Beer drinkers and big beer corporations have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as working people are forced to buy cheap disgusting excuses for beer, while the owners of the big beer corporations sip on the latest microbrew. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until beer drinkers organize as a class, take possession of the means of fermentation and establish worker-run breweries.
We find that the consolidation of breweries into fewer and fewer hands makes the brewer trade unions unable to cope with the ever growing power of the big beer corporations. These trade unions foster a state of affairs which allows one set of beer drinkers to be pitted against another set of beer drinkers, thereby helping defeat one another in the price wars. Moreover, the trade unions aid the big beer corporations to mislead brewery workers into the belief that they have something in common with them.
These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all the drinkers of one beer, or all beers if necessary, cease beer drinking whenever a strike or lockout is in on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all.
Instead of the conservative motto, “freeze beer prices,” we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, “abolition of the big beer corporations.”
It is the historic mission of beer drinkers to do away with big beer corporations. The army of production and consumption must unite, not only for the everyday struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By making our own beer, making it good, and drinking it ourselves, we are forming a new society within the shell of the old.
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