LIS statement about the rebellion in Ecuador
1 In the first half of October 2019 an uprising of the Indians of Ecuador, turned into the leader of the workers and oppressed people of the Latin American country, he printed a blow to the neoliberal adjustment, agreed with the IMF, Lenin Moreno government.
2. Ecuadorian Indians staged a real revolt of the poor people of Ecuador facing increased 123% in the price of fuels, next to the pay cut for public employees and the dismissal of thousands of them, reducing holiday and the introduction of various rules of labor flexibility, among other measures, constitute an adjustment package agreed by the pro imperialist government Moreno with the IMF in exchange for a loan from the body by 4.300 millions of dollars.
3. Paquetazo in response to the country's roads were cut, They were taken municipalities and governorates, the most important oil wells and occupied 60% road structure was interrupted by demonstrations. numerous clashes with army troops and police occurred, who suffered significant defections and the rebels have reached hostage members of the repressive forces of the State. The uprising occupied by tens of thousands Quito, the capital city, resisting repression unsuccessfully tried to evict them, And unlike previous surveys he had a national character. He did not stop despite the harsh repression that caused seven deaths, hundreds injured and more than 1.300 prisoners who recorded the rows insurrectas.
The uprising was attended by a large sector of workers, surpassing the passivity of their traditional trade union lines, actively participated in the protests. Initially carriers out a national strike that was raised by his traitorous union leadership, then we should mention state workers. Also it should be noted the important participation of women and youth, who played roles in the fight vanguard. Youth composed of university students, secondary, young ni-ni, He had a heroic performance in the first line of confrontation with the repressive forces until the last moment of the fight.
The protests brought the government of Lenin Moreno fully in crisis, forcing him to take refuge in Guayaquil, They occupied for hours headquarters of the National Assembly who never managed to meet, jeopardizing the entire state apparatus. During the days when the uprising took place there were indeed two powers in the country, that of a government and its repressive fully in crisis and defensive forces and indigenous, Workers, women, Young, the Ecuadorian people on the streets, dominating part of the country and paralyzing much of the economic activities.
4. As a result of the uprising was raised fall Moreno. The indigenous movement direction, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), not put it, beyond this or that speech isolated. His goal was to achieve the repeal of Decree 883 which it fixed the increase in fuel prices and the resignation of the ministers responsible for repression. The most important union leadership, nucleate in the United Workers' Front (FUT) He did not call general strike.
5. In this situation of absolute crisis of the capitalist regime Ecuador, international agencies rushed to the aid of the government in order to "regain peace and tranquility" to facilitate "dialogue". Since the OAS, the Episcopal Conference, the governments of the Group of Lima attempted to shore up Lenin Moreno. But the calls for dialogue were accompanied from the Government, with brutal repression measures, the curfew, murders, mass arrests, the presence of paramilitary groups organized by the bourgeoisie Guayaquil.
6. Finally, after 13 days of insurrection, the direction of the CONAIE accepts the call to dialogue achieved in negotiating the repeal, he 15 October, the hated decree of rising fuel. This is a partial victory lifting and from this recoil Moreno, CONAIE withdrew the crackdown of indigenous and agrees to be part of a commission to draft a new decree.
7. This first huge and heroic triumph of the struggle of the Ecuadorian people is a partial achievement of the fight. On the one hand shows the strength of popular mobilization can slow down and make into crisis plans agreed with the IMF, but in turn by the weaknesses of their driving it has not been definitively buried the adjustment paquetazo, dismissed the government disavowed Moreno as he was raised and promoted a government of social organizations in struggle, who dominated much of the country amid the popular uprising.
The clash of indigenous and people of Ecuador Lenin Moreno produced a turnover in the direction of the CONAIE. They stood aside those leaders who held positions in government, to which they were forced to resign, and another section of the leadership took over conducting the survey. While these leaders succeeded the decree was repealed 883, They were unable to organize the fight to overthrow the government of Lenin Moreno as demanded by the people in struggle, let alone to generate an alternative direction mobilized people willing to take over the power in an insurrectionist Ecuador. Jaime Vargas expressions, President of CONAIE, in relation to the aspiration for indigenous autonomous areas within the state administration as the central political aspirations of your driving, explains this great weakness of Indian driving.
