tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32492462.post3111390005958955514..comments2023-12-27T05:36:10.037+11:00Comments on Bolivia Rising: Evo's DilemmasBolivia Risinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07931217260294325442noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32492462.post-36367218389240803622008-05-08T11:25:00.000+10:002008-05-08T11:25:00.000+10:00These strategies of putting pressure on Morales to...These strategies of putting pressure on Morales to do something are already proven by history to be disastrous. <BR/><BR/>In Spain in the 1930s the Republicans has the legal power, but did not mobilise any armed resistence against the counter-revoluiton until it was too late.<BR/><BR/>In Chile in the 1970s Allende put all his hopes on the Generals remaining onside and tried to prevent the condones from arming. We know the result,<BR/><BR/>The counterrevolution is arming and plotting secession. The most that can be expected of Morales is that he commits the army to defence of the unity of Bolivia, but he cannot ensure that it will not side with the rebels.<BR/><BR/>The intiative must come from the most militant and organised of the workers and poor farmers to organise into armed militias, appealing to the ranks of the army to form their own committees, and to physically occupy and defend the main gasfields (as they have done before), big private mines such as Mutun and large landholdings, and declare them nationalised without compensation under the control of the masses. <BR/><BR/>Such actions will immediately force a split in the army (as has happened several times since 1952) in defence of 'gas, land, and food for the Bolivians!'<BR/><BR/>The fascists and their US backers will then be forced to declare their hand as pro-imperialist exploiters and repressors, and not a conspiring defenders of 'democracy'. <BR/><BR/>The masses in the rest of Latin America will be motivated to act in support to block intervention, e.g. Brazilian workers blocking Lula using troops to protect the position of Petrobras in Bolivia. <BR/><BR/>Such an intiative in Bolivia will quickly expose the pro-imperialist interests of those populist regimes that pretend to act in the name of the masses, but in reality prevent them from acting themselves.<BR/><BR/>Return to the path if 1952, 2003, 2005.Dave Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com