate in Legislative Council
year written 1948/12/17
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0017
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written
1949/02/02
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0018
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1949/02/03
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0019
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/02/04
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0020
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1949/02/17
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0021
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1949/03/03
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0022
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1949/03/04
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0023
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/03/17
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0024
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/04/29
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0025
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1949/04/29
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0026
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1949/04/29
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0027
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/05/05
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0028
title
Trespass Notice
- May 20, 1949
year written 1949/05/20
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Court notice
summary
Trespass Notice given to Dr. Jagan
by Plantation Vesailles and Schoon Ord Limited for addressing
workers on their estates.
id#
0029
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/05/27
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0030
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/05/27
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0031
title
Letter to
Labour Research Board
year written 1949/05/01
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
letter
summary
Dr. Jagan, at the time a Member of
the Legislative Council and a
trade unionist writes the Labour Research Board
(England) to express his concern over
Trespass Notices served on him and
others and queried whether it is normal
for a Trade Union Leader and Legislative
Council Member (MP) to be so
subjected.
id#
0032
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/06/02
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0033
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1949/06/24
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0034
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/07/01
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0035
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/07/07
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0036
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/07/20
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0037
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/09/01
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0038
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/09/02
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0039
title
Debate in Legislative Council
year written 1949/09/07
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0040
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1949/09/09
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0041
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/09/14
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0042
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/09/16
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0043
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1949/09/22
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0044
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/09/22
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0045
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1949/09/23
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0046
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/10/06
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0047
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/10/07
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0048
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/10/13
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0049
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written
1949/10/28
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0050
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1949/11/03
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0051
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/11/09
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0052
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1949/11/10
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0053
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/11/10
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0054
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/11/11
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0055
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/11/25
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0056
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1949/12/01
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0057
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1949/12/08
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0058
title
Debate in
LegislativeCouncil
year written 1949/12/30
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0059
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1950/01/05
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0060
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1950/01/06
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0061
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1950/01/12
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0062
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1950/03/02
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0063
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1950/03/02
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0064
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1950/03/03
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0065
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1950/03/08
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0066
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1950/03/09
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0067
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1950/03/10
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0068
title
Debate in Legislative
Council
year written 1950/03/23
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0069
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written 1950/03/24
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Minutes of Legislative Council
summary
id#
0070
title
Misc. documents
by Cheddi Jagan in the 1950's
year written 1950's
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
summary
id#
0071
title
Notice of
Questions
year written 1952/09/27
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
summary
Dr. Cheddi Jagan questioned the
Government on 8 areas of concern
affecting citizens and the central administration.
id#
0072
title
Fascist
Tyranny Enters B.G
year written 1953/03/01
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
printed in Thunder Vol 4
-No 6
summary
An article in "Thunder" of March
1953, written about Dr. Jagan's
historic 6 hour speech in the Legislative Council
in
an attempt to filibuster and delay the passage of the
"Subversive Literature" Bill.
id#
0073
title
Press Conference
year written 1953/10/22
place delivered United
Kingdom
medium
press conference
summary
Dr. Jagan, accompanied by Forbes
Burnham attends a lengthy Press
Conference in England on October 22, 1953 and answered a number of
questions. The British tried to
corner Dr. Jagan into accepting that he was a
Marxist/Communist and thus detrimental to
the interests of British Guiana.
The questions were cunningly put and Dr.Jagan answered then
fearlessly and intelligently.
id#
0074
title
Statement to Press
year written 1953/10/22
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
press statement
summary
Dr. Jagan and Forbes Burnham
issued a Press Statement in response to the White Paper “British
Guiana Suspension of the
Constitution”. They exposed 26 paragraphs of the
Suspension Order as a mere excuse to oust
Dr. Jagan and the first working
class government which for 133 days had
done its best – though with limited
“power” performed creditably in
all spheres of government affairs, striving for
economic/social justice and democracy.
id#
0075
title
Western Democracy
is on Trial
year written 1953/11/01
place delivered United
Kingdom
medium
printed in Caribbean News -B.G.
Special Issue.
summary
Dr. Jagan just deposed as head of
the PPP government in October
1953, directs his thoughts to the British public,
answering the British Governments charges
and excuses for the suspension of the Constitution in British Guiana
. He challenges the charges of
communism for removing the govt.
and retorts that it is democracy which is on trial, not
communism.
id#
0076
title
Bitter Sugar -
1953-1954
year written 1954
place delivered
British
Guiana
medium
booklet
summary
Dr. Jagan’s booklet, Bitter
Sugar vividly brought to bare
the blood, sweat and tears, expectations and yearnings of
sugar workers who have been exploited
since King Sugar was Guiana and
Guiana, King Sugar. The British
brutishness and brutality over the decades against workers, urged
Dr. Jagan to champion their cause. That
sugar
is bitter for the working class and sweet only for the capitalists
is a candid analysis, convincingly etched by
Dr. Jagan – truly a champion of the
working class. He identified the rank exploitation and hunger,
squalor and
hopelessness among the labourers in the
sugar industry.