8. Hesitations of indigenous leadership have enabled Moreno maneuver to try to skimp obtained the triumph in the streets. While it is holding the intention to advance the other adjustment measures agreed with the IMF, the SNB of a new draft decree stalled with the withdrawal of the CONAIE thereof.
There is no ongoing investigation to punish those responsible for the deaths, wounded and massive violations of human rights committed by the repressive forces. Unlike, They inform us as fellow Ecuadorians, the government is developing numerous acts of persecution and intimidation of social and political leaders. This is the case of the arrest of leaders correístas as prefect Pichincha, Paola Pabón and persecution of Assemblywoman Gabriela Rivadeneira, that has to go into exile. Justice maintains, Besides, a criminal investigation into the leaders of the CONAIE for the temporary detention of repressive agents of the insurrectional movement by.
9. Political forces and leaders who respond to the former president Rafael Correa, promoter of the current presidency of Lenin Moreno, who she was his vice president during his two terms, It was not part of the mobilization and just simply criticizing his former ally, today turned into his archenemy and to demand "immediate elections" in order to reposition.
During his tenure Correa faced indigenous claims. CONAIE today fought and defeated the decree of rising fuel, initially he had supported Moreno in his fight against correísmo.
The current detention and persecution of leaders correístas by the government is unacceptable. We do not recognize any authority to the government and deliverer murderer to judge anyone, let alone opponents.
10. Similarly we reject the prosecution of the leaders of the CONAIE and other social leaders. At the same time we demand an independent investigation by the human rights organizations, about the responsibilities of the dead, wounded and brutal repression, and the need for trial and punishment for their political leaders and materials.
11. The output for the current crisis passes Ecuador, as clearly and he expressed the Ecuadorian people in the recent uprising, expel the IMF and overthrow the government of Lenin Moreno, imposing a separate output of workers, indigenous and popular sectors. the convening of a constituent assembly to reorganize the country on anti capitalist basis is necessary in that regard.
12. To impose this program is more necessary than ever to push and develop the self-organization of workers, students and the heroic indigenous people. Underpin the development of different groupings that have emerged across the country outside of the traditional leaderships. New groupings, at par to require the direction of the CONAIE and the various unions the action plan needed to develop the mobilization, They will develop an alternative address of the Ecuadorian people in struggle, willing to go all the way in the task of overthrowing the government murderer Moreno and break the IMF plans.
13. Ecuadorian people's fight against the IMF and the government applies its adjustment plans, It is part of a global uprising against capitalism to attack living standards and rights of working people, of which the revolution that now heads the Chilean people is the vanguard of this fight in Latin America, and to which we must add the uprisings in Haiti and Puerto Rico, as resistance to Bolsonaro in Brazil, the collapse of Macri in Argentina and Colombia mobilization process. Processes that are part of a global situation in which other peoples from distant regions of the planet, like Lebanon, Iraq, Catalonia, Hong Kong and Ethiopia, They face the attacks of imperialist capitalism placing the mass movement clearly on the offensive.
14. From the International Socialist League (LIS-ISL) we have supported the lifting of the Ecuadorian people. In the countries where we are present we participated in actions against the Ecuadorian embassy demanding Out Moreno, Outside IMF! Our publications and actions were in the service of the triumph of the Ecuadorian people, because defeat Lenin Moreno and IMF, strengthen the struggle of all peoples struggling against imperialist plans adjustment.
15. Ecuadorian insurrection, its enormous achievements, and the weakness of not having her forehead a direction able to take the fight to the end, placed on the agenda an essential task to defeat the adjustment plans, Governments and state institutions in the service of subjugation to imperialist dictates: building a revolutionary socialist alternative of workers and the Ecuadorian people.
Building a revolutionary tool that is able to develop popular mobilization to completely defeat with adjustment plans, capitalist governments that implemented and supported in the development of popular organizations in struggle, impose a government of social organizations of Ecuador, to implement an anti-capitalist program, breaking with the IMF and plans all employers variant pro, and in unity with the Latin American people facing these plans, fights for a socialist Ecuador and Latin America.
October 2019
