RatoonIn 1969, there was a slight crack in the monolithic hegemony of the PNC and the organizational dominance of the PPP on campus when Ratoon, a radical group composed of academics and of students, was created. The birth of this group led to a more multiracial dynamic presence among students and faculty. Professors Clive Thomas, Josh Ramsammy and Omawale, as well as students Bonita Harris and Zinul Bacchus were prominent in this group. Ratoon, like ASCRIA, had its own monthly publication. At its peak, he published and distributed around 3,000 copies of his newspaper. In addition to joining the university, Ratoon challenged, with a vehement anti-imperial voice, foreign penetration into the economy while lending support to workers' struggles in which ASCRIA was also very influential. Like ASCRIA and IPRA, Ratoon had its own limitations. Clive Thomas clarified his activist core and its limitations. He states that Ratoon was a "cultural group, certainly, but also a political and ideological group, in the most fundamental sense of the word, in the sense that we feel that we are fighting against centuries of mystique, effects and errors of a foreign ideology… we are not a political party, according to our sense of definition, we are not candidates for office. » In other words, it was a multiracial composition of students and faculty within a single organization representing a new dimension in university politics. This multiracial composition and unity was tested soon after, as Zinul Bacchus reveals, with the visit of notorious black power leader Stokeley Carmichael (Kwame Ture). While visiting Guyana in 1970 as a guest of Ratoon, Carmichael (later Kwame Ture) told an audience at Queens's College that black power was reserved for people of African descent...... middle paper... reported serious fallout with the ruling political party. As if this were not enough, ASCRIA criticized the government's response to strikes by bauxite workers. Kwayana also resigned as chairman of the state-controlled Guyana Marketing Corporation in 1971. By 1972, the rift between the PNC and ASCRIA was so pronounced that police officers searched Kwayana's home looking for “guns, ammunition and explosives”. The actions of Eusi Kwayana and ASCRIA should not be underestimated as a crucial break with old politics. These fallouts had been brewing for a while even though, as David Hinds points out, “between 1964 and 1971, society supported the PNC on the basis of African solidarity.” According to Edward Greene, the formal split between ASCRIA and the PNC was announced in April 1973 by ASCRIA..