Editing Walter Rodney (section)

=== Later life ===
In 1974, Rodney returned to [[Guyana]] from Tanzania.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/3997943|title=Walter Rodney: A Biography and Bibliography|first=Horace |last=Campbell |journal=Review of African Political Economy|date=May 1960|issue=18 |pages=132–137 |jstor=3997943 |access-date=20 Feb 2023}}</ref> He was due to take up a position as a professor at the [[University of Guyana]], but the Guyanese government prevented his appointment. Increasingly active in politics, he joined the [[Working People's Alliance]] (WPA),<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://roape.net/2022/05/12/the-birth-of-the-working-peoples-alliance-in-guyana/|title=The birth of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana|first=Chinedu |last=Chukwudinma |journal=Review of African Political Economy|date=12 May 2022|access-date=25 January 2023}}</ref> a party that provided the most effective and credible opposition to the [[People's National Congress (Guyana)|People's National Congress]] government and aimed to "create political consciousness, replacing ethnic politics with revolutionary organisations based on class solidarity."<ref name="auto"/> In 1979, he was arrested and charged with [[arson]] after two government offices were burned. The trial was deferred three times and later dropped due to lack of evidence.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03064228108533287 |title=A poem for Walter Rodney|author=Edward Kamau Brathwaite|journal=Index on Censorship |publisher=The Caribbean|date=June 1981|volume=10 |issue=6 |page=26|doi=10.1080/03064228108533287 |s2cid=152261408 |access-date=23 November 2021|url-access=subscription}}</ref>