One year after they ousted the Bolivian President, Evo Morales, the right and far right parties that organised and led the coup, with the support and encouragement of the White House and the Organisat Read more...

A wave of strikes and blockades, called by the trade union federation, COB, and an alliance of peasant and indigenous organisations has paralysed Bolivia after the Supreme Electoral Court, TSE, announ Read more...

Bolivia’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales, and his Vice President, Alvaro García Linera, were overthrown in a coup, which culminated on 10 November 2019. Read more...

Bolivia’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales, and his Vice President, Alvaro García Linera, were overthrown in a coup, which culminated on 10 November 2019. Read more...

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Bolivia: Fundación de un nuevo Partido de los Trabajadores
Christian Gebhardt Vie, 30/08/2013 - 18:53 Read more...

The idea of an independent workers' party has existed within the Bolivian working class movement for a long time but it was finally given shape with the founding of the “Partido de los Trabajadores” ( Read more...

Statement of the League for the Fifth International on the day that the Cochabamba conference on climate change has opened

• No more Copenhagens – build a mass movement to force the great powers to cut their emissions

• Workers, peasants and indigenous peoples – let’s link the fight against the crisis to the battle to save our environment

• Capitalism is to blame – we need socialist planning not market anarchy with its spiralling pollution and inequality Read more...

As we go to press some 20,000 miners, peasants and cocaleros are marching on Santa Cruz, the centre of the Bolivian Right's attempt to seize complete control of the country's vast natural resources. The marchers' declared objective is to retake control of the government buildings, press and TV stations which had been seized by the Right over the past month. Read more...

On August 10, Bolivia's first indigenous president, Evo Morales, was once again given a massive vote of confidence by 70 per cent of the people. When, on 29 August, indigenous peasant and working-class supporters of Morales' party, the Movement to Socialism, (MAS) tried to hold a peaceful celebration in the Plaza 24 de Septiembre, in the centre of the city of Santa Cruz, a force of thugs organised by the UniÛn Juvenil CruceÒista (CruceÒo Youth Union, UJC), set upon them with sticks and whips. Read more...

Evo Morales was a convincing winner in the recall referendum on 10 August. He won 68 per cent of the popular vote and 95 of the 112 voting districts in the country. The only places in which he didn't win are the cities of states the Media Luna, the half moon as they are called, from the shape they make on the map in the grip of the right-wing. Yet even in these states he got over 40 per cent and in two of them 50 per cent. Read more...

President Evo Morales has won more than 63 per cent of the popular vote in Bolivia's recall referendum, a substantial increase on his score in the presidential election in 2005 (over 54 per cent). Even in the Media Luna, the rich lowland areas dominated by the racist secessionists, Morales won more than 40 per cent of the popular vote. Read more...

El objetivo de la derecha es simple: obtener el control de las reservas de petróleo y gas del país, y evitar una reforma agraria que golpeó a los más grandes ganaderos agrícolas del país. Read more...

In May just over 50 per cent of the population in the province of Santa Cruz participated in a referendum on autonomy for the province from the Bolivian state. Some 85 per cent of those who voted supported a de facto secession. The right wing prefect of Santa Cruz, Ruben Costas, told a delirious victory rally: "Today we begin in Santa Cruz a new republic, a new state."The purpose of the right wing is simple: to grab the oil and gas reserves of the country, and to prevent a land reform which would hit the big ranchers in the most agriculturally productive part of the country.Santa Cruz is the most populous of four departments which comprise the so-called Media Luna (half moon) in Bolivia's eastern lowland provinces - the others being, Pando, Tarija and Beni. These three other departments plan to hold their own autonomy votes in June. The Media Luna accounts for some 60 per cent of the country's gross domestic product, whilst containing only 35 per cent of its population. Read more...

President Evo Morales and the government of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) are celebrating two years in government. Morales has addressed the nation, telling his supporters how the MAS has introduced literacy, education and health reforms along with the nationalisation of the hydrocarbon industry and the creation of a new constitution. Read more...

Bolivia is being torn apart by its own capitalist class. Faced by a right-wing offensive, the government of Evo Morales is in crisis. Only the working class can thwart the plots of the right wing, writes Keith Spencer Read more...

In Bolivia a revolutionary party must be a workers party- not a populist party of all classes. To become this the task of creating it must be fought for in the national union federation, the COB, in the miners union and all other militant workers organisations, both trade union and political. It must aim to draw into its ranks the best fighters and organisers in the Fejuves and popular assemblies, the poor peasant organisations, the organisations of youth and women. Read more...

The latest confrontation began in December when president Evo Morales encouraged popular mobilisations in support of a major land reform bill which the right-wing minority in the constituent assembly was using the veto powers, conceded to it last year, to obstruct. At the same time the right is demanding autonomy for Santa Cruz, and its surrounding provinces, the location of much of the countries oil and gas resrves as well as its agriculturally productive lands. The manoeuvre is designed to put Bolivia’s economic wealth out of the reach of the central government and any programme to redistribute the countries’ oil income or its land to the impoverished masses. Read more...

Bolivia is in revolutionary situation. Strikes, blockades shutdowns by workers and peasants, right wing threats of civil war and of the secession of whole provinces all bear witness to this. So too does over two months of paralysis of the Constituent Assembly – a sovereign body elected to redraft the country’s constitution and decide issues such as the ownership of the land and Bolivia’s rich oil and gas reserves. Read more...

The scale of the victory was unexpected, not least by the victor and the vanquished. Evo Morales gained 51% of the popular vote in Bolivia’s presidential election on 18 December – the first indigenous person to accede to the office of president in the whole of Latin America.. His chief right-wing opponent Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, – shocked and disoriented by his miserly 31% of the vote– immediately conceded defeat. Read more...

In June this year the Bolivian workers and poor peasants could have seized power. They should have seized power. The country was engulfed by revolution. Much of commerce had been strangled by road blockades; a general strike was spreading from the capital, La Paz, to the regional centres. Read more...

This year in May and June the masses created an acute revolutionary situation where the question of who rules Bolivia was posed. The bourgeoisie was forced to retreat but the masses too were unable to impose their demands. A pause in the mass mobilisations has ensued but not a pause in the debate as to how to go forward, how to win the nationalisation of the countries natural resources, how to meet the burning needs of the urban and rural workers. Read more...

Within six weeks of his inauguration as President, Victor Paz Estenssoro has given notice to the Bolivian working class of what it can expect from his new government. Declaring a ’state of siege’ on 19 September, Paz arrested thousands of trade unionists involved in a general strike against government austerity measures. Read more...

Bolivian Revolution of 1952 - polemic with the POR

by Stuart King Read more...