TROTSKYISTS FREED BY INSURGENT BOLIVIANS :
[The following article has been translated from a special bulletin issued _by Lucha Obrera, publication of the Partido Obrero Revolucionario [PoRT, in La Paz.]
The active participation of the POR; ‘boldly and valiantly with the masses, in the struggle against the murderous government =: of the MNR (we repeated this phrase a thousand times’ ‘when they still held power ) cost our party many casualties. _
In recent weeks, in the interior of the country as well ; as in La Paz, various: activists of the POR fell prisoner or were wounded, In Oruro, “Paulino Joaniquina, general secretary of the "San José" © union, was savagely perseeuted by the political police, the carabineros and the army until in the final week he was imprisoned and brutally beaten. He carried out his duties as a trade-union leader and Trotskyist militant in a disciplined way, fighting at the side of the university students and mobilizing the miners.
In La Paz, on the historic Thursday, “October 29, a whole bri-~ gade of followers of the POR were taken prisoner and sadistically tortured in the ‘jails of the political police. Among them were Com~rades Gabriel Guzmén, Eulogio Sdnchez, Jaime Latorre, Indalecio Nogales. (a factory worker), Armando Ramirez, Laureano Apaza Bautista, Luis Bautista, Carlos N, Silva, mene! zambrana, Jorge Peredo and Ricardo: Sejas. Comrade Nogales, ‘leader at Said, was given the lash for Having brought 200 worksrs from: his plant to the university forces, Comrade Sanchez was wounded in the head and Comrade Guzmdén badly injured by torture inflicted by the thug Menacho in person. Also Comrade Adalid Latorre was imprisoned and beaten by agents of the police, .
All the Trotekyist | commades: were freed when the people fought their way into the shameful building of the political police. We place the names of all these comrades on the Party's Roll of Honor in the struggle against the lackey” of ‘imperialism Paz Estenssoro.
(ose oo THE BATTLES OF "SAN. JOSE" AND SORA-SORA
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The heroic struggles “of the mine workers’ found the militants” of the POR in the front ranks. Thanks to the participation of the
Trotskyists, the mobilization of the miners acquired force and dynamism. - SS -
- The party singles out and congratulates the comrades of the POR in Huanuni, Catavi and Siglo Veinté who fought at Sora-Sora. The captured arms must be guarded and utilized for the organization of an armed party force as part of the Miners Proletarian Army.
‘The battle of Sora-Sora and the attack on the "San José" radio station will go down in history as major symbols of the resistance of the masses, The first was marked by courage and coolness, the second by stubbornness. In both actions.the regiments. defending the tyranny boasted of their might and their modern armaments. - But likewise both: pattles against the bonapartist and restorationist regime of the MNR virtually determined the downfall of the person who wanted to be president for life.
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