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Essential reading for anybody interested in decolonisation, neocolonialism and racial justice today comes recommended by MARJORIE MAYO
COMMON TOUCH: On the campaigning trail before the victorious 1992 election

The West on Trial: My fight for Guyana’s Freedom
By Cheddi Jagan
International Publishers £25

DECOLONISATION is such a topical issue, with so many implications for racial justice today. So this reprint could scarcely be more timely.

Writing on the eve of British Guiana’s independence – as Guyana – in 1966, Cheddi Jagan tells the story of his own involvement in the struggle – and the duplicitous shenanigans of successive British governments and their US allies.  

The British state was more sophisticated, in Jagan’s view, using divide and rule tactics to undermine progressive forces in their colonies. But the US was not short on determination when it came to dealing with the threat of socialist advance in the Caribbean.

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