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    Ideological Confusion While Burnham and the PNC were experimenting with their foreign relations, the PPP had moved even further "to the left" with its formal integration into the Communist International in July 1969. These developments were partly the result of that party's increasingly pro-Soviet stance, sealed and formalized with its public entry into the Soviet International in 1969. This was after Dr. Jagan's return from a conference of communist parties and workers in Moscow the same year. Subsequently, the PPP became a disciplined adherent of doctrinaire Marxism and the long-standing Marxist-Leninist organization became even more prominent in committees of the Communist International, ranging from the World Peace Council to the World Federation Free Trade Unions (FSM), and gained easy access to senior Kremlin officials. Meanwhile, the PPP was experiencing further turmoil and retreating from its own ranks at the executive and middle management levels. Others attributed the unrest to the internal “authoritarian” nature of the PPP. The Weekend Post noted that the Rice Growers' Association, the Maha Sabha, the Guyana Council of Indian Organizations (GCIO) and the Islamic Anjuman, all of which the PPP relied on for its ethnic support base, were increasingly more alarmed by the party's Marxist trajectory and were "trying to free themselves from the communist PPP." This claim was justified by the prevalence of public dissension within the ranks, not all of which was ideological. To complicate matters further, there was no evidence in Guyana of a right-wing force capable of countering the left. The main right-wing party, the United Force, which was at its peak in the early 1960s, was not as active as it had been...... middle of paper ...... national role political parties in Guyana and other Caribbean societies. Later in 1974, the official launch of the Workers' Alliance brought together the moral and organizational elements enshrining the vision of the new politics in Guyana. The founding organizations did not renounce their identity and hold their right of veto until some time later, when the unitary organization was consecrated. The new policy, with its guiding threads, took the form of a multiracial alliance; a development not seen since the 1950s.Summary: elements of the new political culture 1. New left – consideration of democratic paths to socialism-Christian-Marxist 2. Multiracial in theory and practice 3.demographic element 4. Economic justice for workers 5. Visible inattention to the women's question 6. Element of culture as an element of the struggle