The CWV won't look the present situation in Mexico in the face. Anita presents her views as Leninism, so this provides an opportunity to take a look at Lenin's theory of democratic revolution . I point out that Anita not only obliterates the Marxist distinction between democratic and socialist revolutions, but also the views she is putting forward don't make communist sense even in a democratic revolution . Lenin emphasizes repeatedly the need to to build up the independent socialist movement of the working class even while participating wholeheartedly in a democratic revolution and rendering zealous support to the peasant revolutionary movement . Anita also presents the liberal bourgeoisie as a supporter of the peasant struggle for land, while Lenin presents it as betraying that struggle .
General strike shakes up Ecuador .
An article by Pete Brown discusses the crisis in Ecuador in early February this year . The working class rose up to oppose the brutal austerity measures put forward by President Abdala Bucaram and forced him out of office . The American media made a joke of it, painting the president as a weirdo who styled himself El Loco and who was voted mentally incompetent when the Ecuadorian congress wanted to get rid of him . The media focused on Bucaram's antics and played down the class struggle . Bucaram had gotten elected with the largest margin in Ecuador's history with populist rhetoric against the austerity program of the previous government .