The document points the accusing finger at the International Monetary Fund, which continues to impose its conditions resulting in tremendous upheaval underscored by the recent riots in Venezuela and outbreaks in Argentina and Brazil, increasing levels of unemployment, the desertion of the student population and the renewed spread of epidemics. The commission on economics reviewed developments over the past 5 years and recommended a struggle against privatization and condemned the free market. The campesinos brought up the question of depenalizing the cultivation of coca, which provides a subsistence livelihood for some 122,000 people. Attempts to stop the cultivation of the leaf is seen as capitulation to the hypocritical policies of the United States and an encroachment on Bolivia's national independence. Active resistance on the part of the masses is not enough, and must pass into subversive resistance that will form concrete instances of popular rebellion.
Subversive resistance consists in destroying the controlled democratic order.
Active resistance has to involve all the people, and this has been lacking. The election of the COB's new leadership revealed deep divisions within the organization. The miners' walkout seriously threatens the COB's unity at a crucial time, and the delegations of campesinos and other sectors vowed to convoke an extraordinary congress to resolve the situation. For its part, the miners assured that their delegation's actions would be discussed by the rank and file. Organizing is Focus of 1992 IWW Assembly Eighty-seven members of the Industrial Workers of the World from throughout the U.S., Canada, Australia and Brazil gathered at a rural campground north of Ann Arbor, Michigan over the Labor Day weekend for the union's annual General Assembly.