id#
0077
title
Dr. Jagan's Defence in
Court - 1954
year written 1954/04/22
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
speech
summary
Dr. Jagan's defence before the
Magistrate, Guy Sharples in a
British Guiana court on April 4, 1954 - he was sentenced
to 6 months with hard labour. He used the
occasion to expose how the courts
conduct justice under the dictates of the oppressor. He accused the
capitalists /fascists of willingly
taking away not only the rights oft the Guianese
people,
but all over the world, too.
id#
0078
title
What Happened in
British Guiana (1954)
year written 1954
place delivered United
Kingdom,
medium
booklet
summary
id#
0079
title
Death to Imperialism - (a poem written while in prison)
year written 1954
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Poem handwritten in prison
summary
A handwritten poem by Cheddi Jagan
written on toilet paper and smuggled out while serving a 6 month
sentence in prison.
id#
0080
title
Notes from Prison (1954)
year written 1954
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
notes handwritten in prison
summary
A collection of handwritten notes
made by Cheddi Jagan on toilet paper and smuggled
out while serving a 6 month sentence in
prison. These notes were taken
from whatever books were available in the
prison library and from magazines
smuggled in, from outside.
id#
0081
title
Waddington
Constitution Exposed
year written 1952/01/18
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Booklet
summary
id#
0082
title
Is Imperialism
Dead? -April 1953
year written 1953/04/01
place delivered British
Guiana
medium
Booklet
summary
id#
0083
title
Celebration
Farce
year written
1954
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
notes handwritten in prison
summary
id#
0084
title
British Lion
Skinned
year written
1954
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
notes handwritten in prison
summary
id#
0085
title
Prisoners Walk
Out
year written
1954
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
notes handwritten in prison
summary
id#
0086
title
Union Busting
year written
1954
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
notes handwritten in prison
summary
id#
0087
title
Mother Sucks Children
year written
1954
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
notes handwritten in prison
summary
id#
0088
title
Poem
year written
1954
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
notes handwritten in prison
summary
id#
0089
title
How to brush
your teeth
year written
1954?
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
article
summary
id#
0090
title
year written
1955/01/01
place delivered
medium
printed in African & Colonial World
summary
id#
0091
title
Re. Sydney King
year written
1955/04/19
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
Letter to Crown Solicitor
summary
Letter written to Financial
Secretary re. Indebtedness by Sydney King to the British Guiana
Government.
id#
0092
title
Letter - May 23,
1956
year written
1956/05/23
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
Letter
summary
id#
0093
title
Towards
Independence
year written
1958/06/05
place delivered
medium
summary
id#
0094
title
Meeting with
Essiquibo Rice Farmers
year written
1958/06/28
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
Statement
summary
id#
0095
title
Broadcast on Dispute in
Sugar Industry
year written
1959/03/28
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
Radio broadcast
summary
id#
0096
title
Address to
Canada's Trade Mission
year written
1958?
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
Speech
summary
As Minister of Trade and Industry
in the PPP 1957-61 government, Dr.
Jagan addressed the Canadian Trade Mission at the
Georgetown Chamber of Commerce. He
urged closer links with Canada. He
referred to the trade balance between the two countries - British
Guiana exporting bauxite to Canada
- and expressed the need to
industrialise British Guiana's economy . He expressed
interest in an alumina plant, flour mill,
fruit cannery glass and cement
factories and the generous concessions being
offered by the Guiana government.
id#
0097
title
Dr.
Jagan's Open Letter to Peter D'Aguiar
year written
1960/10/15
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
printed in Daily Argosy
summary
Dr. Jagan answers United Force (UF)
leader Peter D'Aguiar's letter to the Daily Argosy
concerning the ideologies of the 3 main parties, the PPP, PNC and UF.
He explains that the PPP is not a Marxist party but it stands for
independence and a planned economy. He challenges D'Aguiar's policy
of "economic dynamism" which he says is similar to that of the PNC
which advocates foreign capital and the free enterprise system as
the solutions to societies ills.
id#
0098
title
Interview by
Rickey Singh
year written
1960/12/31
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
Interview, press conference
summary
Dr. Jagan answers question put to
him at a press conference by Rickey
Singh on the question of Federation, the Rice
Marketing Board , Independence and
anti-communism.
id#
0099
title
Radio
Broadcast by
Minister of Trade and Industry
year written
1960/09/03
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
Radio broadcast
summary
Dr. Jagan addressed the nation on
air on his very successful visits to the UK, USA, Cuba and
Venezuela. He held talks and sought
financial loans on hydro project, timber,
bauxite, electricity, mining laws and pulp
and paper ventures as well as establishing a Central Bank. Export of
rice and paddy, timber and economic
cooperation were realised. He
represented cane farmers for accommodation to
grow more canes as their Caribbean
counterparts. Dr. Jagan also
had discussions with Guyanese students and workers
abroad.
