Paraguay: Long live the march revolution!

BySocialist alternative – LIS Paraguay

The Paraguayan people, fed up with the abuses of the corrupt political caste and the privilege with which they operate between businessmen and landowners, He went out to fight in the streets and ask for the resignation of the government and his cabinet.

The desperate situation of dozens of health workers and family members dead due to lack of medicines and vaccines to combat the coronavirus, the difficulty in accessing education, the loss of thousands of jobs, the repression of the poor peasantry fighting for the land and the waste of 2.000 millions of dollars of foreign debt are the causes that forced the people to protest against the government, achieving first the dismissal of the Minister of Health Mazzoleni.

The people are no longer content with crumbs, The workers want the resignation of Mario Abdo Benitez who, despite the high social rejection it has, He sent the police to suppress the popular rebellion. We denounce before the world that, with tear gas, fire hydrant cars, rubber bullets and the mounted police tried to retreat to the town. They murdered a young fighter, They injured dozens and left a stream of blood running through the streets of Asunción. The people did not retreat, Unlike, The spontaneous self-convocation defeated the repression and those who retreated were the repressive forces. We urge you to break ranks and lower your weapons, because the enemy of the people is the government of the landowners and businessmen, not the working class and those who fight.

We urge the labor unions, left-wing political forces, to high school and university student organizations, to feminist groups, to the self-summoned, to the peasant and indigenous federations and to all the people to call for a great indefinite general strike with street mobilizations until the corrupt government of Mario Abdo Benitez is defeated. The greatest democratic and combative unity is necessary so that the working people triumph and the political castes do not get their way.

The militants of the Socialist Alternative and the International Socialist League are going for an emergency government of the workers and the people, apply a program, an economic plan for social rescue, to call a free constituent assembly, sovereign and democratic to reorganize Paraguay on new bases, without the businessmen, landowners, corrupt and repressive, that is to say, a socialist country with democracy for the working class and the people.

Urgent statement regarding the actions of Mario Abdo's government and his repressive police

The popular mobilization of the day 5 March is the perfect demonstration that the capitalist system in the hands of Mario Abdo and his cabinet no longer gives any more. The very poor management of the COVID-19 pandemic by all the powers of the State and the bourgeois institutions that for a long time have not had any capacity to solve the problems of the innumerable crises that are presented to us; thus leaving an education system and all other institutions; increasingly plunging different families into poverty and precariousness.

Yesterday's mobilization reflected the fear and impotence that Mario Abdo's State has against the spontaneous power of the masses and their discontent., From Socialist Alternative we repudiate the violent and complicit actions of the National Police that protects the interests of the business minority, these without hesitation, With the minimum of friction they went out to repress the protesters at night, with rubber pellets, mounted, tear gas and riot trucks. It is also worth noting that the spontaneous organization of the protesters was able to push back the police on several occasions, who even had to throw “helmets” while they ran from the protesters.; The police could not resist and had to surrender to the force, conviction and cunning of the Paraguayan people.

That is why we invite you to continue mobilizing and coordinating actions with all forces permanently until the entire cabinet of Mario Abdo and himself resign..

Let's organize a general strike with all sectors and prepare a fighting plan to oust Mario Abdo and his entire cabinet!!

For an emergency government of the workers and the people to apply an economic program of social rescue and to call a free Constituent Assembly, sovereign, democratic to reorganize Paraguay on new bases, without the big businessmen, landowners, corrupt and repressive.

So that all the proposed tasks are carried out, let us build together a powerful political alternative for those from below., anticapitalist, ecosocialist, feminist and international.

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