Sweetening Bitter Sugar : Jock Campbell - the Booker Reformer in British Guiana 1934-1966

Examines Jock Campbell's role in the shaping of British Guiana towards the end of Empire. Campbell was a reformer whose Fabian social beliefs drove him to secure major benifits for sugar workers in the 1950s and `60s. Clem Seecharan explores the fascinating interplay between Campbell's programme of reforms and the doctrinaire Marxism of Guyana's charismatic politician, Cheddi Jagan.