1919: The Seattle general strike A general strike of 100,000 workers, which saw the city shut down and all essential services provided under workers' control.
The Lawrence textile strike, 1912 - Sam Lowry A short history of the strike of 20,000 textile workers, mostly women and girls who included native and immigrant workers, which won big…
IWW pickets Edinburgh Starbucks Members of the IWW picketed a Starbucks in Edinburgh yesterday. A short report of the picket follows.
McGuckin, Henry - Memoirs of a Wobbly An important contribution to the history of the Industrial Workers of the World. A superb account by a rank'n'file Wobbly organiser; on the road,…
Heatwave Magazine - UK, 1960s Texts about and from 1966 British magazine Heatwave, which was linked to American Surrealists and radical unionists.
Sabotage and striking on the job - Louis Adamic Louis Adamic immigrated to the United States from Yugoslavia at age 14 and was naturalized in 1918. This essay describes his experiences as a…
A migrant worker joins the Wobblies - Henry Pfaff Henry Pfaff tells his story of how we came to join the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in the 1910s.
US: Shattuck Cinema workers are going union Landmark Shattuck Cinema workers are fed up. Years of bad hours, poor pay, a hostile work environment and the demoralsing treatment from theatre…
Wilckens, Kurt Gustav, 1886-1923 A short biography of German-born anarchist Kurt Gustav Wilckens, who assassinated the man responsible for the deaths of 1,500 workers, and whose…