Bolivia - February 25, 2025

Factory workers of La Paz take over the Ministry of Labor to demand the resignation of the minister, and they declared themselves on a state of emergency

Today, Tuesday, the factory workers of La Paz, fed up by the attacks of the slave-owning employers with the support of the Ministry of Labor, who fires and attacks both the union rank and file and its leaders, trampling on union immunity, protested and took over the Ministry to demand the resignation of the minister.

Workers from different factories were present at this day of struggle, and there was also solidarity from the grassroots workers of the Urban Cleaning Service of the Trébol company, who held a vigil until the afternoon, as their demands are the same as those of the factory workers. Open the road to working class unity!

Tomorrow, the leaders of the Federación Fabril and the COD of La Paz will meet with government representatives. If there is no solution to their request, they will radicalize the measures, emphasizing that they are in a state of emergency.

Out with the Ministry of Labour and the bosses, from our workers' organisations!
To fight against the bosses and the government's attack that is putting the full weight of the crisis on the workers, attacking wages, increasing the high cost of living, with more unemployment: We must unite all the sectors in struggle! We must unite the workers, the unemployed and the poor peasantry in a single list of demands!

Let's recover all our workers' organizations from the hands of the traitorous union bureaucracy, to put them at the service of our struggle!