id#
0100
title
Press Conference
- December 10, 1960
year written
1960/12/10
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
Press conference
summary
Dr. Jagan was interviewed on the
state of rice milling operations by
the two Central Mills at Anna Regina and
Mahaicony. He addressed the issues of the
grading panel
and the need to provide quality rice for
export markets and urged farmers to
make the rice company operations
economically viable.
id#
0101
title
Petition to the
United Nations
year written
1960
place delivered
medium
Petition
summary
Dr. Jagan petitioned the UN General
Assembly on the urgency to grant
independence to British Guiana. He
substantiated his call by enumerating 45 points on the
economic, social, physical and current
political yoke of foreign, colonial
domination to fulfill the UN’s
declaration/covenants and aspirations of the Guianese
id#
0102
title
Debate in
Legislative Council
year written
1948/04/22
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
Legislative Council
summary
Dr. Jagan emphasized the need for
Consumer Cooperative Stores as a
perquisite to various other types of cooperatives.
These are small community based bodies and
served the people more effectively.
Dr. Jagan drew attention to rapid progress
and growth of
such bodies abroad. The motion was passed
in the Council.
id#
0103
title
Motion by Dr. Jagan at
Caribbean Conference
year written
1950
place delivered
Venezuela
medium
speech
summary
Dr. Jagan moved a motion at
a Conference in Caracas to have member States of the West Indies
Conference wherever necessary to grant the Right to Self
determination a la Atlantic Character on the Declaration of Human
Rights.
id#
0104
title
Press Statement
- Nov 1, 1951
year written
1951/11/01
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
Press Statement
summary
Dr. Jagan issued a Press Statement
on certain formal changes
recommended by the British Guiana Constitution
Commission. He exposed the devious ‘checks
and balances’ put to perpetuate the
old order and especially the powers of the Governor and his 6
elected “puppet” ministers. The
people will be further exploited and the
institution will not permit
any solution or alleviation of the
pressing social and economic problems on them. Dr.
Jagan identified the same experience of
other parts of the Colonial Empire
for the dollar earning raw materials, food
and mineral resources – eg. Malaya,
Africa, British Guiana. PPP opposed
the new constitution and planned to campaign vigorously countrywide
for immediate independence and self-government.
id#
0105
title
Freedom of
Speech, Assembly & Association
year written
1950's
place delivered
medium
summary
Dr. Jagan gave a critique to the
formal espousal and practice of the Freedom of Speech, Press,
Assembly and Association by the
bourgeois, capitalist ruling class the
world over. He brought British Guiana into
focus also with the various
capitalist “class practices” from a very
brilliant and intellectual working class
position and conviction, Dr. Jagan
compared the Capitalist and
Socialist/ Communist modes and asked “which is the
better of the two systems – the capitalist
– imperialist -fascist or the socialist-communist?” A highly
theoretical
and scientific analysis, simply
illustrated.
id#
0106
title
The Truth about
Guiana
year written
1953/11
place delivered
Medium
summary
Dr. Cheddi Jagan described how his
popular People’s Progressive Party
and Government was dislodged from
carrying out wide ranging developments in the social and economic
sectors of British Guiana. Those initial
programme changes were meant and indeed
began to impact positively on the
working peoples. Though with very
limited scope the intention of the mandate from the working class
and others of 18 out of 24 seats signalled to the
British and local ruling class the nature
of the PPP and its government.
Excuse of a “Communist Plot” had to be found thus the Suspension of
the Constitution – October 9, 1953.
Dr. Jagan urged all like-minded people to rally together for the
preservation of democracy in British Guiana.
id#
0107
title
Allied Labour
News Report
year written
1953/10/21
place delivered
USA
medium
Allied Labour News
summary
Dr. Jagan disclosed to Allied
Labour News prior to his departure for England to protest to the
Tory Government, the ousting of his popularly elected government and
Suspension of the British Guiana
Constitution. He detailed the
manoeuvres of the British before and after his
government assumed office and the
several initiatives made to
move the country and people forward to independence.
Even the warped British Guiana
Constitution was suspended to
prevent democracy and peoples development
and working class aspirations. Dr. Jagan
described it as “democracy on
trial”.
id#
0108
title
Defiance
Campaign Opens in Guiana by Janet Jagan
year written
1954
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
summary
Dr. Cheddi Jagan resisted the
Governor’s Order on April 3,1954 to visit his dental clinics and
comrades on the ECD after
his application was turned down. Himself and 12
others were arrested. The following day
Janet Jagan, Martin Carter and Rory
Westmass were also arrested. Dr. Jagan
defiantly expressed his fearlessness for
prison or to comply with any
restrictions of his freedom and to move out of Georgetown. He was
jailed for 6 months with hard labour
like any common prisoner. His resolve not
to yield to pressure or fear of
imprisonment made him the first political leader in British Guiana
to use voluntary imprisonment as a
form of protest and defiance against the cruel and double
standards of the British.
