Supported by The Walter Rodney Foundation & The Ameena Gafoor Institute

Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know is an original circa 72-minute documentary featuring a murder, Cold War conspiracies, Black Power, the end of Empire, and how that connects to the policing and surveillance practices of today.

It reveals that Guyanese historian Dr Walter Rodney was under British security surveillance from the age of 19, after visiting Russia and Cuba while a student at UWI in Jamaica. He was seen as subversive both as an academic and as an activist who supported anti-colonial movements and civil rights. Rodney was assassinated in 1980 by the Guyanese regime put in power and supported by the British and Americans.

By the time of his death, he was under surveillance by at least five different nations. Shockingly, a British secret propaganda unit paid for a negative review of his major work.

It was only in 2021 that the Guyanese government accepted responsibility for the assassination.

WALTER RODNEY: WHAT THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW, will be screened as part of the Opening Night program, the ones who shared their souls.