When the PPP decided to proceed along its current course of political dominance, it did not know that it would lead it to having to deny important aspects of its “glorious struggle” against PNC authoritarianism, for which so many of its supporters have suffered. Even I, who never supported its Marxist/Leninist rhetoric, have harboured some admiration for the manner it has tried to deal with a difficult political context. How has it happened that now when the party is in government and should be proudly detailing its anti-dictatorial activities for posterity, it is forced to deny them?!
In my “The politics of money laundering: who will blink first?” (SN: 26/03/2014), I made three important points about the PPP/C, which, should they gain traction, can possibly give rise to a more effective opposition. When the fluff and very questionable reasoning contained in Mr Narindra Persaud’s “There is a fundamental difference between what obtained under the PNC and what exists now under the PPP/C” (SN: 18/04/2014), are removed, we come upon a most blatant attempt to rewrite history to counter those