id#
0109
title
Two Tactics -
The Way Backward
year written
1955
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
summary
Two Tactics – The Way Forward. This
article exposed the intention of the imperialist and their local
agents to weaken or split the
Party. A united PPP cannot be defeated
at any general elections. The
people must be bribed from the Treasury of Her Majesty via “gifts”
and loans to lure them away from
supporting the PPP in its fight against
imperialism. “Divide and Rule” is another
alternative to divide the PPP into
“extremists” communists and the "democratic” socialists. The Party
leadership correctly analysed
intentions of the imperialists and employed the
corresponding tactics to avoid
fragmentation or total destruction
of the party. It was a time to purify the Party’s
leadership and to remain a cohesive force.
id#
0110
title
Left
Deviationism, Extremism and Opportunism
year written
1956
place delivered
medium
summary
Dr. Jagan warned against the
dangers of Right and Left
deviationism and opportunism. He beckoned a call for an analysis and
an exposure and correction of incorrect
attitudes and behaviourisms if necessary
if the PPP as leader of the independent movement is to lead the
struggle for independence successfully.
The picketing by Cdes. Westmaas and Martin
Carter brought to bare a number of
anomalies – failing to observe a
Party Executive Committee decision, causing adverse comments
not befitting the Party as Marxist, placing the
Peace Committee above the Party, portrayed
a semblance of blame of difference
in opinions of the Party, leadership. Dr.
Jagan reminded of the need to condition
our behaviour in keeping with the
political understanding of the masses. Dr. Jagan adverted to the
need to have the coming together of all sections of the community to
support the left line. Such
committees are led by non-communists, parsons,
pacifists, etc unlike our present Peace
Committee which is dominated by the
left and resembling a communist party.
id#
0111
title
Letter to Editor
year written
1956/05/17
place delivered
medium
Letter
summary
Dr. Jagan wrote that Mr. Raatgever
seemed confused; that while he found “no fault” in the
British Guiana Constitution and at the same time
British Guiana under the present constitution could be
committed to federation which he vigorously opposes. Dr.
Jagan suggested
instead, a referendum by the direct
vote that was done in Malta and Togoland on integration
with Britain and the Gold Coast.
id#
0112
title
Letter
year written
1956/07/05
place delivered
medium
Letter
summary
Dr. Jagan wrote of a mass meeting
at the Town Hall on Resolutions dealing with the entire
operations of the Rice Marketing Board. The Resolution
requested the Governor
to grant an interview with Dr.
Jagan and 9 others to have
full discussions on 5 areas of
concern of the Rice Industry and Rice Marketing Board. Also, an
appeal for financial assistance to have similar meetings in
different parts of the country in support of the rice
industry and democratic control.
id#
0113
title
The Suez Canal Issue
year written
1956/08/18
place delivered
medium
summary
Dr. Jagan addressed this issue in
the Guiana Graphic of 18/8/56 and clearly identified the double
standards of the British Government and its
colonialist’s policy. When
suited to Britain’s interest they
supported that the Canal should be exclusively under the
control of any of its puppet government. But now that
Egypt has no foreign army or colonialist policy, Britain
and the West want international control. Dr. Jagan
cited the logic that if internationalization of a major
waterway is good in principle then the same should also
be good for the Panama Canal, Kill Canal (Germany),
Straits of Gibraltar, Dardanelles.
President Nasser would be in order legally to nationalize the Canal, for which he is willing
to offer compensation. Britain, by 1928 has already been
paid back eight times over and with reserves of over 40
million by 1954.
id#
0114
title
The British Road to Self Government
year written
1956?
place delivered
medium
summary
Dr. Jagan exposed the policy of
convenience and expediency of successive British
Governments which stated that “it is the declared policy of Her
Majority’s Government to lead the colonial
peoples to self government as quickly as possibly”. The freedoms won
by colonial peoples in India, Pakistan
and elsewhere where not a “voluntary abdication” and “gift of
freedom”. They came out of consistent popular
struggles. The Guyana scenario was different.
“Constitutional advance” by the British Government “was a hopeless
waste of time and money” since all power was with the
Colonial Office and the Governor. The Period of
Marking Time by the Robertson Commission and departure
from the Waddington Constitution and control of the Legislature
caused great frustration among the greater
sections of the Guianese people. The puppetry and farce
perpetrated by the British via “constitutions” only meant a
delay of independence to British Guiana and maintain its own
“self government”.
id#
0115
title
Letter Re. Sydney King
year written
1957/03
place delivered
medium
Letter
summary
Sydney King – only 2 months ago at
a Bourda Green Meeting described
Burnham, a traitor and Jagan, a hero.
Now, he has moved from a most
extreme dramatic communist to a home grown intellectual/variety.
