Bolivia’s 18th of Brumaire
Analysis of the 2019 coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia, placing it in the longer historical context of Morales' political career as well as the more recent events preceding the coup.
Balance sheet and perspective of the current proletarian struggles all over the world
Submitted by Guerre de Classe on Nov 14 2019 16:49
This past year we see revolts one after the other all over the world: revolts that lead Macron to visit the bunkers of the Elysée, that make Lenin Moreno move the seat of the government to Guayaquil, that assault the barracks and the headquarters of bourgeois parties in Iraq while reviving the memory of the insurrection of 1991, that topple one after the other prime ministers in Haiti or that plant a black flag in the Hong Kong parliament. The world bourgeoisie is beginning to get afraid.
They are not Evo supporters! They are Alteños, dammit!
Submitted by Ed on Nov 13 2019 13:05
Statement from Colectivo Curva on the resistance of the people of El Alto in response to the ongoing coup attempt in Bolivia. Based in El Alto themselves, Colectivo Curva argue that the native peoples of El Alto remember their history of struggle against the Morales government: they do not fight for him and his party, but against an attack on their communities from the far-right coup plotters.
Quiet Rumours An Anarcha-Feminist Reader, New Edition
This is a fascinating window into the development of the women's movement in the words of those who moved it.
Qué hacer
Exposición de la historia del concepto de comunización, acompañada de una crítica de algunos sus usos más recientes y frívolos
2007: Bolivian Sex Workers Strike
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 25 2017 18:42
The city government and local vigilantes attacks on the sex workers of El Alto provoked a national campaign by Bolivian sex workers against discrimination and for legal reforms.
2011-12: Disabled Bolivians March to La Paz
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 19 2017 03:37
In 2011 a group of disabled Bolivians marched through the country to the capitol to push for increased support and to combat stigma. They were met with riot police and state violence.
1983-85: Bolivian Protests and Strikes Defeat President
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 18 2017 19:36
In 1983 Bolivia elected a left wing president supported by a coalition of leftist parties and union federations. However the President priorities the paying of foreign debt and brought in neoliberal reforms and lowered wages and living standards for many Bolivians. As a result he alienated his allies and thousands of industrial workers and peasants rebelled with a series of protests and strikes.
Nicer ways to do it? Bolivian miners fighting back
Submitted by rooieravotr on Aug 26 2016 15:20
Struggle, repression and contradictions in Bolivia
Workers' control in Latin America, 1930-1979 - Jonathan C Brown
Submitted by Anonymous on Aug 11 2016 18:59
A series of essays investigating the everyday acts through which Latin American workers attempted to assert more control over work processes and thereby add dignity to their lives, during the mass working class struggles in the mid-20th century. We do not agree with the leftist nationalist perspective of some of the essays but reproduce them all for the historical information therein.
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