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Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia: The power of the masses once again displayed

June 11, 2026 Alejandro Ramirez (Socialismo Revolucionario CWI Chile)

Popular self-organization, government crisis, and the challenges of a new stage of struggle Bolivia is experiencing one of the most intense and contradictory periods in its recent history. Less than a year after Rodrigo Paz […]

Bolivia

BOLIVIA | Revolution in Progress

May 28, 2026 Patricio Guzmán, CWI Chile

In Bolivia there is an ongoing revolution of workers and peasants, which will have an impact throughout the continent. The revolt began at the start of May 2026 and, so far, three deaths have been […]

Bolivia

BOLIVIA | Return of the Right

November 10, 2025 Alejandro Ramírez, CWI Chile

If betrayal comes from above, resistance will be born from below On November 8, 2025, Bolivia witnessed the most contradictory change of presidential command in its recent history. Rodrigo Paz Pereira assumed power in the […]

Bolivia

BOLIVIA | Failed Coup Attempt

June 30, 2024 Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary

Bolivia has once again been thrust into a political crisis with an attempted coup on Wednesday 26th of June. Reflecting the powerful revolutionary traditions the main trade union confederation COB rapidly declared an indefinite general […]

Bolivia

Victory for MAS and crushing defeat for right in Bolivian elections

October 22, 2020 Tony Saunois, CWI

Delayed elections in Bolivia brought a stunning victory of the left-populist MAS and a crushing defeat for the right and “centre” parties representing the Bolivian ruling class. Luis Arce of the Movimiento al Socialismismo (MAS) […]

Bolivia

Bolivia: President Morales removed from power by US-backed coup

November 12, 2019 Niall Mulholland, Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI)

A right-wing, US-backed attempt to overthrow the Movement for Socialism (MAS) government in Bolivia, and to replace it with a vicious anti-working class regime, is underway. Evo Morales, South America’s first indigenous national president, resigned […]

Bolivia

Bolivia: Morales government clashes with workers and the poor

November 15, 2011 By Roberto Antezana, Revolutionary Socialist Alternative (ASR, CWI in Bolivia)

Concessions to the right-wing opposition, neo-liberal policies, and attacks on the social movements convince workers of the need to build an alternative to Evo Morales´ MAS party

Bolivia

Bolivia: General strike amid intense political crisis

September 30, 2011 CWI Reporters

Indigenous movement and general strike force five ministers resignations

Bolivia

Bolivia: At the crossroads

July 6, 2010 Adam Ziemkowski, Alternativa Socialista Revolucionaria (CWI in Bolivia)

Advance to socialism or the Bolivian struggle will fail

Bolivia

Bolivia: Support Left MAS Candidates with Roots in the Social Movements

March 6, 2010 Revolutionary Socialist Alternative (ASR), CIT-Bolivia

Build the Struggle for Grass Roots Democracy and Independence in the Social Movements! No Support for Right-Wing MAS Candidates!

Bolivia

Bolivia: Morales and MAS win Presidency and 2/3 control of Congress in landslide election

January 4, 2010 Revolutionary Socialist Alternative (CWI in Bolivia)

Workers and indigenous peasants must mobilise and take revolutionary socialist action now

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Bolivia

Bolivia: ‘NO’ to the Dismissal of 152 Water Service Workers!

May 27, 2009 Revolutionary Socialista Alternative (ASR, CIT-Bolivia)

To fight the economic crisis, we need socialist, not neoliberal, solutions

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Bolivia: Approval of the new constitution opens up a new political chapter

February 24, 2009 Adam Ziemkowski, Alternativa Socialista Revolucionario (CWI in Bolivia)

Masses must move on to struggle for socialism!

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Bolivia: New Constitution approved

January 29, 2009 Text of leaflet distributed by Revolutionary Socialist Alternative (CWI in Bolivia)

Organise and struggle for socialism!

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Bolivia: The new Constitution: Vote ‘YES’ and prepare for mass struggle!