King moved from one extreme to another. Dr. Jagan questioned what
will he be next. Dr. Jagan described as one
who believed in democratic socialism and that
socialism can be built via parliamentary means and set clear the
opposite views and views of him by Burnham and others
who Sydney King now embraced. The letter by King is
instructive and riddled with the peddled vagaries
by his newly found enclave and subjectively discussed a number of disconnected issues cunningly and
subtly put with
intentions to discredit and/or belittle Dr. Jagan.
id#
0116
title
Why the PPP was
removed from Government
year written
1957
place delivered
medium
Interview
summary
This exclusive interview in 1957
with Dr. Jagan addressed a number
of issues: 1. Why was the PPP Government removed from office
in 1953?
2.
Nature of the Government in British Guiana.
3.
How does 1957 Constitution composed to that of
1953?
4.
Cause for the split in the PPP and its effect on the Independence
Movement.
5. Amount of seats PPP
expects to win in August 1957 Elections.
6. How Britain granted
independence to Ghana and not British Guiana in keeping with its
declared policies on independence?
7. Position of the Trade
Union Movement.
8. Social and Economic
Situation in Guiana.
9. Guianese towards West
Indian Federation.
10. UN and Guiana’s
problems for independence. 11. Chances for early
independence.
He elucidated objectively on the
attitude of Britain vis-à-vis thwarting the efforts of the
PPP for independence and exposed various “constitutional
bottlenecks” .
The sand dancing of the Trade Union Movement (TUM) and
sell-out to anti-working class pursuits. Dr. Jagan
made clear the position of the PPP on the social and economic
situation, West Indian Federation, and difficulty
to have the UN deliberate on British Guiana and the half-free
half-slave constitutional tricks and manipulation of the
colonialists.
id#
0117
title
Answers on 1957 Elections
year written
1957
place delivered
medium
summary
Dr. Jagan replied to 6 questions on
the way forward should the PPP be asked to form the new
government. He dealt with the possibility of bringing
others on board, working with the new constitution and controversies
that needed the understanding of the
implications with West Indian Federation and advocated closer cooperation and
goodwill redounding to the greater good of the Caribbean.
id#
0118
title
Letter to Richard Ishmael
year written
1957/06/28
place delivered
medium
Letter
summary
With the impending split in the PPP
and the implicit partisan posturing
of Richard Ishmael as a mediator, Dr.
Jagan refused him a response since he has
gone into the
public print media. Dr. Jagan clarified
party democracy to which he
subscribed and not as a dictator. He examined all
possibilities to avoid any split and
racial polarization and therefore,
his party’s Executive, was also not unwilling to meet to discuss
save under neutral auspices.
id#
0119
title
Letter to Editor Guiana
Graphic
year written
1957/07/04
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
Letter
summary
Dr. Jagan writes the Editor of
Guiana Graphic to correct misrepresentations and false opinions of
what he is reported to have said at
a public meeting. Whether in the bauxite or sugar industries, Dr.
Jagan pointed to the huge profits obtained on capital invested. To
pursue any industrial policy and
finance any industrial development
programme, Guiana may have to embark on specifics in
favour of a mixed economy with socialist
orientation aimed at the
development of British Guiana.
id#
0120
title
Broadcast on Cooperatives
year written
1957
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
broadcast on radio
summary
Dr. Jagan was asked by the Credit
Union to give the first broadcast
in a series of programmes. Cooperation is
democracy and cooperatives enable a people
to control the means of production and distribution in their own
interests. He brought out the creativeness of cooperatives
as the harbinger of success, the total
interests of the workers – “the
economies of the brotherhood of man”.
id#
0121
title
Speeches of Dr.
Jagan
year written
1957
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
booklet
summary
(1) Dr. Jagan pledged his party’s
support and cooperation for the
appointment of Sir Eustace Wolford as Speaker of
the Legislative Council. (2) Dr. Jagan
congratulated self-
helpers for establishing a
community club. He lauded the effort and advocated more such
involvement in other areas so that people can come to enjoy their
holidays and forging healthy life-styles through sports and similar
recreational activities. (3) Dr.
Jagan underscored the wide scope
covered
by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and
pledged his government’s full support to
it. He encouraged greater areas for industrial development and
soliciting finances from
international agencies to successfully meet
the challenges of providing employment and
improving our standards of living. Import substitution can ensure
full employment and more to spend
on public investment. Dr. Jagan
emphasized the essence of cooperatives and signalled
governments willingness to foster this
spirit for greater accomplishment.
(4) Speaking at Bank Breweries, Dr. Jagan
lauded Guianese enterprise. He encouraged
others to come out of their shells and establish new industries for
which there is great scope. He
promised every help and encouragement so that there can be more such
local industries like Bank
Breweries. (5) Dr. Jagan spoke in
glowing terms of many benefits to be derived when people
are organized in cooperatives. Time
saving, money and a guarantee for
better living standards and efficiency at the
community level are rewards of cooperative
societies. He declared open the
Yarrow Creek Coop and pledged the
fullest support of his government.
id#
0122
title
Article
year written
1957
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
summary
Money ill spent on armament should
be directed towards solving the
problems of hunger, shelter, clothing and
unemployment. Guiana can benefit from
same. Problems of water control and loss of crops annually has to be
tackled. Development must keep pace with the growing Guianese
population or unemployment will be trebled
by 1966. One third of the
unemployed live in urban areas and
need wage employment. British Guiana needs about 2
million to harness its potential and
resources into several industries.
