By Tota C. Mangar FEBRUARY 2022 marks the 83rd Anniversary of the 1939 Leonora Strike and Riots. At that juncture of our country’s history (1939), Plantation Leonora on the West Coast of Demerara was one of the 27 functioning sugar estates in colonial British Guiana. During the first half of the 19th Century, ownership of …
The Leonora Strike and Riots of 1939 (Part One)
