BOLIVIA, Yungas- September 2nd, 2018
They massacre us and loot our natural resources at the service of imperialist voracity...
The poor peasant farmers of the Yungas bravely respond to the attack of the murderous government of Evo Morales, which slaughters us without mercy...
The miners of Huanuni, the teachers, the Neighborhood Boards of El Alto, the College of Doctors, and the students of the UPEA and UMSA universitieshave already demonstrated they are in favor of the release of Franklin Gutiérrez and others arrested people for fighting. They repudiated the Government for the murders at point blank range and ask for the resignation of Evo Morales...
It is time to defeat the attack of the capitalists and their bourgeois constitution at the service of the transnationals ... |
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OUT WITH EVO MORALES, MURDERER OF HIS PEAPLE
AND AGENT OF THE IMF!
The task of the entire workers' movement, poor peasants and combative students is to RECOVER THE COB EXPELLING THE CORRUPT LEADERS OF THE MAS, putting it at the service of the struggle for health, education, retirement, land for the poor peasants and all our demands ... LET’S THE MINERS’ DYNAMITE RETURN TO THE STREETS! LET’S OPEN THE ROAD TO THE WORKERS AND PEASANTS ALLIANCE!
Unique list of demands! Self-defense committees!
LET’S OPEN THE ROAD TO THE GENERAL STRIKE!
To finance all the workers and exploited masses’ demands: No payment of the fraudulent foreign debt to the IMF! Nationalization without compensation and under workers control of all oil wells, gas fields, oil pipelines, gas pipelines, refineries, etc. and all the mining!
To guarantee land to the poor peasants: We must expropriate the land to the Fascist oligarchy of the Media Luna!
BOLIVIA WILL BE SOCIALIST OR A WALL STREET COLONY
A couple of weeks ago a large contingent of soldiers of the Joint Task Force (FTC) were present in Asunta, Sud Yungas of La Paz province with the purposeof forced eradication of 1,500 hectares of coca cultivation, the State reinforced its operation with 500 more police from different regions of the country to launch a brutal repression and persecution of the leaders of the Departmental Association of Coca Producers (ADEPCOCA). Hard confrontations were provoked, the poor peasants of Asunta denounced that the repressive forces operated as they did in times of Banzer’s dictatorship. They entered house by house, looking for the leaders and robbing them their few belongings.
Last Wednesday, in a new ambush by the repressive forces, two “cocaleros” were killed at close range (Eliseo Choque, 31, and Carlos Vega, 54). The prosecutor, Alexis Vilela, declared after participating in both autopsies: "One of the citizens has four orifices of entrance and exit of firearm and the second one also has (...) two orifices of entrance and exit in the regions of the abdomen, the head, and one of them, in the right leg ". The bodies of the community members were transferred to the doors of Adepcoca to perform a public vigil where a feel of a lot of pain and anger could be seen. The executive of the Council of Peasant Federations of the Yungas (Cofecay) agreed: "Yungas will maintain a struggle until they overthrow this Government of the Palace (...) We are going to throw it worse than (former president, NdR) Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada ".
The brutal repression and persecution came hand in hand with arrests, as happened with the president of Adepcoca, Franklin Gutiérrez, who was transferred to San Pedro prison after being falsely accused of being the mastermind of the ambush of FTC personnel in the Assunta and the death of policeman Daynor Sandoval. This, filled the Yungueño people with more hatred and a mobilization led by women, children and young people marched to the city of La Paz last week to the cry of "Evo you are a murderer!", in defense of the plantations of original coca, demanding the exit of the repressive and murderous FTC of its region; the freedom to the president of Adepcoca, and the resignation of Evo Morales. Workers' and Popular Tribunals to judge and punish those responsible for the murder of the student Jonathan and the three massacred people of Asunta-Yungas! Murderer and repressive State! Dissolution of the police and all the repressive forces of the State! Let's set up together Self-defense Committees of workers, poor peasants and combative students to confront the murderous government police! Freedom to all the detainees of the Yungas! Freedom to the community members of AyoAyo and Achacachi, the exploited miners by the cooperativist bosses and all the political prisoners for fighting!
