Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

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

Lessons from a social service worker’s strike

This piece was written in 2004-2005 in the wake of a strike at a behavioral health facility. Through the immediate eyes of those experiences it…

Portrait of Mother Jones

The autobiography of Mother Jones

The autobiography of Mary Harris Jones, more commonly known as Mother Jones. The "most dangerous woman in America" and a committed organizer for…

Hellen Keller in 1920

Helen Keller: why I became an IWW

An Interview, written by Barbara Bindley, New York Tribune, January 15, 1916.

pamphlet cover

Unemployment and the Machine

An analysis of the relationship between technology and levels of employment.

First front page

The Voice of the People newspaper

Voice of the People was the new name of the Lumberjack the Wobbly Weekly covering New Orleans and the surrounding area.

Lumberjack Front page

The Lumberjack newspaper

An archive of a Wobbly Weekly Newspaper covering New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana and focussing (at first) on the Lumberjacks of which it was…

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…