Statement By

Anti-Imperialist Organizations and Individuals for Evo Morales and Bolivia

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We, allied anti-imperialist organizations and individuals across the world condemn the rightwing coup against indigenous president Evo Morales that forced him and other members of the Bolivian government to resign. This coup is being undertaken to inflict the worst kind of violence upon class-conscious, indigenous revolutionaries who, under the banner of indigenous socialism, have forged the path toward self-determination and peace.

To this day, no evidence exists to demonstrate that the October 20 elections which Evo Morales won were fraudulent. As early as one day later – on October 21 – the Organization of American States (OAS) released a public statement in an attempt to discredit the election results without any supporting evidence. For all its claims of multilateralism and diversity, the OAS receives a disproportionate amount of its funding from Washington DC.

This is not the first time that the United States Government engaged in a coup in Latin America. This is not the first time that the U.S. government fully supported a member of the local economic and political elite whose aim is to restore the ruling elite bloc’s policies which are hostile to the interests of the majority.

Evo Morales’ rival, former Bolivian President Carlos Mesa, an agent of the Washington D.C. based think-tank, the Inter-American Dialogue, and a political figure known for his hostility towards indigenous socialism and partiality to multinational big business has the qualifications of an ideal imperialist comprador.

The contributions of the Movement for Socialism (MAS) – under the leadership of Evo Morales – enjoys enormous support from the indigenous population and the working class of Bolivian society. Its contributions to the political and economic advancements of Bolivia through the painstaking economic and cultural empowerment of indigenous people and workers is well known and is inspiring, especially at this time of neoliberal attacks on the world’s working people.

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We stand together in unity with Bolivian workers, peasants, and indigenous people in their struggle against U.S. intervention and economic imperialism. We strongly condemn the comprador elite in Bolivia who are agents of U.S. imperialism. We are prepared to reinforce all efforts to bring the perpetrators of violence to justice, may it be in the form of support for our Bolivian friends and comrades and/or an international people’s tribunal that will hold the culprits in this electoral destabilization and rightist coup fully accountable for their crimes against humanity.

El mundo con Evo, so are we!

U.S. hands off Bolivia!

Defend the right to self-determination! Defend the people’s right to live in peace!

Initiating Organizations and Individuals:

Anakbayan USA

BAYAN (New Patriotic Alliance) Philippines

BAYAN- USA

Black Workers for Justice

Candidatura d’Unitat Popular Països Catalans

Coordinadora Nacional Sindical y Social (CNUSS-Guatemala) Covert Action

Magazine (USA)

Frente Populare (Italy)

Frente Popular Revolucionario (FPR Mexico)

Fundación Amancio (Guatemala)

International League of Peoples’ Struggle-Australia (ILPS) ILPS Canada

ILPS Philippines

ILPS Commission 1 The cause of national liberation, democracy and social liberation against imperialism and all reaction

ILPS Commission 11 Struggle of teachers and other education workers against imperialism and for an alternative future

International Women’s Alliance

Inti Barrios: Costureras de Sueños (Mexico)

Juventud Socialistas del Perú

Journal of Labor and Society

May Day Committee (Melbourne Australia)

Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM)

New Afrikan People’s Organization (NAPO)

New York Boricua Resistance

New York Peace Council

October Revolution Centenary (New York City)

Philippines-Bolivarian Venezuela Friendship Association

Potere al Popolo (Italy)

Proles of the Roundtable (USA)

Regional Council of Africans in the Americas

Union of Cypriots

Carol Araullo – Chair, BAYAN Philippines

Alessio Arena – Fronte Popolare,Italy

Christopher Connery, Professor, University of California Santa Cruz

Diego Gullotta, Professor of Sociology, PRC

Giuliano Granato- National Coordination,Potere al Popolo, Italy

Andrew Kahn, Voice of América Blog

Liza Maza – Secretary-General, International League of Peoples’ Struggle

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Mateo Bernabé López Pérez, Coordinadora nacional sindical y social, Guatemala

Florentino López Martiznéz, Frente Popular Revolucionario Mexico

Immanuel Ness – author, Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Gobal Working Class (2016)and Chair, New York Peace Council

Ben Norton, journalist, USA

Paloma Polo – filmmaker, Spain

Sarah Raymundo – Chair, Philippines-Boliviarian Venezuela Friendship Association

Renato Reyes Jr., Secretary-General BAYAN-Philippines

Akinyele Umoja,author,We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi

Freedom Movement (2013)

Samuel Villatoro, Fundación Amancio,Guatemala

Additional Signers:

Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

Socialist Unity Party / Partido por el Socialismo Unido (USA)

Oz Karahan – President, Union of Cypriots (Cyprus)

Loan Tran, International Action Center (U.S.)

Alliance for Global Justice

Chuck Kaufman, National Co-Coordinator, Alliance for Global Justice (U.S.)

Prof. Jose Maria Sison, Chairperson Emeritus, International League of Peoples’ Struggle

Students and Youth for a New America

Dakota Lily, activist, Students and Youth for a New America, NYC-NJ-PA

Union del Barrio

American Indian Movement, Southern California

Occupy ICE, Los Angeles

Human Rights Alliance for Child Refugees and Families (USA)

Congress of Teachers and Educators for Nationalism and Democracy-UP (CONTEND-UP)

Gwen Bautista, Artist and Independent Curator

People’s Power Assembly (Baltimore, MD USA)

Youth Against War & Racism (Baltimore, MD USA)

Malcolm Guy, Vice Chair External, International League of Peoples’ Struggle

Centre d’appui aux Philippines / Centre for Philippine Concerns (Montréal)

Concerned Artists of the Philippines

Antares Gomez Bartolome (Quezon City, Ph)

Danny Haiphong, Contributing Writer, Black Agenda Report

Cindy Sheehan, National Coordinator of March on the Pentagon and Host/Producer of Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox

March on the Pentagon

Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox

Carlos Martinez, writer, Invent the Future (London, GB)

Ann Garrison, Journalist, San Francisco Bay View, Black Agenda Report, Pacifica Radio

ILPS Commission 4

FMLN-Vancouver

Solidaridad Ayotzinapa Vancouver

Venezuela Peace and Solidarity Committee of Vancouver

Jesus Rodriguez-Espinoza – Editor, Orinoco Tribune (www.orinocotribune.com)

United National Anti-War Coalition

Committee to Stop FBI Repression

Chicago Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines

Jaime Coreas Jiménez, FMLN Vancouver

María Luisa Melendez, FMLN Vancouver

Clara Sorrenti, Activist, Communist Party of Canada – Forest City Club

Venezuela Peace and Solidarity Committee of Vancouver

Leslie Salgado, Friends of Latin America, Columbia, MD

Michele & Rick Tingling-Clemmons, Gray Panthers of Metropolitan Washington

Kayla Pop, Afro-Peruvian activist, worker, student

ILPS Commission 10 Rights of indigenous peoples, national minorities, oppressed nationalities and nations for self-determination and decolonization against discrimination, racism and national oppression perpetrated by imperialism and local reaction

Youth For Environment Education And Development Foundation (YFEED Foundation), Nepal

Julia Salazar, New York State Senator, 18th District, Brooklyn, New York

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