The following is an English Language Translation of an article in En Marche, the official Organ of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador. The original Spanish language article is linked above.
The peoples of Bolivia fight against fascism
The coup d'etat promoted by the right, the police and the Bolivian military, which has the support of imperialism, the OAS and the reactionary governments of the continent is rejected by the workers, peasants, youth, revolutionaries, leftists and democrats of that country , of the region and the world.
After several years of management, the government of Evo Morales and his MAS movement reaped criticism and claims from large sectors of the population, who saw how he implemented a policy contrary to his "leftist" and "anti-imperialist" speeches, while applying a policy of division in the popular movement (as all the so-called progressive governments have done): they divided the CIDOB (Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of Bolivia), then divided the CONAMQ (National Council of Ayllus and Markas del Qullasuyu ), they tried to create - and at one time it seemed possible - a parallel APDHB, and related labor unions were also subject to parallelism or judicialization of opposition leaders and the destruction of undisciplined union directives.
Discontent with the Morales government was accumulating in «popular sectors and the urban middle class: the TIPNIS, the disabled, the teaching staff, the university students, the ADEPCOCA coca growers, the working children, Tariquía, Potosí, Achacachi and many other sectors they were victims of the government and its policies of extractivism and developmentalism aligned with the Chinese-Russian imperialist bloc ”» point out the comrades of the PCR of Bolivia. Authoritarianism is a characteristic of self-styled governments as "progressive", who had as main enemies organized popular sectors and organizations left.
The atmosphere of social discontent was expressed for a long time, clearly becoming evident when he lost the referendum called to reform the Constitution and be able to stand for a new reelection; It was clearly manifested in the vote of the elections last October, which did not give him the victory in a single round and forced him to go to a ballot, but he chose fraud by precipitating the events that the world knows.
In the initial protests against electoral fraud, two aspects must be distinguished: the popular sectors that did so from progressive and democratic positions (it should not be forgotten that the COB in recent days withdrew support for Morales), and the mobilized sectors on the most reactionary right of Bolivia. The latter has had the ability to capitalize in his favor the popular discontent against the withdrawal, and with the support of the Army and the Police to give a coup d'etat that is showing its reactionary and criminal nature.
Today the people fight in the streets against fascism. The organizations of the left that fought against authoritarianism and several of the economic measures of neoliberal dye promoted by Evo lead the discontent and work to give direction to the antifascist resistance. The government of Áñez, the army and imperialism exert a strong repression that has cost the lives of more than 20 people.
The will of struggle of the Bolivian peoples, expressed during these last days, gathers the experience and teachings of the struggles in the past decades, which makes it appear that the correlation of forces and the relationship between them becomes increasingly complex as that at present there is no clarity of what the final resolution to the political crisis would be.
