General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party, Donald Ramotar, has joined with all the progressive people in Guyana and further a field in commemorating the 30th anniversary of the assassination of the renowned Guyanese historian and revolutionary, Walter Rodney.“At the time of his death Rodney was only 38 years old…Yet his impact on African and Caribbean studies is highly recognised.”Walter Rodney (left) and Cheddi JaganRamotar said that upon Rodney’s return from Tanzania in 1974 he immediately joined the anti-dictatorial struggle.“In the process he exposed the nature of the regime and ridiculed the PNC dictatorship and its maximum leader…Rodney being an Afro-Guyanese blunted the PNC dictatorship racist weapon and showed how harmful the dictatorship was for the whole country and all its people.”He stressed that the PPP and Cheddi Jagan always enjoyed a close and fraternal relationship with Rodney.“Today we are proud of the fact that many of the things we struggled for together have been achieved. Democracy, freedom of expression and respect for human rights were highly regarded by Rodney and it is flourishing in Guyana today.”He said that the social advances in Education,http://www.cheapcustomjerseys.us.com/MLB/, Health, Housing and Water are all the fruits of the struggles that Rodney was prominently involved with.“In saluting this national hero we rededicate ourselves to the ideals we shared during those difficult but heroic times….Long live the memory of Walter Rodney.”Walter Rodney was born in Georgetown, Guyana on March 23, 1942. His was a working class family, his father was a tailor and his mother a seamstress.After attending primary school, he won an open exhibition scholarship to attend Queen’s College as one of the early working-class beneficiaries of concessions made in the field of education by the ruling class in Guyana to the new nationalism that gripped the country in the early 1950s.While at Queens College young Rodney excelled academically, as well as in the fields of athletics and debating.In 1960, he won an open scholarship to further his studies at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. He graduated with a first-class honours degree in history in 1963 and he won an open scholarship to the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. In 1966, at the age of 24 he was awarded a Ph.D. with honours in African History.He took up his first teaching appointment in Tanzania before returning to his alma mater,Wholesale China Jerseys Free Shpping, the University of the West Indies, in 1968. This was a period of great political activity in the Caribbean as the countries begun their post colonial journey. But it was the Black Power Movement that caught Walter’s imagination.By the summer of 1968 Rodney’s “groundings with the working poor of Jamaica had begun to attract the attention of the government. So,Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic, when he attended a Black Writers’ Conference in Montreal, Canada,Cheap NFL Jerseys, in October 1968, the Hugh Shearer-led Jamaican Labour Party Government banned him from re-entering the country.”This action sparked widespread riots and revolts in Kingston in which several people were killed and injured by the police and security forces,Discount Nike Air Force One Shoes, and millions of dollars worth of property destroyed.Rodney’s encounters with the Rastafarians were published in a pamphlet entitled “Grounding with My Brothers,” that became a bible for the Caribbean Black Power Movement.Having been expelled from Jamaica, Walter returned to Tanzania after a short stay in Cuba. There he lectured from 1968 to 1974 and continued his groundings in Tanzania and other parts of Africa. This was the period of the African liberation struggles and Walter, who fervently believed that the intellectual should make his or her skills available for the struggles and emancipation of the people, became deeply involved.It was partly from these activities that his second major work, and his best known –How Europe Underdeveloped Africa – emerged.In 1974, Walter returned to Guyana to take up an appointment as Professor of History at the University of Guyana,Wholesale China Jerseys, but the government rescinded the appointment. On the evening of June 13, 1980, he was killed by a bomb near the Camp Street jail.