We publish an unofficial translation of a document by the comrades of the FDLP-EC from Ecuador.

Lasso's regime is corrupt. Of course, just being a banker makes him corrupt.

A banker makes him corrupt. His mere fact of owning the means of production and usurping the labour of the workers already makes him corrupt. So nothing new under the sun.

The problem is that this kind of "novelty" is used in one way or another by opportunism to divert the attention of the class and the masses from their real tasks and responsibilities for the revolutionary transformation of society.

For more than two centuries we have heard that the rulers steal, that they are corrupt, murderous and repressive. In the same period, we have seen leaders of all kinds lie and bargain with the blood and struggle of the people.

The masses have voted since 1830 and the results have always been against them, even when their candidates have triumphed. Why? Because the elections change nothing except to preserve the old state, to print certain reforms which are of little or no use to the majority; because those who govern us use the state apparatus to satisfy their economic and political aspirations or to resolve the contradictions they have among themselves, between comprador bourgeoisie and bureaucratic bourgeoisie, nothing more.

The elections themselves are also a fraud, because they delude us into thinking that with them we are deciding the direction of the country and our lives. Nothing could be more false than that!

The opportunists and revisionists, the chimerical leaders of the people who urge the masses to vote, reckon with the election results; they throw numbers around, they judge that because they have a certain majority of votes in certain provinces, cantons or municipalities, they already have "political control" over these masses, that those who voted for their candidate already have a political or social consciousness of what is happening in the country and what tasks they have to perform to solve fundamental problems, like that of power.

Nevertheless, this is a deception. The masses vote because they are alienated, and they vote for a particular candidate because he is better able to influence the - quite legitimate - aspirations of the people.

If Lasso is overthrown, that's fine, but another will come, with small shoes and different coloured T-shirts, whether yellow, red or even rainbow, he will do the same, he will position himself, he will steal, he will act with the pain of the people and he will not contribute at all to their necessary emancipation.

We have already seen it with Correaism, in Peru with Castillo, Morales in Bolivia, Petro in Colombia, nothing changes under the sun with the elections, the only thing that will allow us to completely and absolutely revolutionise this old society that is outdated and subjugated to the interests of imperialism and the ruling classes will be the revolution of New Democracy, the uninterrupted transition to socialism. Without these goals, without the war of the peoples, we will have nothing.

In these days we are witnessing the confrontation of the two factions of the big bourgeoisie. The corrupt of the bureaucratic bourgeoisie, the thieves, the oppressors, are shouting in the face of Lasso, the representative of the comprador bourgeoisie: "thief", "corrupt", and a large part of the masses are being blinded by this great circus.

We communists don't need digital media, the Assembly or the Attorney General's Office to know and understand that every regime is corrupt, thieving, repressive and murderous; we don't eat fairy tales with the revolutionary and "untainted" discourse of Correism, let alone Pachakuticism, or is it that Tibán, Quishpe and others have no responsibility for Lasso's presence in government? not to mention the Unidad Popular, other scumbags who shuttle back and forth between one bourgeoisie and the other, looking for a way to settle into the bureaucratic state apparatus.

Calls for impeachment ring out in the Plaza Grande. The opportunists are already starting their election campaign. Yaku Pérez is campaigning, so is Iza, nothing else is happening in the other political tents, should we get involved in this game?

The old state is decaying, it is rotten, infiltrated by drug trafficking and criminality; meanwhile, the "saviours of the fatherland" offer to solve the problems from which the great majority suffers, in exchange, of course, for a vote, in exchange for taking sides with one side or the other of the big bourgeoisie.

We cannot remain apathetic, we cannot be on the side of the observers, timid and unresponsive. We must intensify efforts to destroy all this rot, to bury it, it is urgent to strengthen our peasant, worker and popular forces; it is urgent to unite the forces among those who agree ideologically, in the correct reading of the contradictions that exist in the country, in their organisation, forms of struggle and objectives; a unity that can only be given in ideology and not in circumstantial agreements that become banal.

Strategic inflexibility, tactical flexibility must be the watchword. Strive for revolution, but not for reform. It is necessary to build a united front which is against elections, against imperialism and for the people, which is not led by the usual leaders, by the contaminated, the vain, those who have a fine personalist calculation, but is led by the proletariat whose ultimate aim is the destruction of the old bourgeois landlord power.

DO NOT FALL FOR THE DIVERSIONARY GAME PRESENTED TO US BY THE ASSEMBLY AND THE INTER-BOURGEOIS CONTRADICTIONS.

REGARDLESS OF WHAT HAPPENS TO THE LASSO REGIME AND WHO SUCCEEDS IT, OUR TASK IS TO FIGHT TIRELESSLY TO CONQUER POWER.

ONLY WITH STRUGGLE CAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS BE WON!