mented and transformed the conditions of work." (p106)
This is a familiar pattern, aspects of which can be seen in advanced capitalist countries as well. But it leads to a very difficult conclusion:
"The new working class has, so far, found it extremely difficult to project itself as an active social subject with sufficient personality to launch convincing mobilisations, to generate demands that motivate large numbers, or with even less success, to put forward practical proposals that incorporate the demands of other social sectors."
Anyone who can put forward a global, internationallyapplicable, solution to this problem that the authors raise In this the Cochabamba struggle itself provides lots of clues, but also lots of problems and imponderables. In the first place the leadership role of the Fabriles, the organising centre of the factory workers, is striking.
Only they had the experience and the organisation to provide the leadership - and indeed the infrastructure in terms of offices, phones etc -that was need to get the Coordinadora going.
But note that the Fabriles was not the local arm of a bureaucratised national leadership structure that could have intervened and demobilised the struggles. constant experiments to construct the type of fighting
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