Guiana needs to provide about 2,000 houses per year over a 10 years
period. The current need is 30,000.
About $2.5 million is requested to build
an up-to-date hospital to replace
the existing facility in Georgetown.
There is great need for properly trained
teachers, and new school buildings
to avoid overcrowding. Money is needed to fund same. In the absence
of unemployment relief, the meagre social
assistance is inadequate. Dr. Jagan
concluded that Great Britain must
stop spending on arms and direct
financial resources to address the social and economic ills
of the Commonwealth, ours too, and avoid
the resort to rebellion.
id#
0123
title
Divali Greetings
year written
1957
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
summary
Dr. Jagan extends Divali Greetings
and recalls this event as a youth. He reflected on the philosophical
significance of good overcoming
evil, love over hatred and a purification of mind and heart. With
cooperation we can dispel the mist
and bring prosperity to Guiana.
id#
0124
title
MPCA
year written
1957
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
summary
The Man Power Citizens
Association (MPCA), sugar coated company advocated an increase in
the local selling price of sugar to increase in pay for
workers. In fact, Dr. Jagan pointed out
that when workers would have
received 30 cents per year they had to pay
$6.80 cents above what they were already
paying and subsidizing for other
local consumers. The point is, however, that sugar workers have not
enjoyed comparable increases as the
owners got from export prices of sugar.
id#
0125
title
The Sick Man
year written
1957?
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
summary
Dr. Jagan refers to US capitalist
economy as a sick man whether in
depression or recession the colonies which
supply their primary products are
affected. US investments in Canada
and the UK also have negative effects on
employment stability as in the smaller
economies of British Guiana and
Latin America. Solution to the phenomenon of
fluctuations in the capitalist economy can
be remedied if there is a free
access to east/west and vice versa markets of
all materials (between the capitalist west
and communist east).
id#
0126/0142
title
Why the USA will
not allow an independent PPP
year written
1957-1961?
place delivered
medium
summary
Dr. Jagan declared that
Independence will be won by
struggle, not by begging for it. He outlined why the
British would not grant independence under
him although there have been
guarantees that Guiana would pursue a policy similar to India within
the Commonwealth of
Nations. Communist or not, the imperialist
will block any country veering towards self determination to husband
its resources for the good of its
peoples. Same also applies as a macro policy the world over by the
imperialist. A good analysis of
imperialist tactics for self interests/preservation
and nations must fight for their political
independence.
id#
0127
title
Speech to
Georgetown Chamber of Commerce
year written
1957/10/29
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
Speech
summary
Dr. Jagan addressed the Georgetown
Chamber of Commerce
and stated that he was impressed by its
history and initiatives it had taken over the decades. Marketing
Guiana and its products, and overseeing drainage and irrigation
works, etc. He pledged his
government’s full support to
facilitate the Chambers’ multifaceted work in the new situation.
id#
0128
title
Wanted a Central Bank
year written
1957-1960
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
summary
This article highlights how
important and essential it is to
have a Central Bank in every country especially after the
attainment of political independence. This
facilitates the movement and control of finance to
carry out crucial developmental
works, etc and avoid the need to borrow from foreign banks.
id#
0129
title
1958 New Year
greetings
year written
1958/01
place delivered
medium
summary
The festive year end
season has come to and gone, but the plight of the workers and
farmers remain a grim reality Dr. Jagan remarked. British Guiana has
vast potentials and can be in the lead in the Caribbean and a par in
South America. Absence of development has led to a brain drain and
lack of self confidence. Hunger and poverty can be wiped out if less
is spent on defence and diverted to development.British
Guiana needs
political independence and to chart its course of development for
all round efficiency and economy in production. Politicians must
work with their hands and brains. A better and brighter Guiana with
opportunities for all is possible.
id#
0130
title
Letter to Editor
Guiana Graphic
year written
1958/02/13
place delivered
medium
Letter
summary
Dr. Jagan corrected the
impression/misrepresentation by the
Editor of Guiana Graphic that Guiana can develop
without outside capital. Difficulties
experienced to obtain foreign
capital presupposes that Guianese with a highly developed national
consciousness and cooperation by all
can achieve much despite difficulties.
id#
0131
title
On West Indian
Federation
year written
1958
place delivered
Trinidad
medium
Letter
summary
Dr. Jagan supports West Indian
Federation but laments pettiness
among some states. He pointed to the urgent task
of demanding collectively political
independence and a foreign policy
of friendship towards all. Racialism and
hooliganism should be condemned by all the
leaders and the growing support for
internal self-government now is needed.
id#
0132
title
May Day Message
year written
1958
place delivered
Trinidad
medium
Letter
summary
Dr. Jagan sends May Day Greetings
to the American people. Your
example has inspired us and we look forward
to your support of your cherished right to
all men to be free. For Guiana
after long agitation, it is a public holiday for
the first time.
