Bolivia : The Rightist Opposition is Growing
Santiago, 2nd December. - [.....] Thus, as things are going on, the Trotskyist POR representatives have been suppressed in the trade union federation, the Central Obrera Boliviana ; and the POR paper Lucha Obrera was not published last week. Bolivia's Foreign Minister, Guevara, has made a declaration in New York that the Nationalist regime is "anti - Communist". The Labour minister in the present cabinet is not a representative of the labour unions, but a representative of the rightist Catholic Action, who is used against the unions by the President.
People are now talking about a new devaluation of the currency, a step which would hit the workers and peasants most of all. The Nationalist regime is frankly turning to the right, and the "Left" is passively waiting for a saviour. The Trotskyist POR will probably pay for its pro - Nationalist policy in the same way that the Stalinists did - with its disintegration and disappearance from the political scene. [.....]
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