TO ALL! TO ALL! TO ALL!

    On February 2^nd the bourgeois authorities of Ecuador have declared the State of Emergency in the country, and are developing a campaign of terror against activist of the left and union movement.
    On January 30^th Luis Villacis, the president of the Patriotic Front of Ecuador, Antonio Vargas, the president of the CONAIE were arrested without charges. During the first days of February more than 700 activist of the left and union movement have been jailed. The bourgeois authorities are exercising mass terror on the people of Ecuador.
    The peaceful people of Ecuador has been forced to struggle in the streets of Ecuador by misery and injustice. On February 7^th a general strike will be held.
    We demand the Government of Ecuador to liquidate immediately the State of Emergency in the country. The State of Emergency is meant to suppress the legitimate struggle of the people of Ecuador for its rights.
    We demand to halt immediately the repression against the exploited masses by the bourgeois regime of Ecuador.
    We demand the immediate liberation of all activists of the left and union movement now in jail.
    We express our solidarity with the struggle of the exploited masses of Ecuador and support the general strike to be held on February 7^th.

Anatolii Pizhov - Secretary of international relations within the Executive Committee of the Federation of Workers Unions of Russia «Defense of Labor»

Russia, Leningrad,
February 4^th 2001