The International Seminar “Capitalism Crisis, Re-colonisation and Grassroots Popular Alternatives” was held in the city of La Paz, Bolivia between the 1-3rd of July 2009.

The organisers: Presidencia Alterna del Parlamento Latinoamericano; Guardianes Latinoamericanos Para La Defensa del Medio Ambiente y el Turismo Humano (Venezuela); Bancada Parlamentaria del MAS (Bolivia); PSOL, Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (Brasil);Centro de Estudios Sociales José Carlos Mariátegui (Venezuela);Latin American Solidarity Network (LASNET-Australia) www.latinlasnet.org; Asociación Campesina Valle Del Río Cimitarra (Colombia); Cátedra Che Guevara-Zarate Willca (Bolivia); Semanario La Época (Bolivia); Periódico El Quinto (Chile); Periódico Escena Contemporánea (Perú-Bolivia- Chile); Prensa De frente (Argentina); Revista Negación de la Negación (Chile); Coordinadora Nacional de Unión de Asociaciones Gremiales (Bolivia); Federación Sindical de Mujeres Agricultores de Ixiamas (Bolivia); Federación Sindical de Productores Agrícolas de Ixiamas (Bolivia); Frente Nacional Campesino Ezequiel Zamora (Venezuela), Patria Socialista-Movimien to Guevarista (Bolivia); Juventudes MAS-IPSP (Bolivia); Radio Constelación 106.9 FM (Cuzco-Perú); Revista Mariátegui (Perú); Federación Regional de Gremiales Palos Blancos “Alto Beni” (Bolivia); Vía Campesina Brasil; Federación de Trabajadores del Comercio por Cuenta Propia (El Alto-Bolivia) ; Central Obrera Regional Yacuiba (Gran Chaco-Bolivia); Marea Socialista - Caracas (Venezuela); Página web www.redtinku. com (Bolivia); Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria, MIR (Chile); Comité Laboral Socialista José Tirado – Raúl Rodas (Bolivia); Frente Popular Dario Santillán (Argentina); Café Semilla Juvenil (La Paz-Bolivia) ; Jóvenes ASOFAMD; Red Ecológica de Chile; Manuel Cabalga de Nuevo (Chile); Coordinadora de Trabajadores Desocupados (CTD) “Anibal Veron” (Argentina); Frente Territorial 26 de junio (Argentina); Cátedra Libre de Soberanía Alimentaria – UNLP (Argentina); Centro de Estudios Francisco Bilbao (Chile); Movimiento Patriótico Manuel Rodriguez (Chile); Comité Multidisciplinario de Profesionales del MAS-IPSP (Bolivia); Unión Nacional de Expresos y Exiliados Políticos de Bolivia – Luis Machicado Raya, secretario nacional de organización; Productores Lecheros del Altiplano Paceño de Lapas (Bolivia) - Eusebio Quito; Juan Nicastro – Unión de Asambleas Ciudadanas de Argentina; Taira Stanley – Movimiento la Juventud Kuna (Panamá); Eulogio Chino Poma - Organizaciones Sociales Achacachi Aymara; Boris Iván Mitendo, periodista; Juan Carlos Schulze Muñoz (Bolivia); Rodrigo Quinallata Laura (Bolivia); Franklin Cruz Alcón (Aymara-Bollivia); And representatives from Movimiento Sin tierra de Brasil(Brazil Landless Movement), La Coordinadora Continental Bolivariana de Venezuela, Asociacion Campesina del Valle del Rio Cimitarra (ACVC) Colombia, de Nuestra America, Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria de Chile (MIR), Frente Patriotico Manuel Rodriguez de Chile (FPMR), Organizacion Manuel Cabalga de Nuevo de Chile, La Red Ecologica de Chile, Red de Amigos de Italia, Red de Solidaridad con los Pueblos Latinoamericanos de Australia “Latin American Solidarity Network (LASNET); del Peru, Bolivia y Venezuela, Movimiento al Socialismo MAS de Bolivia, Movimiento Quebracho de la Argentina, Asambleas ciudadanas de Argentina, Frente Popular Dario Santillan de Argentina, and diplomatic representatives from the progressive governments of Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Bolivia.

During these three days all these organisations and movements were sharing ideas, experiences and struggles inside their own countries against capitalism.

Discussing capitalism crisis and its relationship with new plans of Latin America recolonisation through Mega projects such us The Plan Colombia, Puebla, Panama and the most recently IIRSA which attempt to destroy a vast area of the ecological planet reserves, like the Amazons and many indigenous communities, as well incrementing the plunder,humiliation and exploitation of Latin American people.

In our continent the Capitalist elite is attempting with these new plans to give new energy to the decadent capitalism and give continuity to the exploitation of poor people, taking workers rights and assimilating the indigenous communities.

The International Seminar will be very significant for the poor people and indigenous communities of the Latin American continent, where many grassroots organisations gather together to discuss and planned new action of struggles and coordination, this seminar also strength the links between social, popular grassroots movements in struggles with the international solidarity.

The Latin American Solidarity Network (LASNET) from Australia assisting to the international seminar take a huge responsibility to promote, and coordinate the solidarity and support with all the organisations attending to the seminar, at the same time many of this organisations confirmed their participation during the third Latin American And Asia Pacific solidarity gathering which will be held in Melbourne Australia 25-26 October 2009, we hope that many social and political organisations from Asia Pacific will attend the gathering with the objective of strength our struggles and ideas against capitalism.

The last declaration-resolution of this International Seminar included a resolution opposing the military coup in Honduras and calling for a restoration of Zelaya's government and the respect of the popular civil and human rights of the people in Honduras in resistance to the illegal authorities. Other issue mention in the resolution is our support and solidarity with peasant people of Valle de Cimittara against the Colombian government repression over their communities. The resolution will be published soon as is traslated in our web.

For LASNET this Seminar marked a new beginning in our commitments with Grassroots political and social movements in struggle in Latin America, and strength our idea of building bridges of solidarity with Australia and Asia Pacific struggles.

Hope we can still count on you in these new challenges of solidarity with poor people and indigenous communities in Latin America.

join our effort, there is to much to do....

Lucho From LASNET
La Paz Bolivia
9 July 2009