THE People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has expressed sadness at the passing of life-long revolutionary and internationalist, Una Mulzac. The party, in a statement earlier this week, said Ms Mulzac was a close friend of  former Guyanese President Mrs Janet Jagan.
In 1962, she came to the then British Guiana to work with the People’s Progressive Party. She wanted to make a contribution to the anti- colonial struggle.
The PPP said her main task was to develop the party’s book shop, then known as the ‘Progressive Book Shop’, of which she later became the manager.
“That was a turbulent time in our country. She was manager of the Book Shop when a terrorist of the opposition PNC placed a bomb in the building,” the PPP recalled.
That bomb killed the young PYO stalwart Michael Forde. Ms Mulzac was also injured and had to be hospitalised. The PPP recalled that it was Ms Mulzac from her hospital bed who suggested that the name of the book shop be changed to ‘Michael Forde Book Shop’ in honouring the memory of Michael Forde.
Ms Mulzac returned to the US after independence in 1966 because she was refused citizenship by the PNC regime.
On returning to the US, she established a Book Shop in Harlem New York. She named her Book Shop ‘Liberation Book Store’.
She continued selling Progressive and Revolutionary Literature, and saw herself as an educator and her work was to raise the level of political consciousness of the working people of the US by providing literature that offered another view from that of the transnational media.
Ms Mulzac was the daughter of Mr Hugh N. Mulzac, the first Black person to command a ship in the United States. He too was a socialist and was investigated by the Congren – House Committee on UN – America Activities in 1960 because of his political belief.
Una Mulzac was born on April 19, 1923 and passed away on January 21, 2012. The PPP extends sympathy to the family of Cde Mulzac, a true internationalist.