Colombia: Coca Cola is Drenched with Workers’ Blood

On July 20, 2001, 20 years ago today, a group of unions filed a lawsuit against the Coca Cola company, accusing Coca Cola’s Colombian subsidiary and business affiliates of using paramilitary death squads to murder, torture, kidnap and threaten union leaders at the company’s bottling plants. The suit was linked to the murder of union […]

What is Patriotism? by Emma Goldman

On the Fourth of July, the politicians and the corporate media will celebrate their version of the past. It will again be marked by calls for patriotism, and it will be used to justify U.S. policies of domination around the globe — at least that’s how those in power like to use this holiday. For […]

Supreme Court Reminds Us That The Bosses Own The Law

On June 23 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to give the farm owners the right to bar union organizers from their lands. This is nothing new, the courts have a history of cutting away at workers’ rights when they think the workers are too weak to fight back.

France – Elections Are Over, But Our Anger Is Not!

The government is hesitating because it is caught between two fires – the need to show its electorate and the bosses that it is taking back the initiative, and the fear of reigniting a dynamite stick – social struggles. The abstention disrupted their well-oiled electoral system. But it will soon be forgotten.