European Young Socialists Back Coke Boycott

international | worker & community struggles and protests | news report Tuesday March 22, 2005 19:30 by Cian - Labour

An umbrella of 33 organisations in 25 countries has joined the call for a boycott of Coca Cola goods as the boycott continues to spread internationally. The resolution was put forward by Labour Youth and comes after the recent news that the third University of Rome has kicked Coke off campus. The international campaign in defence of workers rights in Colombia and farming communities in India is growing fast.

The ECOSY (European Young Socialists) bi-annual conference concluded on Sunday March 20th in Cascais near Lisbon after 4 days of motions, amendments, and - resolutions significantly the Labour Youth resolution on the Killer Coke campaign was passed with a large majority.

ECOSY is an umbrella organisation of 33 Socialist, Labour and Social Democratic youth parties in 25 European countries. It also has 8 associate member organisations and 17 observer organisations stretching as far as Russia and Israel. Several of the member organisations have memberships well into the hundreds of thousands making ECSOY one of the largest organisations in the world to back the boycott to date.

The resolution that was passed calls on ECOSY to promote and support the call of Sinaltrainal to campaign for the boycott of Coca Cola and all its products.

For more information see www.killercoke.org and www.indiaresource.org