Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

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

Organize cartoon

Business unionism vs revolutionary unionism - Dave Neal

A piece on the decline of business unions and the opportunities this has opened up for a resurgent…

Anti Conscription cartoon

The Anzac Myth- Joseph Toscano

A piece which explores Wobbly activity against conscription during WWI.

The tasks of today and tomorrow

A piece exploring transformation in struggle, its limits, and tasks in an environment when people aren't self-initiating struggle in our specific historical position. Examples looked at are IWW experiences in the Port Trucker wildcats of 2005, Occupy, Madison, and the unfolding of the crisis.

Redefining green anarchism: that dreaded "I" word - Steve Ongerth

Neither we IWWs, nor green syndicalists, for that matter, are arguing for "One Big Factory" in any case. What we are saying is that we recognize that in order to abolish the worst aspects of "industrialism", (capitalism), at least part of the strategy must involve seizing the machinery of production. It's what happens after that which is the bone of contention. We argue that at least some industry is necessary for…

Responding to the growing importance of the state in the workers' movement

One of a series about the increase in efforts directed at state intervention to improve capitalism,…

What is the IWW?

What is the IWW? A candid statement of its principles, objects and methods

A pamphlet laying out the program of the IWW from 1922. It was translated through out the world, and…

The first congress of the Red Trade Union International at Moscow, 1921

The first congress of the Red Trade Union International at Moscow, 1921. A report of the proceedings by George Williams, delegate of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World).

RILU, IWW, IWA

The IWW, the state, and international affiliations

A brief article exploring the relationship between state-centered politics and the IWW's considerations in international relations.

Thomas J Hagerty

The early IWW, the preamble and the break with political socialism

A short article on the IWW, electoral politics, the State and the questions it raises for…

Direct Action journal

Direct Action was published by the Industrial Workers of the World Australian Administration. It printed 135 issues between January 1914 and…

On being eaten by the young

John O'Reilly on some organization issues he sees in the IWW.

Contractualism should be avoided

A reply to an article that appeared in the Industrial Worker newspaper, titled 'The contract as a tactic'.