[Marxism] Bolivia's indigenous and social movements resolve: "If dialogue ends, we will assume more radical measures"

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Bolivia's indigenous and social movements: "If dialogue ends, we will
assume more radical measures"

Resolution passed by the Social Summit of Social Movements, held in
Sucre on September 10, 2007

http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2007/09/bolivias-indigenous-and-social.html

Considering:

That, the Constituent Assembly is a space for the construction of a
new state, with the participation of all Bolivian men and women, and
is a conquest of the people, which has cost the blood of the
indigenous, originario, campesino nations and popular classes, and a
long historic resistance in the face of the neoliberal roscas[1], who
privatised natural resources, strategic companies and took advantage
of the spaces of power for their own personal benefit.

That, the Bolivian people, expressed in the form of the social
movements, for the first time are actors in the construction of a new
state, having been marginalise for more than 500 years, where
injustice and inequality created great differences.

Therefore, the summit of the social organisations of the indigenous,
originario, campesino nations and people and the popular organisations
of the cities of Bolivia, resolves:

1. Defend, including with our lives, the Constituent Assembly and this
process of irreversible profound change being driven forward by the
historic forces of our peoples and the indigenous, originario and
campesino nations, together with the popular organisations.

2. That in the case of there not being democratic guarantees for the
installation of sessions [of the Constituent Assembly], we demand that
the sessions should be immediately installed in another department,
maintain the city of Sucre as the centre of operations.

3. We support our sister Silvia Lazarte Flores, president of the
Constituent Assembly who, due to being an indigenous woman who wear a
pollera [indigenous dress], was discriminated against by racist
oligarchic sectors from the city of Sucre.

4. We rule out and reject in a firm manner, the ruling laid down by
the District Superior Court of Chuquisaca [2], which was an act that
was a perversion of justice and an attack on the independent and
foundational character of the Constituent Assembly. We can not allow a
resolution approved by a majority of assembly delegates, elected by
the people, to be ruled out of order by two judges named from above,
according to a sharing out of quotas of power between the traditional
parties of the right.

5. We demand that the assembly delegates, in accordance with moral and
ethical principals, do not receive their salaries for days not worked.

6. The social movements of the countryside and city will defend the
process of change, headed by Evo Morales Ayma, Constitutional
President of the Republic, who has been carrying out deep structural
changes, in the economic, in the political, in the social and in the
cultural sphere, in compliance with the mandate of the people.

7. We demands that the convening of the National Congress and the
presidential report given every August 6, take on a rotational
character between the 9 departments, based on a principal of equality,
equity and justice.

8. We denounce in front of the international community and human
rights organisations, the aggression and insults directed at social
organisations and assembly delegates, the burning of the symbols of
the indigenous, originario and campesino peoples, and the destruction
of the headquarters of the social organisations.

9. We warn that a small groups of the fascist elites, by continuing to
misinform the population, are prejudicing the Constituent Assembly,
and that if the dialogue ends, we will assume other more radical
measures, which we as social organisations reserve the right to use.

10. The social organisations of the countryside and the city declare
ourselves in a state of emergency, permanent vigil and commit
ourselves to organising Committees in Defence of the Constituent
Assembly, via out confederations, federation, neighbourhood
committees, associations, unions, capitanías, tentas, ayllus[2] and
all social and popular organisations to guarantee the functioning of
the Constituent Assembly and consolidate our proposals in the new
Political Constitution of the State.

Passed in the city of Sucre on the ten day of the month of September of 2007.

Notes

[1] Rosca was the word given to describe the oligarchy tie to tin and
silver mining during the first half of the 20th century.

[2] The Superior District Superior Court of Chuquisaca ruled the
overturning of a plenary decision by the majority of the delegates of
the Constituent Assembly to eliminate debate around the capital.
[3] capitanías, tentas, and ayllus Indigenous communitarian forms of
organisation

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