The Departmental Workers’ Central of Cochabamba (COD), declared in permanent emergency, resolved on Monday morning, from its Expanded Emergency, two determinations: on the one hand to promote an action of unconstitutionality against the adjustment decree, and on the other hand to mobilize 50% of its members to the city of La Paz to join the mobilizations of the COB (Bolivian Workers’ Central).
At the same time, the Departmental Federation of Mining Cooperatives of Cochabamba (FEDECOMIN) and its 150 affiliated cooperatives led a massive march that took the main avenues until entering the Main Plaza 14 de Septiembre demanding the total repeal of the decree, also denouncing the betrayal of its leaders.
After the massive march on Friday by the COD, this Monday in its Expanded Emergency, it defined an action of unconstitutionality. According to its legal analysis, it denounces 16 articles of the decree as absolutely unconstitutional, including the power of the Executive to close Congress, articles that violate the Political Constitution of the State (CPE) by attributing powers that do not correspond to it. Faced with this, the COD determined:
Specific Unconstitutionality Action:
The COD will file a legal action before the competent courts. In addition, he will urge the Cochabamba parliamentary brigade to file an abstract unconstitutionality action against the decree, exerting pressure from the legislature.
Mobilization towards La Paz:
In an act of class solidarity and to massify pressure at the national level, it was decided that starting tonight 50% of the members of the union organizations affiliated with the COD will move to the headquarters of government. Its objective is to support and strengthen the mobilizations called by the COB, with the common goal of achieving the repeal of the decree.
However, the complaint was not limited to the COD. FEDECOMIN, from its mining base, publicly pointed out the leader of the National Federation Richard Caricari and leaders who they described as “sold out to the right”, a fact that exposes the fissures and tensions with the union bureaucracies within these organizations. In parallel, FEDECOMIN Cochabamba led a massive mobilization that started from the Viaduct and advanced in column to Plaza 14 de Septiembre. The central slogan of the mining cooperatives was clear: the repeal of Supreme Decree 5503. Their protest also incorporated a double character: internal denunciation and active solidarity with the sectors mobilized at the national level, reaffirming that the fight against the decree is also a call to recover the political independence of the working class from its own bases.
The fissures and new turning points that the mobilizations are producing within the parent organizations express the depth of the discontent of the bases, which today they not only denounce, but are beginning to question and threaten to overwhelm the traditional structures. This process manifests itself in the ignorance of directions, in the radicalization of measures and in the emergence of more organic forms of struggle, which reveal the breakdown of the old union order and the search for a new horizon of action built from below.
From the Revolutionary Workers’ League (LOR-CI), which promotes the international network La Izquierda Diario in Bolivia, they reaffirm their commitment “to the political independence of the working class, the unity of all sectors in struggle and the radicalization of the measures until all adjustment policies are defeated. To achieve this, it is urgent to begin to guarantee the stoppage of work, that is, of production starting with the most solid sectors of the COB, mining and manufacturing, so that it extends to factories and workplaces. Only in this way can the strike, already called by the COB, be guaranteed and move towards the massification of the mobilization throughout the country.”
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
