Zahra Gordon

short words from The Morning After

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for some reason it just feels like a good time to share some quotes from Horace Campbell‘s foreword to Eusi Kwayana‘s The Morning After (2005). this is a book that belonged to my father. i’ve had it on my reading list for a while and put it my bag the other to read while on the bus because it was smaller than the other book i was reading. turned out there was some fitting information. will share more as i read more. The Morning After is generally about Guyanese politics, crime and ethnic divisions.

In both Jamaica and Trinidad, the levels of violence and murders have reached proportions that now approximate the period of enslavement when lives were dispensed with at will. Both societies have become enmeshed in the international capitalist trade associated with the drug business and the local accumulators are linked in the whole process of using guns, illicit dealings and wanton killings.  

It is not by accident that this wave of violence everywhere is occurring at precisely the moment when the international war on terrorism is being used to roll back the demands of oppressed peoples for a new mode of economic organisation.

There had been a debate within ASCRIA (political organization), whether it was the European planter or the Indian businessperson who was the enemy of the African people. It was agreed that the enemy was  the system of capitalism and while the Indians and Africans were rivals, there could be no revolution of one race in Guyana. 

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