Under the "America for the Yankees" road map, the Bolivarian governments are deepening the whip of capital with massacres and hunger. As well as Ortega in Nicaragua and Maduro in Venezuela, Evo Morales has not hesitated to add four new murders to his list; there are already more than 80 deaths during his government. That's why the cry of "Murderer Evo!" resounds again. And the key issue for this repressive government is the agrarian rent of coca leaf production. Morales intends to give the best guarantees to his social base in the Chapare where the rich peasants who serve as counterrevolutionary force, defend the "Process of change", at the service of the transnationals.
It did not finish drying the fresh blood of Jonathan and now the Yungas dresses in mourning, as a result manifestos have come to light driven from the workers' base and exploited as miners, universities, education workers, health workers, etc; repudiatiating the new murders in the Yungas, for the release of the detainees, the resignation of Evo Morales and the dismissal of the Government Minister Carlos Romero. Long live solidarity among the exploited! If the Yungas win, we all win! The attack is already here and we have to stop it now!
The women who produce coca along with their children will arrive on Monday, September 3 at the seat of government, hundreds of workers and exploited announce that in solidarity with them will receive the march. It is a great opportunity to advance in consolidating the workers 'and peasants' alliance in the streets. So, it is crucial that in this struggle of the poor peasants of the Yungas, the mining and manufacturing proletariat enters the scene. The thunder of miner's dynamite must sound again! All democratic tasks such as the break with imperialism and the pressing problems on the agrarian question can only be resolved with the proletariat as the leader of the nation.
To march to the headquarters of the COB to recover it from the hands of the Massist bureaucracy, is at the order of the day. We have to refound it as in 1952 - without treasonous bureaucrats, or "workers" ministers;with its direct workers democracy, its workers' militias and peasants under the legacy of the Pulacayo Thesis. We have to fight for a real fighting plan with a single list of demands and prepare the General Revolutionary Strike to defeat the gringo Evo Morales, his regime of the pact with the Fascist Media Luna, the bourgeois constitution, the IMF and the imperialist transnationals. The solution of the problems of the land will not come from the hands of the bourgeois parliament nor from demands to the murderous government that has the Banzerist Armed Forces that massacred us in October 2003 and takes care of the private property of the whole bourgeoisie. The bourgeois plurinational constitution that arose from the regime of the Evo Morales pact and the Fascist Media Luna was dictated by the transnationals. This guarantees more than 80% of the best fertile land to that landowning oligarchy, that's what the infamous pact was about.This pact must be destroyed retaking the road of the 2003-2005 revolution, but this time taking it to victory as a link of the Latin American and world revolution.
For having a decent life and conquer all our demands we have to expropriate the expropriators! Expropriation of the landowning oligarchy and the fascist Media Luna to give the poor peasants the land, through a nationalized single state bank; to guarantee cheap loans so that they have tractor, seeds and fertilizers! Out gringos of Bolivia and Latin America! Out the gringo Morales! For a provisional government of workers and poor peasants supported by their worker and peasant militias!
Today Latin America is a hotbed, because the masses can no longer bear so much hunger, repression and jail. The working class seeks the way to overthrow Macri's starver Government and the infamous regime of the bosses' parties and imperialism in the streets. Dozens of universities and schools are taken by the students. The "cacerolazos" (pot-banging protest, Nde T) are present and the working class votes in their assemblies to go on strike against the rotten bureaucracy. We must follow that example and join the fight at continental level against the IMF, the transnationals and their servile agents!
For the working class to live, imperialism must die! Let's open the road to the worker and peasant alliance! A single combat from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego!
Liga Socialista de los Trabajadores Internacionalistas de Bolivia
(Socialist League of Internationalist Workers of Bolivia)