January 15, 2009 Revolutionary Socialist alternative (CWI in Bolivia)

Socialist struggle needed for real change

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Bolivia: Revolution and counter-revolution

September 19, 2008 Tony Saunois (CWI) and Roberto Antezana (CWI Bolivia)

Right-wing offensive radicalizes masses and provokes land occupations

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Bolivia

Bolivia: Fraudulent autonomy referendum in Santa Cruz

May 8, 2008 Celso Calfullan, Santiago, CWI Chile, Tuesday 6 May 2008.

Right wing opposition and the rich attempt to divide country

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Bolivia

Bolivia: Rumours of a right-wing coup

April 30, 2008 Karl Debbaut, cwi

Opposition continues with illegal referendum in Santa Cruz on 4 May

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Bolivia

Bolivia: The struggle between revolution and counter-revolution

February 21, 2008 Conny Dahmen

Report from CWI Latin America School

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Bolivia: Bolivia at breaking point

January 21, 2008 Karl Debbaut, cwi

Violent confrontation could erupt

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Bolivia

Bolivia: Worker and peasant poor majority suffers as food prices rise

August 31, 2007 Roberto Antezana, Alternativa Socialista Revolucionaria (CWI-Bolivia)

Food production and distribution should be controlled democratically by the worker and peasant majority, not by the right-wing opposition

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Bolivia

Bolivia: As class tensions rise in Bolivia, so does the possibility of civil war

August 20, 2007 Roberto Antezana, Alternativa Socialista Revolucionaria (CWI-Bolivia)

Need for a revolutionary socialist party clearer than ever

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Bolivia

Bolivia: Oil workers start hunger strike in struggle for job reinstatement

July 17, 2007 socialistworld.net

Support the Gualberto Villarroel workers – send protests!

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Bolivia: Sacked trade unionists appeal for your international support

July 13, 2007 Union leaders of the Sindicato Mixto de Trabajadores Petroleros Gualberto Villarroel

In Bolivia, it is illegal for any employer to discriminate against a portion of its workforce by creating two-tiered labor conditions.

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Bolivia: For the Bolivian right wing, it is vital to control the universities

June 22, 2007 Cunche Campos, Cochabamba, Bolivia, 23 June 2007

Friday 15 June was a day filled with violence at the campus of the university, Universidad Mayor de San Simon de Cochabamba.

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Bolivia

Bolivia: Evo Morales’ fight with the Bolivian Judicial Branch

June 18, 2007 Cunche Campos, Cochabamba, Bolivia

Current Supreme Court and Constitutional Court were Selected by Earlier Governments

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Bolivia

Bolivia: Government takes control of two oil refineries

June 12, 2007 Roberto Antezana, Revolutionary Socialist Alternative (CWI-Bolivia)

The struggle for genuine community control and worker management continues

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Bolivia

Bolivia: Contract Workers from the Gualberto Villarroel Refinery demand their rights

June 11, 2007 Mika, Alternativa Socialista Revolucionaria (CWI-Bolivia), Cochabamba

Direct and radical action announced in case their demands are not fulfilled

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Bolivia

Bolivia: CWI member arrested in Bolivia

June 1, 2007 socialistworld.net

Urgent solidarity needed

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Bolivia

Bolivia: Protest against the violent intimidation of social activists

May 31, 2007 CWI, London

The prefecture of Manfred Reyes Villa organises thugs to intimidate opposition

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Bolivia

Bolivia: Violent attack on social activists by fascist thugs in Cochabamba

May 25, 2007 cwi, London

The prefecture of Manfred Reyes Villa organises thugs to occupy squares and intimidate opposition

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Bolivia

Bolivia: Right-wing Bolivian secessionists use gas conflict to destabilize the Morales government

April 28, 2007 Johannes Ullrich, cwi Bolivia, Cochabamba

The need for the natural gas reserves to be fully nationalised under workers’ control becomes ever more obvious.

