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The Revolutionary Workers' League for the Fourth International (LOR-CI) is a Bolivian extreme left Trotskyist political organization founded in 1999.

History
Formed by militant sectors that split from the POR, the LOR-CI opposes the government of Evo Morales and criticizes his idea of building an "Andean capitalism." They are critical of the possibility of reconciling the interests of the working class and the business community, which is why, for example, they called for blank votes in response to the constitutional proposal promoted by the MAS. They participated in the open process in 2003, proposing the formation of a Popular Assembly and asserting that the demands for the nationalization of hydrocarbons under worker and peasant control, as well as a Revolutionary Constituent Assembly, could only be effectively realized by a provisional worker and peasant government of the organizations leading the struggle, supported by departmental and national Popular Assemblies with revocable delegates elected in the fields, mines, factories, companies, neighborhoods, and barracks. They also participated in the 2010-2011 process when Evo Morales promoted an increase in gasoline prices and declared the expulsion of transnational companies necessary; likewise, they were involved in the 2012 strike of healthcare workers who resisted the austerity measures imposed by the MAS government.

In 2013, LOR militants obtained leadership positions in the Huanuni mining union and the COB (Bolivian Workers' Center), holding congresses to establish the Workers' Party (a political formation that old leaders advocated but never materialized) and providing support to the Huanuni miners when they went on strike in May of that year. After the COB elections, the LOR lost its leadership positions due to intimidation by the old bureaucracy, and some of the promoters of the Workers' Party have been harassed by the MAS government. Currently, the LOR-CI is present in unions such as "Aseo Urbano" and the El Alto International Airport, as well as in the Siglo XX and San Simón Major Universities; they also promote the student organization Octubre.

Currently, the LOR-CI collaborates with workers' unions and socialist feminist groups like Pan y Rosas in various parts of Bolivia. One of its most important representatives is Violeta Tamayo, who advocates a Marxist feminism opposed to the official feminism of the current government, the MAS. This has led to repercussions, as the current government has implemented mechanisms to prosecute her.