Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Content by or about the revolutionary union Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

The Magonista Revolt in Tijuana: A Prelude to the San Diego Free Speech Fight

(excerpt from Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See; The New Press: 2003, by Jim…

Unionism and anti-fascism - Twin Cities General Defense Committee

Statement on Opposing All Oppression from the Twin Cities GDC Local 14 on the importance of fighting…

Montana Wobblies, Antifa Out-Organize Nazis

Report on an antifascist mobilisation in Whitefish, Western Montana, where neo-nazis had called for an armed rally against Jewish residents.

An IWW office after a police raid, 1919

Database of repression of the IWW, 1906-1920

A table detailing hundreds of instances of state and employer repression of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union in the United…

Shooter of unarmed anti-racist walks free; authorities silent

An update on the shooter of the Seattle Anti Fascist.

Fellow Worker and GDC Member Shot at anti-fascist protest in Seattle

On the evening of Friday, January 20th, a comrade of ours was shot in the stomach in the most public…

1909: Missoula Free Speech Fight

History of the first free speech fight conducted by the IWW.

1908-10: Spokane Free Speech Fight

Account of the free speech and anti job sharking campaign carried out by the Spokane Wobblies.

1919: Prison Strikes at Fort Leavenworth

In 1919 the prison population for military prisons had swelled. In response to the pressure and arbitrary sentencing inmates at the Fort…

South African coal miners, 1920s.

The First Globalisation and Transnational Labour Activism in Southern Africa: White Labourism, the IWW, and the ICU, 1904–1934

Lucien van der Walt on transnational labour activism in Southern Africa in the…

Photo at an IWW demonstration

Rebel voices: an IWW anthology

An extensive collection of writings by and about the Industrial Workers of the World union in the US, compiled and edited by Joyce L Kornbluh and…

IWW members

The Wobblies: the story of syndicalism in the United States

A detailed chronicle of the history of the Industrial Workers of the World union in the United…