If the APNU/AFC coalition can seek succour in the failed Jagan/Burnham attempt to form a national movement, it would well be reminded that it also has much in common with the 1950s alliance between Forbes Burnham and Dr. J. P Lachmansingh, which sought to wrench the Jaganite/PPP from office but was a spectacular failure. This latter alliance rested upon a similar belief about the place of race in Guyanese politics; had similar aspirations for bringing the races together; had a different ideological orientation but foundered on the same issue that threatens
