WORKERS GOVERNMENT IN BOLIVIA
La Paz, Bolivia
At the beginning of April, the left wing of Juan Lechfin's Partido Revolucionario de Izquierda Nacionalista [PRIN] staged a celebration in honor of the party's first anniversary. Invitations were sent to the Communist party, the Partido Obrero Revolucionario [the Bolivian section of the Fourth International], the group headed by Guillermo Lora which also claims to be Trotskyist, and some smaller groupings.
The meeting was held at the headquarters of the COB [Central Obrera Boliviana] and the hall was packed.
A leader of the PRIN spoke on the need for the left to unite in order to struggle for working-class power. He criticized the way
power was turned over to the bourgeoisie when the revolution broke out on April 9, 1952. He then invited representatives of the other parties to take the floor. ..
A representative of the Communist party spoke first and was well received, However, the warmest’ response went to Hugo Gonzdles Moscoso who spoke powerfully for working-class unity in face of the Military Junta and for militant struggle for the formation of a Workers and Peasants Government. Gonzdles is head of the POR.
A number of trade-union leaders took the floor to emphasize the same theme.
The meeting ended with the shouting of slogans for a united front of the working-class parties, for a workers government, and against military dictatorship and Yankee imperialism.
The speeches were taken down on tape and later broadcast over the Continental station.
Neither Lechfn nor the other petty-bourgeois leaders of the PRIN attended the celebration.