Ideological Confusion While Burnham and the PNC experimented with its foreign relations, the PPP had moved further "left" with its formal membership of the Communist International in July 1969. These developments were in part the result of that party's increasingly pro-Soviet position, sealed and formalized with its public entry into the Soviet International in 1969. This came after Dr Jagan returned from a Conference of Communist and Workers' Parties in Moscow later that year. Subsequently, the PPP became a disciplined adherent of doctrinaire Marxism, and the long-standing Marxist-Leninist organization became even more prominent in Communist International committees ranging from the World Peace Council to the World Federation of Free Trade Unions (WFTU) and gained easy access to senior Kremlin personnel. Meanwhile, the PPP was experiencing further turbulence and retreat from its ranks at the leadership and middle leadership levels. Others have attributed the unrest to the internal “authoritarian” nature of the PPP. The Weekend Post noted that the Rice Producers' Association, the Maha Sabha, the Council of Guyana Indian Organizations (GCIO) and the Islamic Anjuman, all on which the PPP relied for its ethnic support base, were increasingly alarmed by the party's Marxist trajectory and were “seeking to free themselves from the communist PPP”. This claim was justified by the prevalence of public dissent within the ranks, not all of it ideological. To further complicate matters, in Guyana there was no evidence of a right-wing force capable of countering the left. The main right-wing party, the United Force, which reached its peak in the early 1960s, was not as active as in Guyana and other Caribbean societies , in 1974, the formal launch of the Working Peoples' Alliance brought together the moral and organizational elements that consecrated the vision of the new politics in Guyana. The founding organizations did not give up their identity and retained the power of veto until some time later the unitary organization was consecrated. The new politics, with its threads, was arranged in the form of a multiracial alliance; a development not seen since the 1950s. Summary: the elements of the new political culture 1. New left – consideration of the democratic paths to Christian-Marxist socialism 2. Multiracial in theory and practice 3. demographic element 4. Economic justice for workers 5. Visible inattention towards the women's issue 6 .Cultural element as part of the struggle
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