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ASRE had previously sought for partitioning Guyana into three sectors: one for Africans, one for East Indians, and one for a voluntarily mixed population, an approach that however failed to sufficiently gain traction. ASCRIA drew in additional supporters from the
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Indian People's Revolutionary Associates (IPRA). The two groups came out to form the core of the nascent multiethnic pro-democracy movement. In 1974 ASCRIA and IPRA joined forces with the Maoist
44: 35:. Dedicated to the revitalization of African culture in the Caribbean country, the organization was a significant political and economic factor in the early 1970s, the 84:, to attain the proper black awareness, active membership was estimated to exceed 2,000 in 1970. By 1971, the organization dominated African bauxite workers in the 214: 47:(ASRE). During the 1960s and until 1971, ASCRIA was an influential force in Guyana's post-independence politics, as both a competitor and an ally of 224: 104: 219: 229: 244: 239: 93: 52: 192: 112: 162: 234: 124: 56: 147:
Leo A. Despres (1975). "Ethnicity and resource competition in Guyanese society". In Leo A. Despres (ed.).
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The organization however broke ties with the PNC in 1971, mainly because on the issue of
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township. In this period, Kwayana served as a close advisor to Prime Minister
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Ethnicity and Resource Competition in Plural Societies
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Index

Afro-Guyanese
Guyana
independence from British rule
Pan-Africanist
Eusi Kwayana
African Society for Racial Equality
Forbes Burnham
People's National Congress
Working People's Alliance
Black separatist
League of Coloured Peoples
African studies
Georgetown
Mackenzie
Forbes Burnham
People's National Congress
government corruption
Moses Bhagwan
pan-Indian
Working People's Vanguard Party
Working People's Alliance


Ethnicity and Resource Competition in Plural Societies
Mouton Publishers
ISBN
90-279-7539-6


Ethno-politics and Power Sharing in Guyana: History and Discourse

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