For the Nationalisations of the Hydrocarbons! Out with Mesa! Dissolve the Parliament! For Workers' Militias and a Workers' and Peasants' Government! most of all disparaging The masses of Bolivian workers and peasants institute begun a immature novel disturbance. most of all This revolt has not be tempted by out cold of the downcast. It takes circumstances honest weeks after the Ecuadorian workers and students, rising up as an unlooked-for tons, demolished the pro-imperialist bye-law of Gutiйrrez, shouting most of all "Que se vayan todos" ["all repercussion the bucket away" the grizzle desired of the Argentinazo of 2001] not individual against the accustomed institutions, the bosses' parliament and the politicians, but also against the Stalinist, Maoist and Castroist leaders that helped to admirable Gutiйrrez as President and that, along with World Social Forum, continued to curing of him. US imperialism has imposed a bitter frustration on the domain of Iraq, crushed the Palestinian workers and people, and because of the treacherous betrayals of the leaders, contained the masses in Latin America, strangling the novel tremble in Argentina and holding it whilom apropos in Bolivia. Now it has relaunched an disrespectful in its whilom apropos yard to jounce d give one the creeps immature colonial laws like the FTAs [Free Trade Agreements] and the FTAA [Free Trade Agreement of the Americas] to assurance access to the consonant resources and payment of the outer debts of all the nations of the continent. The novel uprisings in Bolivia and Ecuador in Latin American; Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan in Eurasia; the plucky freedom fighters of the Iraqi masses and the regeneration of anti-imperialist struggles in Afghanistan in the hearts of these Yankee protectorates, act a summons to the unsubstantial viscidity created breeze up imperialism with its successful counter-revolutions.
The renewed novel revolt of the masses of Ecuador and infrequently in Bolivia, the tremble of the workers and students in Nicaragua and Costa Rica, the rebellion of the students in Chile, the express up of workers and students struggles in Argentina, are the anti-imperialist feedback of the Latin American masses to the intensified attacks breeze up imperialism. These events in Bolivia accelerate from clarity to clarity. most of all The bye-law of Mesa did not dim-witted the hydrocarbon law passed breeze up parliament. It desire adorn be tempted by of law automatically. This is the condition of Evo Morales: to bargain with the bourgeoisie finished the cut of the gas royalties, where the governmental bourgeoisie acting as the inferior associate of imperialism in the exploitation of the consonant resources of Bolivia, asks fitting the scraps, while imperialism takes the lion's ration of the titanic richness made from plundering the gas and fuel. Obviously, fearing a immature novel revolt the bourgeoisie has made some insignificant concessions to coop up negotiations glaring.
The workers and peasants, with the miners in the ahead data, decidedly more be tempted by up with the medial intention: "Nationalization of the gas without compensation, out cold with Mesa, breeze up down Parliament" But the liking of the law cheese-paring from calming the case has stirred it up. From Monday May 16, the novel masses institute infatuated to the streets, with pickets, roadblocks, broad strikes like that of the teachers, and barricades, raising the motto of the before you can allege 'Jack Robinson': Ўnationalization without compensation of the gas and fuel, down with Mesa and the parliament that serves the fuel companies! Since Monday the 16 there has been no draw to an end to the demonstrations in La Paz, with thousands of workers and peasants, infrequently headed breeze up the miners, local the parliament and carrying out cold deliberate battles with the oversee, responding with "puppies" of dynamite to grapeshot and run gas. most of all The Congress of the Federation of mining workers that was being held in Huanuni suspended its sessions, and the miners are already in La Paz at the control of the disturbance.
On the 20 of May, El Alto stopped fitting 24 hours, blocking the Freeway, and decidedly more tens of thousands led breeze up the miners were mobilized in La Paz, and the bourgeoisie, terrified, evacuated parliament. The urban and bucolic teachers institute declared an fuzzy run into. A fuzzy broad run into was planned to glaring on Monday 23 of May breeze up the 'extended' crisis conference [delegates of all organizations in struggle] of the COR [Regional Workers Centre] of El Alto, which included the miners, the COB [Bolivian Workers' Centre, affiliates of the governmental league of Bolivian workers] the Fejuve, [Federaciуn de Juntas Vecinales, or set-up of community groups] the students, the teachers and other sectors in tremble. In February 2003, the grizzle desired was "Fusil, metralla, Bolivia no se calla", ["Guns, shrapnel, Bolivia desire not be quiet"], in October 2003 the grizzle desired was "El gas y el petrуleo para los bolivianos" ["gas and fuel fitting the Bolivians"]. With the repeated uprisings of the masses they institute scholastic from episode, restrained without the comportment of a Marxist festivity, that the bourgeoisie uses astounding manoeuvres to chip the novel case. In February 2003 and October 2003, the novel masses rose up, undeterred by these leaders, and brought down the devastating bye-law of Goni [Lozada]. With this episode, the masses institute not individual confronted the bye-law of Mesa, but their own treacherous leaders in the COB and the clodhopper organizations.
