Dave Stockton<\/i><\/p>\n
What began as a protest against alleged electoral irregularities in the Bolivian presidential election, fomented\u00a0by the business and landowning elites, with semi-fascist street gangs as enforcers,\u00a0has ended in a police and military coup d\u2019etat, forcing the resignation of\u00a0Evo Morales, Bolivia\u2019s first elected indigenous president. He resigned after receiving an ultimatum from the head of the armed forces following a police mutiny on 8 November, fleeing into exile in Mexico.<\/p>\n
The vice-president of the Senate, Jeanine Anez, a right wing conservative, has usurped the functions of interim president and promised new elections.This is designed as a fig leaf of constitutional legitimacy to cover the\u00a0determination\u00a0\u00a0of \u00a0the country\u2019s capitalist and landowning oligarchy to reverse\u00a0the progressive social and economic\u00a0gains\u00a0won by mass struggles between 2000-2008 and the reforms of Morales\u2019 and his party, the Movement towards Socialism, MAS, made in over 14 years in government.<\/p>\n
The coup was supported from the outset by the US government, its tool, the\u00a0Organisation of American States, OAS, and its allies in Latin America and Europe. The Argentine and Mexican governments both\u00a0condemned it. The Parliament of the European Union, however, rushed to recognise Anez and thereby approve the coup.<\/p>\n
To his credit, Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party in Britain stated;<\/p>\n
\u201cTo see Evo Morales who, along with a powerful movement, has brought so much social progress, forced from office by the military is appalling. I condemn this coup against the Bolivian people and stand with them for democracy, social justice and\u00a0independence.\u201d<\/p>\n
The League for the Fifth International utterly condemns this coup and\u00a0calls\u00a0on the workers\u2019 movement world wide to\u00a0do all it can to\u00a0\u00a0support the resistance of the Bolivian workers, peasants and indigenous communities\u00a0against this brazen counterrevolution\u00a0and to prevent the recognition of the usurpers.\u00a0The problem has not been that Evo Morales was too\u00a0radical\u00a0in his\u00a0reforms\u00a0or too dictatorial with the landowners and capitalists. Quite the opposite.<\/p>\n
Morales\u2019 fate shows that measures of\u00a0partial redistribution\u00a0and working within the\u00a0military-police machine of the bourgeois state\u00a0\u00a0cannot\u00a0achieve\u00a0permanent\u00a0reforms, let alone socialism. Only an anticapitalist\u00a0\u00a0revolution, made by the working masses themselves,\u00a0\u00a0one\u00a0that does not stop half way, can do that.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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