id#
0133
title
Draft
year written
1958
place delivered
medium
summary
This article put in true
perspective Dr. Jagan’s statement on the PPP mission to London. He
did not quibble with words, but
represent what would have been in the best interest of the Guianese
people regardless of whether loans
to Guiana came from Britain or the Swiss Bank to
develop Guiana. The Editor’s contention
therefore laps that of the colonialists. So what happens to Guiana
between now (1958) and the time it
becomes free, Dr. Jagan asked.
id#
0134
title
Message to
Clarion
year written
1958?
place delivered
British Guiana
medium
summary
Dr. Jagan congratulated the
Principal of Skeldon High School
for affording Secondary education to Upper Corentyne District. He
observed the inadequacies of public
education and pointed to a people’s
education to help one to understand the world in which he lives so
that he can positively interact and
make it a better place.
Letter from J.W Chinapen –
educationist/poet writes to
students. He glorified the wonders of nature and urged
them to find time away from their books to
discover and to grasp its deeper meaning for only then can one grow
strong, wise and good.
id#
0135
title
Address on
opening of Yarrow Creek Co-op Society
year written
1957
place delivered
medium
Speech
summary
Dr. Jagan declared open the office
building of the Yarrow Creek
Cooperative thrift and credit society. He pointed to
difficulties in obtaining foreign
financial assistance and
urged attendees to organize
together and not to depend on
others. Much can be achieved by Coops to manage
community activities efficiently and Dr.
Jagan implored all to get involved to organize their economic
interests to which he is fully
supportive.
id#
0136
title
New Year
Broadcast
year written
1959/01
place delivered
medium
Broadcast
summary
Dr. Jagan in his 1959 New Year's
Message spoke of the widening gap
between the rich and the poor, the arms race, the need to end the
cold war and finance to be diverted to development. He referred to
British Guiana’s plight to obtain
finance for development and encouraged a re-assessment
and getting involved in community efforts to build roads, dams,
schools, etc Politicians and all others
must work for the all round development
and economic
progress for a better and brighter
Guiana.
id#
0137
title
Straight Talk
year written
1959
place delivered
medium
S/T
summary
Dr. Jagan corrects impressions by
the press and explains why preference was given to the
Lithographical Co. He pointed to
the need to have a government press.
id#
0138
title
Motion for
constitution committee
year written
1959/04/24
place delivered
medium
summary
Dr. Jagan submitted for
consideration in the new
constitution Committee a Bill of Rights to guarantee
freedom of the individual, arbitrary
arrest and detention, the press, speech, assembly and religion.
id#
0139
title
Comments on 1959
Development Programme
year written
1959
place delivered
medium
summary
The PPP explains its priorities in
economic development based on the
prevailing objective / given conditions. The
opposition and others who have narrow view
and
suspicion of government’s efforts to
create balanced development has no
scientific basis. The PPP’s emphasis
and development program aim to bring the
greatest good to all of Guiana and
not based on party interests.
id#
0140
title
Draft - Press
Release on Rice Development
year written
1958-1961
place delivered
British
Guiana
medium
press statement
summary
PPP Press Statement outlining
principled positions to promote the rice industry in the interest of
the farmers, millers and others who
depend on it. It advocated greater
freedom of the farmers, their involvement
in the R.D.C, a cut in administrative costs and improved public
relations.
id#
0141
title
Housing
Broadcast by Janet Jagan
year written
1957-61
place delivered
British
Guiana
medium
Broadcast
summary
The nation is informed that the
first 5 year Plan ended, but there
is still an acute shortage of housing. Finance is hard to obtain and the government welcomes help
from any
source to assist in the housing drive. Low
and middle income earners are beneficiaries of the 3200 houses
built. The
City Council and private persons are also encouraged to invest in the housing drive. Dr. Jagan
promised to put up a strong case in
London to push the local housing drive.
id#
0142/0126
title
For a truly Independent Guiana
- (same as 0126)
year written
1957-1961
place delivered
medium
summary
Same as # 0126
id#
0143
title
Liberty and
Struggle
year written
1958?
place delivered
medium
summary
Although leading world
personalities spoke appreciatively
of the Commonwealth of Nations which will play a vital role in the
struggle between tyranny and
freedom, the British Empire still expected
its influence and policy of subjection and exploitation. Colonies in
the West Indies, Guiana included
and Africa can attest to violations
by the British of freedoms recognized and practiced. PPP reinforced its belief in
the principles of the
Commonwealth as a free
association of independent peoples.
id#
0144
title
5 Minute
Interview
year written
1957-1961
place delivered
British
Guiana
medium
Interview
summary
Dr. Jagan’s interview by Mr.
