Against the right’s offensive in Bolivia: LET’S ORGANIZE THE WORKERS’ RESISTANCE AGAINST THE SEMICOLONIAL STATE AND IMPERIALIST SUBMISSION

After a brief attempt to call to new elections, Evo Morales has given up the presidency. He does so before the pressure exercised by the Army, the institutions of the semi-State, the mutiny of the police and the demonstrations in the streets, promoted by the civic committees, headed by Camacho and Mesa.

He resigns after a great erosion of his government, that included many years of missteps that ended up in the scandal of fraud, recognized by the OAS – organism that was called by Evo himself-, while the peasants and native peoples’ organizations are notoriously absent even though they had been appealed by the MAS (Movimiento al Socialismo) to defend La Paz.

The Amy’s stance and the police mutinies have introduced a putschist element to the right’s offensive, encouraged by imperialist support. Although this coup has not been yet completed by these hours –since the Army has not yet seized power- it is not yet out of the table that this could happen, given the explosiveness of the situation.

Evo Morales -who during these 13 years has constantly given out concessions to the bourgeoisie of Santa Cruz, has made agreements with the exploiters of the countryside and has submitted Bolivia to the imperialist interests- actually is the typical petty-bourgeois Bonapartist that gives in his “people” to the right, choosing to quit instead of calling the masses to defend his government; those masses that are feared and mistrusted by him. The State that Evo named “plurinational” has shown its semicolonial and decomposed character.

His old partners of the Central Obrera Boliviana (Bolivian Workers’ Central) have also asked him to resign in order to “pacify the country”, leaving the workers’ helpless before imperialist interests.

The workers’ movement and peasant’s organizations have been left in the hands of the emboldened right and an Army that has shown its actual character of guardian of the capitalist interests. Therefore, it is vital to organize the workers’ resistance now, picking up the threat of the tradition of the great actions of the Water War, the miners’ movement and the peasants struggles. The only way to confront imperialism and its local partners is with the methods of the working class.

We must overthrow the bureaucrats of the COB and recover it; we must rip off of the peasants and native people’s organizations the conciliators of the MAS and organize the people’s armed resistance against the right’s, the police’s and the Army’s actions and fight for the dissolution of the repressive forces. It is fundamental to preserve the workers’ and people’s interests that today are endangered. 

All this takes place in the middle of great mass actions across Latin America, as we have seen in Ecuador and Chile. It is urgent that the left currents who advance the dictatorship of the proletariat respond programmatically to the dramatic absence of a revolutionary leadership that can lead a workers’ and socialist way out to the events in the region.

A step in this direction could be a Latin-American Conference in which the whole of the revolutionary left discusses and advance to the masses a revolutionary program that contributes to the construction of an internationalist vanguard able to intervene in these processes, as part of the reconstruction of the Fourth International.