Bandera Roja ('Red Flag') was a weekly labour newspaper published from La Paz, Bolivia, between 1926 and 1927.
The people behind Bandera Roja included Óscar Cerruto, Rafael A. Reyeros, Carlos Mendoza Mamani (a tailor, leader of the Federación Obrera del Trabajo union) and Julio M.
[1][3] Some of the articles from Bandera Roja were reproduced in the Latin American organ of the Communist International, La Correspondencia Sudamericana.
Two editors (Ordoñez and Reyeros) were arrested, whilst Reque Lozano, Mendoza Mamani and Cerruto went underground.
A new editorial team was formed after the split, which included Guillermo Gamarra (president of the Uncia Workers Federation).
[6] In 1927 Bandera Roja dismissed government claims of a communist plot to seize power (which supposedly would have involved unions and the Labour Party).