Ecuador: The FDLP-EC Calls for a Rebellious, Internationalist, and Ideological Struggle-Oriented May Day
The FDLP-EC denounces the country’s severe political, social, and economic crisis as “one of the most critical moments the country has faced in recent years,” and calls for a combative and anti-imperialist May Day. It describes a landscape of “hospital crisis, deterioration of education, insecurity, high unemployment, layoffs of workers, especially in the health sector, and disregard for the ‘will of the people,’” compounded by “persecution of popular activists, environmentalists, trade unionists, and any organization or demonstration opposing Noboa’s fascist regime.” The latter is occurring within the context of a growing reactionary shift in “the repressive apparatus of the old State.”
The FDLP-EC denounces an increasingly evident direct intervention by the repressive services of U.S. imperialism in cooperation with the European Union and Europol, a security memorandum signed with Argentina, and “cooperation” and various mechanisms of intervention by Israel in matters of security and intelligence. Thus, the FDLP-EC explains that “we have a country literally occupied by the most reactionary forces on the planet; by the most criminal, genocidal, and despicable forces in the world.”
To explain the escalation of repression and the capitulation to imperialism, the FDLP-EC points out that previous governments, such as that of Rafael Correa, introduced reforms that criminalized popular organizing and persecuted social movements. Furthermore, the State created parallel organizations to pit them against popular organizations, and ultimately, “the government and the State pitted masses against masses.” But these attacks were not carried out solely by the Correa administration; they continued under other governments such as those of Moreno, Lasso, and now Noboa.
In the current context, there are organizations like Unidad Popular, which, although they are opportunistic and focused on electoral gains, maintain a discourse they pass off as “revolutionary” and “contribute to the bureaucratization of the people’s struggles and to revolutionary demobilization.” The FDLP-EC defines Unidad Popular as revisionist and opportunist, but explains that within its ranks there are honest, critical, and well-intentioned elements. And for this reason, they call on those militants to reconsider their position and join the democratic path.
The FDLP-EC calls for making this May Day “a day of rebellion and anti-imperialism” that takes a clear stand against “the old State, fascism, electoral opportunism, and all forms of imperialist intervention.” It also calls for making it a stage for two-line struggle, “an ideological struggle.” The FDLP-EC concludes by reaffirming the need for a revolutionary line linked to “the people’s war, to New Democracy as part of the World Proletarian Revolution, and to the conquest of communism,” and concludes with the following slogans:
“FOR A REBELLIOUS AND INTERNATIONALIST MAY DAY!
FOR A MAY DAY THAT STRENGTHENS THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN WORKERS, PEASANTS, AND THE PEOPLE!
LONG LIVE THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST FRONT OF ECUADOR!
LONG LIVE THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEAGUE!
LONG LIVE THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST LEAGUE!”
Read the full statement of the FDLP-EC here:
