Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

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

Building Working-Class Defense Organizations: An Interview with the Twin Cities GDC

First of May Anarchist Alliance interviewed Erik D., Secretary of Twin Cities IWW-General Defense…

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn addresses strikers in Paterson, 1913

The rebel girl: an autobiography, my first life 1906-26

An epic firsthand account of women and the working class in the early years of the 20th century by…

The origins of socialist thought in Japan - John Crump

Socialism first gained a major foothold in Japan after the revolution and the subsequent Meiji…

To escape Trump's America, we need to bring the militant labor tactics of 1946 back to the future

The last general strike in the US was in Oakland in 1946. That year there were 6…

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Workers on the experience of work: Review article - 'Lines of Work'

A review by Aufheben of Recomposition's book Lines of Work: Stories of Jobs and Resistance.

Concessions: How to Beat Them

Leaflet issued by the Chicago Branch, Industrial Workers of the World

1975 Tacoma-Olympia IWW outreach foldover

Published by the Tacoma-Olympia Industrial Workers of the World, November 1975

Crystal-gazing the amber fluid and other Wobbly poems

A short book of poetry by anarchist artist Carlos Cortez, a long-time member of the Industrial…

"I barely survived on Chicago-Lake Liquors wages": an account of a campaign

An account by Juan Conatz of an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) campaign at a liquor store in…

Wages so low you'll freak - Mike Pudd'nhead

A book by Mike Pudd'nhead about his experience working at Jimmy Johns in the Twin Cities, Minnesota and attempting to organize a union with the…

Marxism in a lost century: a biography of Paul Mattick - Gary Roth

Retells the history of the radical left during the twentieth century through the words and deeds of…

Review Essay: Carlo Tresca Remembered – Sam Dolgoff

Originally published in "Libertarian Labor Review" # 6 1989