Searwar on the glut in cassava production. They discussed price
stability and alternative uses of
the product as well as a possible substitute to
imported potatoes to furthering the
development of Guiana.
id#
0145
title
Interview on
Radio Demerara
year written
1960
place delivered
British
Guiana
medium
Interview
summary
In this Radio Interview Dr. Jagan
refuted claims that the delegates
for the Constitutional Talks in London are not truly representative. He gave lucid and
convincing figures
and reasons for the well balanced
delegation. Dr. Jagan also opined that colonies everywhere are
clamouring for their independence – Africa, Guiana and West Indies.
There is a wind of change and if independence is not granted, people will resort to armed struggles of
which the UN is aware.
id#
0146
title
Statement
Challenging Mr. Gajraj
year written
1958?
place delivered
British
Guiana
medium
Statement
summary
Dr. Jagan nailed the wild and
irresponsible statement by the
Burnhamites, Sugrim Singh and R.B Gajraj against the PPP and its members in the RPA as mere
electioneering tricks. Agreements
to sell in the West Indies and beyond markets clearly stipulated mutual terms
and are intact. The PPP and RPA are
of the same thinking – to obtain better
prices for the rice farmers and protect
guaranteed markets.
id#
0147
title
Aide-Memoire
year written
1959
place delivered
British
Guiana
medium
summary
Dr. Jagan explained the reason for
subsidising the price of cooking oil in favour of consumers and an
increase in export prices for copra
and raw oil. Government took
several measures to expand the coconut/copra/oil export and protect the farmers general interests.
id#
0148
title
The Blunt Facts about Banks
year written
1958?
place delivered
British
Guiana
medium
summary
The blunt facts about Banks Brewery
is that it progressively rakes in profits directly and indirectly
from the residue sales for stock
feed production. Shareholders and the government need to gain from
Banks, which should handle all its business as a single entity. A
better deal from the disgruntled will benefit Guiana and others
ultimately.
id#
0149
title
Press Conference
on Cooking Oil
year written
1966
place delivered
British
Guiana
medium
Press Conference
summary
Dr. Jagan addressed a Press
Conference to deal with all aspects
of cooking oil and its adequacy. He outlined imports of oil, copra,
etc and a continuation of oil control. Government policy encourages
farmers to expand coconut
cultivation and loans to be given to rehab old estates and create new ones. Pest control and research
on oil bearing plants are being
done.
id#
0150
title Financial
Aid to BG not Enough
year written
1959?
place delivered
British
Guiana
medium
Press statement
summary
id#
0151
title
PAC Bulletin - Nov 6, 1946
year written
1946/11/06
place delivered
British
Guiana
medium
Political Affairs Bulletin
summary
id#
0152
title
PAC Bulletin - March 13, 1949
year written
1949/03/13
place delivered
British
Guiana
medium
Political Affairs Bulletin
summary
id#
0153
title
Letter to Mr. MacDougall
year written
1956/02/14
place delivered
British
Guiana
medium
Letter
summary
id#
0154
title
Forward to Trinidad booklet
year written
1955
place delivered
British
Guiana
medium
Published in "For a more and better democracy for a democratic
constitution"
summary
id#
0155
title
PPP Manifesto Programme & Policy
year written
1957/08/03
place delivered
British
Guiana
medium
Booklet
summary
id#
0156
title
Constitution of the PPP - 1958
year written
1958/03/30
place delivered
British
Guiana
medium
Booklet
summary
id#
0157
title
Legislative Council Statement
year written
1958/08
place delivered
British
Guiana
medium
Press statement
summary
id#
0158
title
Letter to Newspaper Sept 25, 1959
year written
1959/09/25
place delivered
British
Guiana
medium
Letter
summary
id#
0159
title
PPP Study and Public Meetings
year written
1951/09/05
place delivered
British
Guiana
medium
Newsletter
summary
id#
0160
title
Trespass Notice - Newtown, Kitty - 1948
year written
1948/07/19
place delivered
British
Guiana
medium
Trespass notice
summary
id#
0161
title
We Harbour No Illusions - June 17, 1953
year written
1953/06/17
place delivered
British
Guiana
medium
Speech in House of Assembly
summary
id#
0162
title
Challenge of British
Guiana - mid-October 1953
year written
1953
place delivered
British
Guiana
medium
summary
id#
0163
title Election
Victory Speech by Dr. Jagan
year written
1957/08/14
place delivered
British
Guiana
medium
Radio Broadcast
summary
id#
0164
title
Letter in Service of Struggle for Freedom
year written
1959/12/30
place delivered
British
Guiana
medium
Letter
printed in Thunder, February 6, 1960
summary
The
following is the text of Dr. Cheddi Jagan’s letter to leaders of
political parties, trade unions and various organisations all over the
world. This letter solicited support for and solidarity with Guyana’s
fight for independence.
id#
0165
title
26th July Movement - Camaguey Indoctrination - April 1960
year written
1960/04
place delivered
British
Guiana
medium
Printed in Thunder, 30 April 1960
summary
id# 0166
title
Rumblings in Latin
America
year written
1960/06
place delivered
British
Guiana
medium
Printed in Thunder, June 4, 1960
summary
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