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Long live the revolutionary general strike of the workers and poor peasants of Bolivia against the murderOUS Evo morales government, servant of imperialism!
That’s the way to fight against the facade of the “Bolivarian revolution”, the “Gaddafist” murderous governments of the continent and the imperialist plundering!

Today the working class and the exploited masses of Bolivia carried out a huge revolutionary day of struggle in response to the bloody repression of the “Bolivarian” Evo Morales government against the poor peasants of TIPNIS.
This mass action, that imposed a true revolutionary general strike, was carried out despite and against the COB and FSTMB class-collaborationist bureaucracy. The masses in the streets defeated the policy of this rotten bureaucracy that wanted a strike to pressure the government, where one hundred bureaucrats got close to the Quemado (Burned) Palace to negotiate a miserable wage increase.
Against this policy from El Alto, in La Paz, an endless column of thousands of industrial workers, teachers and other sectors, marched while crying “Evo shakes; October is getting close” to join the thousands of peasants that were gathered together in La Paz and filled the main streets and avenues of the city, bordering the Murillo Square, in front of the government headquarters. That is how the fear of the bourgeoisie arose again: the workers and poor peasant alliance that overthrew Goni government, and later Mesa, in the revolutionary combats of the 2003-2005.
This mobilization and forces demonstration of the exploited in La Paz was huge. When the head of the march was arriving at Ingavi and Jenaro Sanginés corner, the tail was still in the La Portada, close to El Alto. There were 50 blocks occupied by the protestors, after the revolutionary slogans of “Crush EVO genocidal government! Expel the transnational companies!”
In the meantime, in other regions of the rising Bolivia, thousands of protestors in Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, Oruro, Sucre and Potosí, they irrupted at the war cry “Evo said that all would change. Lies, lies, it is the same all crap!” and “The right-wing and MAS are all the same shit!”, in allusion to the Movement to the Socialism (MAS), the Morales murdererous party.

Long live the revolutionary day of struggle of the Bolivian masses! Once again the Bolivian exploited, marking an angle of 180° with the COB bureaucracy and other collaborationist leaderships that sustain the Morales government, has put as motion to all the Latin-American and worldwide proletariat the fight for throwing down their “Bolivarian” governments and for the expulsion of the imperialist transnationals.

Nevertheless this huge combat hasn’t yet achieved its target, since the Huanuni miners, one of the main proletarian battalions, had the hands tied for the fight. That is because the union bureaucracy of the COB and the FSTMB, supported by the POR and all the World Social Forum, didn’t call for a strike and join their combat with the poor peasants and the exploited that declared war on Evo Morales.
These organizations put the mineworkers of Huanuni at the feet of the Bolivarian Morales, claiming that the way out to their demands was to pressure the government to achieve the nationalization of the mining industry. A true scam,0 exactly when the exploited are rising against Evo Morales government that only starved, repressed and jailed the workers and poor peasants.
Opposed to that, if the mineworkers with their dynamite had led this combat, Morales and the transnationals government wouldn’t have lasted a single minute. That is exactly what the POR and the class-collaborationist bureaucracy wants to avoid, showing to be loyal servants of Evo Morales.
All the class-collaborationist leaderships need to prevent the third wave of the Bolivian revolution that already started against Morales “gasolinazo”, because the bourgeoisie and imperialism have panic that this fight joins with the burning Chile and this time the working class and their combat organizations to be the ones leading the combat of the new revolutionary wave in the whole Latin America.
And then, after all this, the POR has the insolence of talking about “socialism”?! They speak of “socialism” in the holidays, but when the masses get in revolutionary maneuvers like in Libya they call to support the murderous Gaddafi government that guaranteed for years the looting of the imperialist oil companies, as is done today his greater defender, the Evo Morales government.

In these revolutionary combats of the Bolivian masses, it is clear that there are two policies: Either you are with the masses that marched to smash the genocidal Evo Morales and to expel the transnational companies as the IV International program says; or you are with the negotiation tables, the parliament laws, the justice rules and all the impotent reformist policy, that is no other thing that supporting Morales and all the other Bolivarian governments, as the POR, the Brazilian PSTU and PSOL, the “Left Fronts” of the PO and the PTS in Argentina and all the renegades of Trotskyism do.

The Bolivian masses have risen again in the third assault of the revolution that started in 2003 and rose again in 2005. This new assault is part of the heroic worker and socialist revolution that has started in the North of Africa and Middle East.

Long live the Bolivian and Latin American revolution that won’t let any reformist leadership to live in peace!

We must defeat the “Gaddafis”, “Ben Alis” and “Mubaraks” in the American continent!