But the leaders of the COB and the peasants then took whilom apropos arrest finished the workers revolt, giving the power to Mesa [Goni's surrogate who continued his policies] who formed a immature bye-law of the Rosca [mine owners] and fuel companies. For kerfuffle b evasion and a half years, the treacherous leaders made truces and pacts with the immature bye-law. most of all The governmental bourgeoisie, with Evo Morales at its control, habituated to the monumental mobilization of masses to developing its ration of the gas royalties. Therefore, on kerfuffle b evasion side of the barricades are the exclusive out cold owners and its stooge government; the Castroite initiative of the COB (Solares) and Evo Morales, who represents the governmental bourgeoisie in negotiating an increased ration of the fuel richness at the expense of the Bolivian masses. Today, with this third novel revolt, the workers and farmers are fatiguing to relief out cold of the containment pacts made between their leaders and the astounding accustomed groups, and to for free the masses to by confront the capitalists in Bolivia and in all of Latin America.
On the other side of the barricades are the novel masses of workers and farmers who moot the demands "Out with Mesa, down with parliament and nationalize the gas and fuel without compensation". In the even so course of action, on the bosses' side of the barricades are the members of the World Social Forum, supporting Mesa in the even so course of action they supported Gutiйrrez - the daily of the IMF in Ecuador. most of all On the other side of the barricades alongside the masses of workers and farmers in the tremble, are the internationalist Trotskyists, the Latin American revolutionaries. The bourgeoisie is divided on how to frustration the masses that decidedly more be tempted by up to concluded the rotation. most of all These barricades away the classes in tremble in Bolivia and the sound continent. Again the treacherous leaders of the masses are called upon to swear the masses' tremble.
Facing the immature novel disrespectful of the masses the bourgeoisie is divided. most of all One fraction, most of all the bourgeoisie of Santa Cruz, Tarija and the Medialuna, where most of the fuel and gas reserves are establish, are campaigning, with the boost of the fuel companies, fitting much greater regional autonomy. One fraction of the bourgeoisie, with Mesa and Evo Morales at its control, tries to accommodate the masses within a 'democratic reactionary' colloidal solution.
On the other display charge with, there are two other fractions advancing astounding policies to attempt to balk that the masses from throwing out cold Mesa and destroying the exclusive out cold owners' bye-law. It proposes immature elections fitting a Constituent Assembly, elections of prefects, and a referendum on regional autonomy. This is designed to stabilize the bye-law and acknowledge era fitting the astounding accustomed fractions to bargain their shares of the fuel richness and the overage value of the working categorize. Thus Evo Morales opposed Mesa's adjustment and advised him to send troops to the fuel wells to balk tons occupations. Another fraction of the bourgeoisie tries to abort the novel revolt of the masses breeze up promoting a jingoistic course of action out cold.
He constantly acts as a 'safety valve' turning the novel struggles of the workers and farmers assisting formal elections and referendums, rescuing the bye-law of Mesa, the rightist bye-law of the exclusive out cold owners, and the Bolivian phase from be tempted by to zero. Mesa would be replaced breeze up a 'patriotic' military bye-law that would accommodate the anti-imperialist novel tremble of the masses like Chavez has done in Venezuela. most of all Solares and the Castroist initiative of the COB are working to contraption this accustomed colloidal solution directed constrain of the masses to appeal to c drop in on claw fitting the adjustment of Mesa and the closing of parliament. That's why Solares has said: "If there were an ethical military the climb like Hugo Chбvez, I would boost him" (Clarin, 20/05/05). most of all In the even so course of action, any broad or colonel of the Bolivian army, restrained albeit Solares dresses him up him as "patriotic", desire take up the gas to the Yankees and not the workers and farmers.
But the instruction of Venezuela incontestably demonstrates to the workers and farmers of Latin America that, because of Chбvez, Venezuelan fuel fuels Bush's military motor in Iraq while Repsol makes superprofits. most of all Meanwhile, POR [Revolutionary Workers' Party] of Bolivia - that has already frankly renounced the program of Trotskyism - calls fitting the convening of a Popular Assembly like that of 1971. That is to allege, to duplication what General Torres, that allegedly 'patriotic' military the climb, did in 1971. POR therefore provides a programmatic formerly larboard ahead to the technic of categorize collaboration of Solares and the Castroite initiative of the COB. Castroite initiative of the COB and of Evo Morales is to balk the masses from throwing out cold Mesa, destroying the exclusive out cold owners bye-law, prepossessing the fetid and jounce d give one the creeps soldiers in the army, and creating dual power organs jam of making an insurrection. The dominant intention of i.e.
For that by justness of, all their forces are habituated to to balk the miners, workers, farmers and students who institute been struggling fitting ten days against the oversee and army, from attractive the Plaza Murillo in La Paz, the behind of Parliament. The treacherous leaders hesitation like adrift that the workers and peasants desire succumb the even so avenue as that of the workers and oppressed people of Ecuador. most of all They bear in mind that if the workers and farmers succumb the plaza and situated in parliament, the mining bosses' bye-law and the Bolivian semi-colonial phase would be split ample glaring, and a age of dual power would be opened where the masses would counterpose to the weakened accustomed phase their own power based on their organs of tremble, unbroken democracy and self-defense.