We have translated the following article from the May 1-15 issue of Combate, organ of the POR (Partido Obrero Revolucionario-Revolutionary Workers party, the Bolivian section of the Fourth International)).
The plenum of the expanded Central Committee of the POR met during the Easter holidays in the mining district of Huanuni. The meeting was projected in conjunction with activities to reinforce the party organs at all levels, clearing up the difficulties and repairing the damage done by the ferocious repression the movement suffered in the period after January 1967, when it was outlawed.
The plenum, which was presided over by the general secretary of the POR, Comrade Hugo González Moscoso, adopted the following agenda:
2. The national situation. The characterization of the Tórres government, the position of the army and its interlocking with the civilian legal structure. The mass movement and its limitations. The left and the deviations to be combated. The permanent danger of a coup d'etat. Perspectives.
3. Guerrilla warfare. Balance sheet and experiences. The POR's conception of revolutionary war.
The discussion on these points upheld the line developed and the documents drawn up by the POR leadership, as well as clarifying and evaluating the experiences of the past four years and elaborating on them. At the conclusion of the political discussion, the following recommendations were made to the party leadership:
1. To intensify political work aimed at the masses in order to win them away from reformist influence and promote the emergence of truly revolutionary leaderships.
2. To intervene, following the above guideline, in all organizations arising out of the workers' movement, no matter what their limitations.
3. To stimulate the workers to arm by taking the initiative to form armed detachments at the trade-union level.
4. To intensify at the same time the party's military work and strengthen its military apparatus for the future actions that will be intimately linked
levels.
The expanded Central Committee will meet again in Mav to prenare for Will meet again in May to prepare for the next party conference. This meeting will discuss a political thesis on the situation and a document on the conception of revolutionary and guerrilla warfare in Bolivia.
In the course of the discussion on the Argentinian situation, the Central Committee of the Bolivian POR voted to send warm greetings to the Argentinian Trotskyist comrades who, arms in hand, have been shaking the supports of the "gorillas" and the Argentinian oligarchy and opening up the road for the socialist revolution. It was voted to support all the actions of the PRT and the ERP on the basis that we consider them part of the great struggle we are waging to liberate Latin America from imperialist and capitalist exploitation.
The plenum voted to send greetings to Comrade Ana María Villarreal, who was wounded in an action in Córdoba and later jailed, as well as to all the comrades in the prisons of the oligarchy.
The Central Committee of the POR also voted to send greetings to the Fourth International, hailing the extraordinary gains being achieved in Europe. Especially warm greetings were sent to the militant Ligue Communiste [Communist League, the French section of the Fourth International] which has just held a successful congress.
Notes
1. The report on the work of the Fourth International. The present stage of the revolutionary process in Latin America and the role played by the sections of the Fourth International. The situation in Argentina and the struggle being waged by our comrades of the PRT (Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores— Revolutionary Workers party] and the ERP /Ejercito Revolucionario del Pueblo- People's Revolutionary Army].