Bolivia Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/latin-america/bolivia/ MARXIST ESSAYS AND COMMENTARY Fri, 23 Oct 2020 16:38:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.10 https://i0.wp.com/johnriddell.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cropped-John-Riddell-Icon-Final-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Bolivia Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/latin-america/bolivia/ 32 32 22825446 Bolivia: The People Defeat the Coup https://johnriddell.com/2020/10/23/bolivia-the-people-defeat-the-coup/ https://johnriddell.com/2020/10/23/bolivia-the-people-defeat-the-coup/#respond Fri, 23 Oct 2020 16:38:48 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=6265 The following article is reposted with thanks from Richard Fidler’s Life on the Left. First published in ‘Green Left Weekly,’ October 22, 2020. By Federico Fuentes*: Bolivians have overwhelmingly voted the left-wing Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) back into office in a resounding reversal of last year’s coup. With almost 90% of the October 18 vote […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2020/10/23/bolivia-the-people-defeat-the-coup/feed/ 0 6265 Evo Morales and Álvaro García Linera Analyze Bolivia Coup https://johnriddell.com/2019/11/24/evo-morales-and-alvaro-garcia-linera-analyze-bolivia-coup/ https://johnriddell.com/2019/11/24/evo-morales-and-alvaro-garcia-linera-analyze-bolivia-coup/#respond Sun, 24 Nov 2019 15:33:03 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=5519 On November 10, 2019, Bolivia’s military threw its support behind an uprising of rightist pro-Imperialist forces, forcing the resignation of the elected government led by President Evo Morales and driving him into exile in Mexico. Rightist gangs unleashed a wave of murderous violence across Bolivia against all suspected of sympathy with Morales. Canada’s government was […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2019/11/24/evo-morales-and-alvaro-garcia-linera-analyze-bolivia-coup/feed/ 0 5519 How Bolivia is leading the global fight against climate disaster https://johnriddell.com/2014/10/06/how-bolivia-is-leading-the-global-fight-against-climate-disaster/ https://johnriddell.com/2014/10/06/how-bolivia-is-leading-the-global-fight-against-climate-disaster/#respond Mon, 06 Oct 2014 20:20:21 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=2062 By Richard Fidler: October 6, 2014 — Bolivia goes to the polls next Sunday, October 12, in the country’s third national election since the victory of Evo Morales and his Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) in December 2005 and the second since the adoption of its radically new constitution in 2009. The MAS list, led by […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2014/10/06/how-bolivia-is-leading-the-global-fight-against-climate-disaster/feed/ 0 2062 Two views on Evo Morales and class struggles in Bolivia https://johnriddell.com/2012/04/16/two-views-on-evo-morales-and-class-struggles-in-bolivia/ https://johnriddell.com/2012/04/16/two-views-on-evo-morales-and-class-struggles-in-bolivia/#respond Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:16:52 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=906 An important exchange between two leading analysts of class struggles in Bolivia, Jeff Webber and Federico Fuentes, has appeared in the British journal International Socialism. Webber views the government of Bolivian President Evo Morales as an instrument of neoliberal reaction; Fuentes says this government “has presided over a process of change that has brought many […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2012/04/16/two-views-on-evo-morales-and-class-struggles-in-bolivia/feed/ 0 906 Bolivia’s García Linera: ‘Moving beyond capitalism is a universal task’ https://johnriddell.com/2012/02/19/bolivias-garcia-linera-moving-beyond-capitalism-is-a-universal-task/ https://johnriddell.com/2012/02/19/bolivias-garcia-linera-moving-beyond-capitalism-is-a-universal-task/#comments Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:53:55 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=871 Introduction by Felipe Stuart Cournoyer: Bolivia’s Vice President Álvaro García Linera brought a message of hope and anti-imperialist commitment to Mexico in the first week of February. Speaking to an overflow assembly of students and university personnel at Mexico City’s UNAM (National Autonomous University), he said that the government led by President Evo Morales welcomes […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2012/02/19/bolivias-garcia-linera-moving-beyond-capitalism-is-a-universal-task/feed/ 1 871 What’s behind the highway protests in Bolivia? https://johnriddell.com/2011/09/25/what%e2%80%99s-behind-the-highway-protests-in-bolivia/ https://johnriddell.com/2011/09/25/what%e2%80%99s-behind-the-highway-protests-in-bolivia/#comments Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:08:31 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=721 Opponents of a proposed highway in Bolivia seized government minister David Choquehuanca September 24 in a dangerous escalation of conflict over the plan. Choquehuanca had come to negotiate with the protesters. The marchers forcibly occupied territory of a community that supports the highway, wounding a policeman in the process. Freed after several hours, Choquehuanca said […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2011/09/25/what%e2%80%99s-behind-the-highway-protests-in-bolivia/feed/ 1 721 How Clara Zetkin helps us understand Evo Morales https://johnriddell.com/2011/09/18/how-clara-zetkin-helps-us-understand-evo-morales/ https://johnriddell.com/2011/09/18/how-clara-zetkin-helps-us-understand-evo-morales/#comments Mon, 19 Sep 2011 01:29:55 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=702 Is Bolivia “a case of a workers’ government in the sense the early Comintern/Zetkin meant it?” The question comes from Pham Binh in a comment on this website. In my view, the “workers’ government” concept is certainly relevant but must be used with caution. My article “Clara Zetkin’s Struggle for the United Front” states: Zetkin […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2011/09/18/how-clara-zetkin-helps-us-understand-evo-morales/feed/ 2 702 Progress in Bolivia: A reply to Jeff Webber https://johnriddell.com/2011/05/05/progress-in-bolivia-a-reply-to-jeff-webber/ https://johnriddell.com/2011/05/05/progress-in-bolivia-a-reply-to-jeff-webber/#comments Thu, 05 May 2011 18:14:51 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=11 Six years after Bolivians elected their first Indigenous-led government, their ongoing struggle for national and social liberation remains a subject of debate and disagreement among socialists around the world. Have the Bolivian masses been able to score significant gains under the government of President Evo Morales, first elected in December 2005? Or has the Morales […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2011/05/05/progress-in-bolivia-a-reply-to-jeff-webber/feed/ 8 11 From Marx to Morales: indigenous socialism and the Latin Americanization of Marxism https://johnriddell.com/2008/06/16/from-marx-to-morales-indigenous-socialism-and-the-latin-americanization-of-marxism/ https://johnriddell.com/2008/06/16/from-marx-to-morales-indigenous-socialism-and-the-latin-americanization-of-marxism/#respond Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:06:16 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=284 Including an exchange with Felipe Cournoyer. This article is based on a talk by John Riddell at the Historical Materialism conference at York University in Toronto on April 26, 2008. Over the past decade, a new rise of mass struggles in Latin America has sparked an encounter between revolutionists of that region and many of […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2008/06/16/from-marx-to-morales-indigenous-socialism-and-the-latin-americanization-of-marxism/feed/ 0 284 World solidarity needed for Bolivian people, government https://johnriddell.com/2006/05/30/world-solidarity-needed-for-bolivian-people-government/ https://johnriddell.com/2006/05/30/world-solidarity-needed-for-bolivian-people-government/#respond Tue, 30 May 2006 22:59:11 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=354 This article is co-authored by Barry Weisleder. It is reprinted with permission from the June 2006 issue of Socialist Action. That issue also contained a reply which is posted at Socialist Voice. TORONTO — “General jubilation” greeted the Bolivian government’s move to take control of the country’s hydrocarbon resources on May 1, according to the […]

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