Ecuador: down with Noboa’s bosses’ government!

The Indigenous poor workers and peasants of Ecuador have once again risen up against the bosses’ regime that oppresses them and that has now launched a fuel price hike, increasing the cost of living for the entire working nation.

Thus, the revolutionary mobilizations that toppled governments decades ago—and that in 2019 once again shook the bourgeois state, giving rise to a Popular Assembly later betrayed from within by its reformist leaderships—are being taken up again. Back then it was against the Moreno government; today it is against Noboa. But the struggle is the same: against the mining and oil transnationals that plunder their lands while oppressing their languages, cultures, and basic democratic rights.

And unfortunately, today they are again being betrayed by the leaders of CONAIE and other Indigenous organizations who seek to make deals with a government that has not freed the detained nor shown any intention of conceding. On the contrary, it has unleashed fierce militarization under the pretext of fighting illegal mining while calling the protesters “terrorists,” just as the Bolivarian Rafael Correa once did. Noboa is indeed a pawn of Trump—but the same can be said of Petro, who continues exporting coal to Israel, or of Maduro, who desperately seeks to negotiate with the U.S. a surrender deal in the face of a clear imperialist offensive.

The peasant masses must therefore deepen their struggle: taking over the imperialist oil wells, building their self-defense forces and their own organs of struggle, uniting their forces with the workers of the capital, aiming to reestablish the Popular Assembly as the first step toward the revolutionary seizure of power over the ashes of the bourgeois state, guardian of a dollarized economy that must give way to true socialism, which can only triumph internationally.

That is why the uprising in Ecuador must connect with the struggle in Peru against the Fujimorist regime of the U.S.–Peru Free Trade Agreement, and also with the Asian revolution (Nepal, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar) and the African one (Maghreb, Morocco, Madagascar, etc.). Only through the world socialist revolution will the masses finally put an end to the misery imposed on them by capitalism in its decay.

DOWN WITH THE CONCILIATORY REFORMIST LEADERSHIPS!

LET US REFOUND THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL!