Dear Editor
DAVID Hinds’ sectarian politics is part of the political culture of our country and he needs to understand that his personal style has no place in a coalition.
I am quite unhappy about the way in which he and Lewis were removed as writers of the publicly owned Guyana Chronicle, but he and Lewis are mere critics of the coalition and have done very little, but criticising the government.

As petty bourgeois democrats, they criticise for the sake of it within a newspaper controlled by the state. They have this wild illusion that no action will be taken against them. It shows how naive they are — believing that they use the newspaper as their organ of propaganda and agitation.

This calls into question their limited knowledge of the state as an organ of oppression by the incumbent ruling class. And it follows on from that mindset that they expect to use this organ as a mobilising force. They live in a world of fancifulness.

David Hinds, in particular, has never understood how to operate within a broad-based coalition in the Guyanese context. While he accepts that Guyanese vote along racial lines, he has done nothing, fundamentally, to address the racial divide. David Hinds, the de facto leader of his WPA group, did not include two prominent Indian political activists, who are associates of the Rodneyite ideas in the last meeting of the APNU coalition, because they were not part of his clique.

The test for David Hinds’ politics lies in his inability to interact with activists and people of Indian descent. He is no different from Ravi Dev, who manages the pro-Jagdeo “Guyana Times”. Both of them claim to champion the cause of the respective racial group, but have no significant following for their ideology.

David Hinds uses the name of Walter Rodney, as a cover to promote his political views. But Hinds is far removed from the “racial unity” politics of Walter Rodney. Demerarawaves seems to revel in the politics of division promoted by David Hinds. This news site has not asked Hinds about the dismissal of 4000 sugar workers at the hands of Professor Clive Thomas. Why?

Regards
Jinnah Rahaman