Revolution in Bolivia: All Power to the Popular Assemblies!

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Revolution in Bolivia
All Power to the Popular Assemblies!
By Alan Woods

The Bolivian revolution is an inspiration to the workers and youth of the whole world. In the last few days it has reached a decisive stage. The masses have risen. The workers and peasants have occupied the streets and central squares in La Paz and El Alto. Miners march with dynamite in their fists. Thousands of peasants march on the capital. The army and police are powerless to control the situation. The hated President Carlos Mesa has been forced to resign. Parliament is suspended in mid-air. Power has passed to the streets.

Faced with the mighty movement of the masses, the Bolivian ruling class is paralysed and impotent. The desperation and powerlessness of the ruling class is demonstrated by the fact that sections of the oligarchy are attempting to split the country, separating the wealthy eastern provinces around Santa Cruz from the more revolutionary western provinces around La Paz and El Alto. By this fact alone the degenerate oligarchy admits defeat even before the battle has started. They know very well that they cannot inflict a decisive defeat on the masses in a direct conflict.

The fact that sections of the ruling class want to break away from Bolivia exposes their complete bankruptcy. In a desperate effort to defend their power and privileges, these reactionary parasites would be prepared to destroy Bolivia. That is the real content of their so-called “patriotism”. Like every other oligarchy in Latin America, they are vampires and agents of imperialism who have become fat by sucking the life’s blood out of their country.

The crisis of Bolivia is exclusively the responsibility of the oligarchy and imperialism. It reflects the total impasse of capitalism in Bolivia, its inability to solve the most elementary needs of the people. The landlords and capitalists have ruined Bolivia and reduced a potentially prosperous country to beggary. No progress is possible as long as the wealth of the nation remains in the hands of these bandits.

http://www.marxist.com/Latinam/bolivia-revolutionary-assemblies090605.htm

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1. Avenge the death of comandante Che Guevara!

Bolivia, remember the warnings against the USA from your namesake Simón Bolívar.

Viva la revolución.