IWW
Articles by and about the revolutionary syndicalist union the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
The Stopwatch and the Wooden Shoe: Scientific Management and the Industrial Workers of the World
Mike Davis on the introduction of Taylorist management techniques to break up workers solidarity, and the response of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union.
TAYLOR AND THE "ART OF SWEATING"[1]
Fort Worth IWW
Wobblies organizing in Fort Worth Texas recently had local Starbucks Workers Union go public- report.
The Panther City General Membership Branch based out of Fort Worth Texas is actively participating in undercover union campaigns within the food service industry. Recently (December 18th 2009) employees at a local Starbucks went public with their union announcing their alliance with the Starbucks Workers Union and the Industrial Workers of the World.
The Seattle General Strike of 1919
The detailed official history of the strike, in which the city was taken over by the workers, by the History Committee of the General Strike Committee, March 1919 with a preface from Root and Branch in 1972.
ROOT&BRANCH PREFACE
Sabotage - Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
An important historical text, published by the Industrial Workers of the World union outlining the nature and potential benefits of industrial sabotage.
The Interest in sabotage in the United States has developed lately on account of the cage of Frederic Sumner Boyd in the state of New- Jersey, as an aftermath of the Paterson strike. Before his arrest and conviction for advocating sabotage, little or nothing was known of this particular form of labor tactic in the United States.
A Country Considered to Be Free - New Zealand and the IWW
"Towards a Transnational Study of New Zealand Links with the Wobblies", an essay by Mark Derby which looks at New Zealand's relationship with the IWW.
In the 1890s a New Zealand watersiders’ leader announced to his members, “We have no flag, we have no country.”[1] He was declaring the internationalism of labor at a time when patriotism and imperialism then characterized the population.
Ridge, Lola: anarchist and poet
A brief biography of Lola Ridge, New Zealand anarchist and poet by Mark Derby.
Her published collections of poetry included defending Tom Mooney, Sacco & Vanzetti, and recalling the death of Frank Little.
Review - Dancin' in the Streets - Red and Black Notes
Red and Black Notes review of Dancin' in the Streets editted by Franklin Rosemont and Charles Radcliffe.
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 2004.
On the face of it, there doesn't seem to be much in common between the Industrial Workers ' of the World's revolutionary unionism and the surrealists' project of recovery of the unconscious, Yet, as Franklin Rosemont, the co-editor of this collection notes, he and his friends joined the IWW because it was the only group around which wasn't boring.
Sebastian San Vicente 1896- 1938? aka Pedro Sanchez aka El Tampiqueno
A short biography of Spanish anarchist Sebastian San Vicente, active in the USA, Cuba and Mexico and hero of a novel by Paco Ignacio Taibo
The Shadow of a Shadow
Olympic Dream or Workers' Nightmare: An Inside Report on Health and Safety Conditions London 2012 Olympic Site
This report documents and critically analyses the working conditions of construction workers on the Stratford City development site of the 2012 Olympic Games. We base our findings entirely on the accounts of anonymous IWW and non-IWW construction workers employed there.
North of the border: a look at anarchism in Scotland
Rob Ray interviews Declan of the Alba Anarchist Federation and Nick Durie of Praxis Glasgow in this 2008 feature for Freedom newspaper.
Scotland has had a strong tradition of class struggle. Are there many links between today’s younger and older radicals?