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Bolivia

Bolivia: High-Ranking MAS Officials Guilty of Corruption

April 3, 2007 Adam Ziemkowski, CWI-Cochabamba, Bolivia

Workers movement must fight for genuine accountability and socialist democracy

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Bolivia

Bolivia: From water war to gas war

March 24, 2007 Celso Calfullan (CWI)

Big business sabotage industry

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Bolivia

Bolivia: mass protests demand right-wing Prefect’s resignation

January 25, 2007 Adam Ziemkowski, CWI-Cochabamba, Bolivia

Two weeks of intense mobilisations, protests, and street blockades calling for the resignation of right-wing departmental Prefect (elected head of the regional administration), Manfred Reyes Villa, culminated in a popular assembly on January 16th in […]

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Bolivia

Bolivia: As political tensions rage in Bolivia, protesters wage battle with police

November 30, 2006 By Adam Ziemkowski, CWI, Cochabamba, Bolivia

On Monday, November 27, several hundred protesters surrounded the entrance to Cochabamba’s municipal building in what turned out to be a sharp clash with right-wing thugs and provocateurs and the Cochabamba police. 

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Bolivia

Bolivia: Bolivian Politics Heating Up Once Again

November 27, 2006 Adam Ziemkowski, CWI Cochabamba, Bolivia

Right-wing opposition to left-leaning Bolivian president, Evo Morales, and his governing party, Movement towards Socialism (MAS), has increased dramatically in the last week as potential conflicts that have been brewing for months have recently come […]

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Bolivia

Bolivia: Evo Morales’ action on oil and gas

May 15, 2006 Marcus Kollbrunner, Socialismo Revolucionario, Sao Paulo, Brazil

When Bolivia’s President Evo Morales announced, on 1 May, a decree that ‘nationalised’ the oil and gas (the ‘hydrocarbons’) resources, he sent a shockwave around the world.

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Bolivia: Morales takes on Big Oil

May 8, 2006 Karl Debbaut, cwi, Monday 8 May 2006

"The Spanish, the North Americans, the Europeans looted the tin, the silver and the natural resources. We should recognise that in 1937, under the leadership of the armed forces, petroleum was nationalised for the first […]

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Bolivia

Latin America: Bolivian elections reflect continental revolt against neo-liberalism

January 26, 2006 Tony Saunois, Secretary of the CWI, London

Evo Morales of the Movement towards Socialism (MAS) was sworn in as President of Bolivia this week. (6,000 words).

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Bolivia

Bolivia: Morales heads for office

December 22, 2005 Tanja Niemeier, cwi

Elections show rejection of neo-liberal policies and hatred of imperialism on the Latin American continent

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Bolivia

Bolivia: After the uprising

June 24, 2005 Marcus Kollbrunner, cwi

The mass protest movements against neo-liberal policies that swept Bolivia with strikes and demos have ousted president Carlos Mesa.

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Bolivia

Bolivia: May Day protests over corporations’ exploitation of natural resources

May 4, 2005 Denise Dudley, in La Paz

Inspiring demonstration of unions, miners, women, minorities and youth

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Bolivia: mass movement forces concessions from Parliament

April 8, 2005 Marcus Kollbrunner, Brazil, Socialismo Revolucionario, Friday 8 April 2005

Despite concessions, mass movement against neo-liberalism could have achieved more.

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Bolivia

Bolivia: Workers’ and poor peoples’ uprising forces out President

October 20, 2003 Andrés Aravena, Socialismo Revolucionario-CWI Chile

Over the last weeks, a powerful movement of workers, peasants and the indigenous peoples – the poorest people in the poorest country of Latin America – has checked the neo-liberal plans of the Bolivian government […]

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Bolivia: President told: “Resign or die”

March 9, 2003 Dave Carr

"ON FEBRUARY 12th, incredulous but enthralled, Bolivians watched live broadcasts of the army and the police turning their guns on each other. What ensued was perhaps the worst period of civil disorder the country has […]

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