Lutte de classes en Bolivie

[Combat]

J'ai trouve un article en ligne de Workers' Power, la section Britannique de la "5eme Internationale", sur la question Bolivienne et les recents affrontements.

http://www.workerspower.com/index.php?id=131,1172,0,0,1,0

Bolivia: fight for full nationalisation
Workers Power 310 - November 2006

Seven oil and gas multinationals signed agreements last month to handover 51 per cent of their shares to the Bolivian state and pay higher taxes. President Evo Morales called the deal, “mission accomplished for the Bolivian people.” But the agreement falls well short of full nationalisation.
The dangers of semi-nationalisation were cruelly exposed last month in the miners’ fight in Huanuni. On 6 October co-operative miners fought a pitched battle with miners, employed by the state firm Comibol for control of the Posokani mine, which produces 5 per cent of the world’s tin. The fight left 17 dead and scores wounded, as miners threw dynamite at each other and blew up shops and houses.

Posokani has been mined as a joint venture between Comibol and the co-operative Fencomin since 2002. But the word “cooperative” is misleading. There are about 4,000 cooperative miners, some in large businesses. These concerns then employ 10,000 low-paid miners, who are barred from joining a union. Comibol, on the other hand, employs about 1,000 salaried miners, members of the FSTMB union.

In September, a workers’ and peasants’ campaign forced Morales to agree to create 1,500 jobs for Comibol at Huanuni and for more investment. The “cooperativistas” saw this as a threat and went on the offensive.

After the battle, Morales promised to nationalise the mines, allowing co-operativistas to become Comibol employees. This is a start but the miners and other workers must fight for:

• Full nationalisation: no role for cooperatives or multinationals. Mines to be run under the control of salaried workers;
• For a living wage for all miners. Raise the pay of the co-operative employees of that of the Comibol employees;
• Unionise the co-operative employees;
• For a socialist plan for the mines and the surrounding region: jobs for all.

What the battle shows is that the workers and poor peasants can pressure Morales and the Movement Towards Socialism – the MAS – to act in their interests. But the populist government reflects the pressure of all classes. It refuses to rule decisively in favour of one side.

The miners and workers need to organise themselves independently of the vacillations and compromises of Morales and the MAS and build a revolutionary party that can fight for a revolutionery workers and poor peasants government to eradicate capitalism and fight for a socialist society.