Evo Morales talks of truce in Bolivia

[bolsheviki]

So last night the presidency went over to the head of the supreme court and just like when Mesa became the president more than a year and half ago, Evo Morales, MAS leader, is talking about a truce with the government! The indigenous people need a real revolutionary leadership if they're not to be short change by Evo Morales and the other utterly reformist leaders of the MAS at ever turn the government and the Bolivian ruling class decides to make.

Government forces have killed at least one protester, a miner, who is thought to be part of a group that was heading to Surce to shut down the congress where it was moved because La Paz has become occupied by indigenous, farmers and workers and unsafe for bourgeois functionaries!

Evo Morales is clearly up to his old game of making a truce with every new president the ruling class puts forth, in reality serving as a brake on the revolutionary potential of the movement in his quest for the presidency of a capitalist Bolivia. The up side is that there is still much sentiment by the rank and file and other organizations, in El Alto and elsewhere, that the protests must go on. What is critically missing in Bolivia in this very important hour is a leadership like the Bolsheviks of 1917 Russia that could put forth a clear program for socialist revolution and do battle with MAS leadership to win over the rank and file to the side of the working class. In 1917 the Bolsheviks did something similiar when through their clear and correct program, they managed to cause splits within the huge Social Revolutionary party which had the support of an overwelming majority of the peasanty which was being sold out to the capitailst Provisional Government by the Social Revolutionary party leadership.


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[redstar2000]

Originally posted by bolsheviki
What is critically missing in Bolivia in this very important hour is a leadership like the Bolsheviks of 1917 Russia that could put forth a clear program for socialist revolution and do battle with MAS leadership to win over the rank and file to the side of the working class.

Come now. I'll bet, sight unseen, that there are at least a dozen Leninist parties in Bolivia scrambling around to get "out in front" of the struggle.

They're just no damn good at it, that's all...just wannabe despots that the masses quite properly ignore.

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[anonymous red]

some sort of organization would be helpful though, would it not? right now it just seems that angry mobs have shut down the city, but do they have any coherent vision?

[Clarksist]

Originally posted by [email protected] 10 2005, 05:33 PM
Evo Morales is clearly up to his old game of making a truce with every new president the ruling class puts forth, in reality serving as a brake on the revolutionary potential of the movement in his quest for the presidency of a capitalist Bolivia. The up side is that there is still much sentiment by the rank and file and other organizations, in El Alto and elsewhere, that the protests must go on. What is critically missing in Bolivia in this very important hour is a leadership like the Bolsheviks of 1917 Russia that could put forth a clear program for socialist revolution and do battle with MAS leadership to win over the rank and file to the side of the working class. In 1917 the Bolsheviks did something similiar when through their clear and correct program, they managed to cause splits within the huge Social Revolutionary party which had the support of an overwelming majority of the peasanty which was being sold out to the capitailst Provisional Government by the Social Revolutionary party leadership.
Woah, did you say that they need leadership like the Bolsheviks? You do realize that despite everything Lenin wrote... all the Bolsheviks did pre-revolution was lie to the people to get them on their side, and then post-revolution all they did was oppress them. Bolivia needs a completely different approach. How about some real change, not this kind of idolatry of powerful people.

Another Marxist-Leninist state would seriously hurt the movement. Beyond comprehension.

[bunk]

The Bolivian people need to be able to control their own lives, not some leadership

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

All Power To The Workers of Bolivia!

[bolsheviki]

The following are exerpts from the latest on Bolivia published on the Bloomberg website. It's pretty clear which side has won from Evo Morales of the MAS's call for a 'truce' with the government!

June 10 (Bloomberg) -- Bolivian protesters demanding nationalization of the oil and gas industry began withdrawing from Repsol YPF and BP Plc's oilfields and Royal Dutch/Shell's oil storage facility after Supreme Court Justice Eduardo Rodriguez replaced Carlos Mesa as president, an oil lobby spokesman said.

``There is a general withdrawal by all protesters from the entire industry,'' Ronald Fessy, Bolivian Hydrocarbon Chamber spokesman, said in a telephone interview from Santa Cruz. ``The sensation is one of relief.''

Protesters on June 8 occupied BP's Yapacani and Los Penocos fields and Repsol's Patujusal and Los Cusis fields, which produce a combined 5,000 barrels a day, equivalent to 10 percent of the country's output in the eastern Bolivian jungle. Protesters also occupied an oil storage facility partly owned by Royal Dutch Shell Group and Prisma Energy International Inc. The facility provides a critical step in supplying natural gas to neighboring Brazil.

Harvard University-trained lawyer Rodriguez, 49, became the country's third president in 19 months late Thursday after police shot dead one protester and wounded three others in rioting near the city of Sucre, 400 kilometers (250 miles) southeast of La Paz, according to state news agency ABI.

Bolivian protesters began to lift roadblocks around the country and airports reopened Friday after the Movement Toward Socialism, Bolivia's largest opposition party, granted Rodriguez a respite from protests.

``We were close to the dangerous edge of East versus West,'' Congress president Vaca said, referring to tensions between the western, impoverished highlands and the eastern lowlands, home to the country's farmlands and gas reserves totaling 28.7 trillion cubic feet. ``The demons that had been released have now been controlled for good.''

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And just who has controlled the 'demons', as Vaca puts it, but Evo Morales and the MAS leadership!

[Hefer]

Evo seems nothing more than a puppet; no truce!!!, until complete victory.
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VIV LA REVOLUTION!!!

[Martin Blank]

It is when I read things like this thread that the question of a classless or cross-class "unity" -- sometimes also referred to as "left unity" -- leaves the realm of abstract theory and becomes part of the discussion on concrete tasks.

Miles

[Hiero]

Another Marxist-Leninist state would seriously hurt the movement. Beyond comprehension.

No it wouldn't. Whether or not you agree with the ethics of a centralised state, another Marxist-Leninist state would bring great benifits to the working class people and would be another anti imperialist state. It would reduce the US imperialist movement and help the leftist movement abroad.

[Sons_of_Eureka]

No it wouldn't. Whether or not you agree with the ethics of a centralised state, another Marxist-Leninist state would bring great benifits to the working class people and would be another anti imperialist state. It would reduce the US imperialist movement and help the leftist movement abroad.

I agree,as countries like cuba have kept revolutionary sentiment alive around the world despite its flaws.