FOR THOSE WHO SPEAK OF DR. C.B. JAGAN.

 IS THERE ANY SHAME IN YOU?

The blood of the Enmore martyrs helped make the People's Progressive Party.

Five working men went to the fields demanding a better life. They did not know that their deaths would become part of the foundation upon which a political movement would rise.

They were ordinary men. They were not political theorists. They were cane cutters—men who knew the weight of a cutlass, the heat of the cane fields and the hunger that came when a family's earnings could not keep pace with the cost of living.

They could not have known the political monster that their sacrifice would help create.

That is the tragedy.

The poor often create the movements that promise to liberate them, only to discover that liberation can become another system of dependence.

In 2026, the question must therefore be asked:

What happened to the people whose blood gave political movements their legitimacy?

Guyana's poorest citizens can still find themselves treated as though political access is a privilege reserved for those with connections. Achievement too often appears dependent not simply upon ability, education or hard work, but upon who you know and which political door will open for you.

This is not an indictment of ordinary Guyanese.

It is an indictment of a system.

History has known societies in which inherited status determined whose voice mattered and whose did not. The lesson of caste in India is not that Bihar or its people are inherently corrupt. The lesson is that a rigid social hierarchy can teach generations of people that some are entitled to power while others are expected to remain beneath them.

Guyana must not reproduce that hierarchy under a different name.

We replaced colonial masters with political masters.

We replaced one form of dependency with another.

And the impoverished still ask:

Where is our voice?

The men who died at Enmore did not die so that their descendants would need a political connection to rise.

They died believing that a working man had a right to dignity.

Their blood demands that we remember the difference.