Defend Bolivian masses!

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iness uninese bureaucracy bolivlan junta and other Bolivian prisoners at least 2,000 political prisoners thought to be held in jail The seizure of power by a new military dictatorship in Bolivia is an attempt to crush the workers movement in the same way as Pinochet's coup did in 1973 in Chile.

Every gain, every democratic right, won by the long struggle of the Bolivian working class and oppressed masses-including the very existence of their own organisations-is now suppressed.

Already workers and their leaders have been massacred and imprisoned in the barbaric onslaught of the military.

The world economic, crisis means that more than ever the imperialists and their Bolivian allies need to increase the rate of exploitation of the working class.

The bourgeoisie has no leeway to grant reforms to the oppressed in these conditions. The imperialists and their allies know that the initiation of any genuine democratic freedoms will allow the working class with its long revolutionary traditions to build its own organs of power as it began to do in 1952 and again in 1971, and to move rapidly towards the creation of an authentic workers' and peasants' government.

It is always the quest for profit and the need therefore to oppress the masses which is paramount in the considerations of the imperialists and their local allies, and not their words about "human rights"

It is now therefore the urgent task of the working class movement throughout the world to help Bolivian workers put a rapid end to this new dietatorship and establish their own power.

In Bolivia, we support all struggles for the widest possible democratic, rights-for treedom ot organisation especially for the trade unions, for freedom of the press and assembly, for the release of all political prisoners.

We see the fulfilment of these demands as forming part of the task of the overthrow of the military dictatorship by the working masses of Bolivia, with the help of their allies internationally.

As part of the struggle for the complete destruction of the dictatorship, we support the call for a constituent assembly based on universal franchise.

This is a revolutionary democratic demand. It must not be restricted to the setting up of a bourgeois parliament such as has been overthrown so often in Bolivia. It must be combined with the struggle to form independent organs of workers' power, soviets, in which all the organisations of Bolivia's oppressed masses will be represented: these organs will group together the representatives of the working class, the peasantry and the rank and file soldiers and organise the armed defence of the workérs struggles.

They can form the basis for a continuous advance from the overthrow of the military dictatorship to the taking of power by the working class and the building of a workers' state in Bolivia based on soviet demoThrough these demands revolutionaries in Bolivia and throughout the world will fight for i strategy of permanent In the rest of the world, especially in the advanced imperialist countries upon which the dictatorship depends, we have a duty as revolutionary socialists to fight for the maximum possible political and material solidarity with the struggle of Bolivia's oppressed masses against the dictatorship.

First, we support the demand made by the resistance movement in Bolivia that there should be no recognition of the Bolivian military regime by the imperialist governments; and that all forms of economic and other assistance should be ended.

We call upon the leaders of the main workers parties (Socialist and Communist parties) to do everything in their power to stop such recognition and aid taking place.

Second, we support and aim to give concrete effect to the demand made by Bolivian workers for a blacking of trade with Bolivia.

We call on leaders of the trade union movement in the imperialist countries to implement immediate blacking of all arms and other supplies to the junta; and to impose blacking of imports-especially tin-from Bolivia.

Third, we call upon the leaders of the labour movement to initiate a massive campaign of propaganda and active, concrete solidarity in the imperialist countries in order to increase the spread of information about the new, reactionary, anti-working class regime and to help to speed its end.

Fourth, we demand that no restrictions be placed upon the immigration of political refugees from Bolivia and that they should be entitled to Social Security and other related benefits.

The bureaucratic leaders of the degenerated and deformed workers' states have long shown themselves unwilling to fight against dictatorship in Latin America.

Tha himanna 1 •aids Pinochet in Chile and the Soviet bureaucracy has a close alliance with "progressive" Videla in Argentina, the friend of the new Bolivian Junta.

We call upon the Communist Parties in the capitalist coun tries to join us in denouncing all assistance by the workers' states to such dictatorships, and to demand that they institute the blacking of trade with the measures of support to the struggle of the working class and oppressed masses.

*Long live the Bolivian workers' and peasants' struggle against the dictatorship!

*For the establishment of democratic rights! For a Constituent Assembly!

*For workers' and peasants' government in Bolivia!

*For the united socialist states of South America!

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