unification of the POR corresponds to the needs of the Bolivian revolution on the road to overcoming the present crisis in leadership, and to the deepest aspirations of the masses in their struggle to forge a solid vanguard capable of leading them to power, defeating imperialism and its national servants.
(5) The Partido Obrero Revolucionario will act in accordance with the following line:
(a) Fight with all means against the Military Junta which has inaugurated a fascist regime aiming at physically destroying the trade-union, political and labor organizations, while at the same time annulling democratic rights, lowering wages, increasing unemployment, etc., etc. The POR will struggle shoulder to shoulder with the Bolivian people in defense of their social conquests and their interests.
(b) The present fascism is nothing but the accentuation of
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the totalitarian tendencies of the right which were part of the Movimientista* regimes which ended up prostrate in face of imperialism.
(c). The strategic objective of our struggle is nothing other. than. establishing a government of the. Bolivians themselves; that is, a workers and peasants government, which presupposes an ‘alliance of the exploited of the cities and ‘the mines and fields. Loe
- .€a) The evolution of national policy and the presence of a Military Junta in power has imposed and will continue to impose an. -armed struggle by the masses against the military hierarchy, the unmitigated instrument of imperialism.
(6) In view of this, the POR as a united party, calls on all the Marxist Leninists, the Trotskyists, and all the workers in the. country, to support the Trotskyist unification and to energetically — support the growth and strengthening of the POR.
La Paz, February 17, 1966 Filimén Escébar a oo SO Hugo Gonzalez Moscoso a On instructions from PARTIDO OBRERO REVOLUCIONARTO Guillermo Lora ... PARTIDO OBRERO REVCLUCIONARIO
*Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario [Revolutionary Nationalist — Movement] of which Paz Estenssoro was the leading representative.