Working People's Alliance

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The Working People's Alliance is a social democratic political party in Guyana. WPA was founded in 1974, as an alliance of Working People's Vanguard Party, Association for Cultural Relations with Independent Africa, Indian Political Revolutionary Associates and Ratoon.^[1]

At the elections, 19 March 2001, an alliance of the Guyana Action Party with the Working People's Alliance won 2.4% of the popular vote and two out of 65 seats. In 2005 one of the 2 MPs left the party to join the Alliance for Change. Its coalition with the Guyana Action Party also ended. Results of the August 2006 elections for the WPA are not yet available, but it definitely did not improve on its 2001 performance.

WPA is the party of the historian Walter Rodney, who was assassinated during an election campaign in 1980. It has never been the ruling party in Guyana. Usually it has been the third largest political party in Guyana, but its strength has been decreasing.

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• Official web site

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