Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

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

Dismantling our divisions: craft, industry, and a new society

A discussion of craft and industrial divisions in health care that leads to the debate between the…

Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party, and Anna Mae Aquash of AIM.

No badjacketing: the state wants to kill us; let's not cooperate

An article by the Twin Cities General Defense Committee (GDC) of the Industrial Workers of the World…

The South African Wobblies: The Origins of Industrial Unions in South Africa - John Philips

John Philip’s pioneering, hard-to-get study of syndicalism in South Africa,…

Women members of the IWW lead a march in Manhattan

Letter on the IWW Domestic Workers Union, 1917 - Jane Street

Fascinating letter from the secretary of the domestic workers' section of the Industrial Workers of…

Concrete examples of non labour relations board unions: part III - Phinneas Gage

The third part of a series of concrete examples and very brief summaries of organizations that have…

Some of the wobbly prisoners from the Everett massacre at the county jail, 1917

The Everett massacre, 1916 - Walt Crowley

A short history of the Everett massacre of five members of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union who had gone to support…

Picketers outside Ecology Action

One Big Union and horizontal worker cooperatives in Texas: a story

A brief history of a labour dispute at a non-profit that resulted in the establishment of a co…

The little red song book

PDF version of the "little red songbook": songs to fan the flames of discontent, first published by the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the…

IWW union hall in Walsenburg, 1928 when members rushed to defend it after it was

Blood on the coal: Colorado strike of 1927 - Patrick Murfin

A short history of the great Colorado coal strike of 1927, called by the revolutionary union…

Memorandum on the Bay Area food mart campaign

The Bay Area Food Mart Campaign began in 2009 and concluded in 2015. It was an experiment in reviving some of the IWW's essential revolutionary traditions in the context of the 21st century.

Language workers got Tallents!

The Angry Language Brigade and the London IWW have officially ended their dispute with the Leicester Square School of English and its wage…

A different five-year plan

This article is a response to a piece published by one of my union colleagues on some possible aspirations for the Sheffield Industrial Workers…