May 2000

Ecuador's new beginning

The Republic of Ecuador finds itself subject to the most severe social, economic, political, and moral crisis of its history. Neoliberalism, applied by recent governments in an irrational form and with a high dose of corruption, has devastated Ecuadoran society, relegating the majority of the population to poverty, hunger, unemployment, crime, and social decomposition.

Anti-human capitalism, arrogantly arising on the pedestal of these dirty and vile conditions, has achieved dominance of us all. Men throw themselves into a mindless race in the pursuit of money, irrespective of how many are run over along the way.

All search enthusiastically to satisfy themselves with material goods, because their happiness depends on it. In the conflict between to have and to be, to have has triumphed, which is the basis of the most irrational of political systems. Meanwhile the human being, the historical Subject, from whose hand flows all wealth, has been abandoned, alienated, exploited, converted to a slave.

In our country capitalism has cracked its whip with the greatest violence, carrying the dreams of freedom and progress, of longing for human realization, to the terrain of the impossible.

Faced with this desolate panorama, we as Ecuadoran workers have considered it necessary to organize ourselves in a party that in the political arena will defend our historic interests. For this reason we have formed the glorious Partido de los Trabajadores (Workers Party), which brings together the best leaders of social organizations, the "deeper layers," and looks towards forming a philosophic conception profoundly rooted in Marxist Humanism.

Our organization is being built forcefully, created in a space where there is a search for political identity among the proletariat, thanks to the experience of work, organization, intellectual formation and struggle.

We consider ourselves part of the world Marxist Humanist movement, and in the interests of creating the strongest bonds of cooperation to bring the "new continent of thought" to the masses, we believe it's necessary to consolidate the unity of all fraternal organizations of the world.

Our invitation is to the creation of a larger and more solid movement, extending our relationships towards all parts of the globe.

-Hector Valdiviezo