Georgetown : June 16th Guyana will observe the 63rd anniversary of Enmore Martyrs and a forum was held last evening to remember the struggle of the sugar workers and the working class..
President Bharrat Jagdeo reminded a large gathering that the late President
Dr. Cheddi Jagan’s struggle for the working class was influenced by 1948 incident where Rambarran, Lalabajee, Surujballi, Harry and Pooran were gunned down by the colonial police while joining several sugar workers in protest against the inhumane conditions on the estate and called for decent wages and salaries.
“It was not just a struggle between worker and employer as is often time the case in so many instances that we are accustomed to. That struggle took on an additional character because the planter class personified colonialism; the group that took our rights and dignities and held us in a position of second class citizens in our own country,” President Jagdeo said.
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