Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

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

Not one nor two: political organization, syndicalism, and thought

A piece exploring an experience organizing with transportation workers and the connections between…

Learning from our mistakes: IWWs criticize and reflect on their organizing

Adam Weaver, in response to an insinuation that the IWW criticizes every union but itself, lists…

Patriotism and the worker - Gustave Herve

A pamphlet put out in 1912 by the IWW Publishing Bureau, consisting of Gustave Hervé's speech to the jury at his 1905 trial for “anti-militarist”…

The advancing proletariat - Abner E. Woodruff

A pamphlet authored by Abner E. Woodruff and published by the IWW Publishing Bureau in 1917.

Life-long Wobblies

An article by J Pierce and Sadie Farrell about life-planning for revolutionaries and how the IWW has attempted to address this with Junior…

IWW Scottish education workers’ network: what we stand for

What we stand for: Worker and student rights and self-organisation / Opposition to casualisation…

cartoon from IWW leaflet - "hold fast, buddie, we got 'em"

100 Years Ago: The Philadelphia dockers strike and Local 8 of the IWW - Mouvement Communiste and Kolektivně proti Kapitălu

A text published to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of an important strike…

99% needs a raise

Venture syndicalism: fanning and dousing the flames of discontent

Article from the Industrial Worker newspaper on fast food strikes in the U.S.

The Seattle general strike, 1919 - Jeremy Brecher

Jeremy Brecher's historical account of the general strike and takeover of the city by workers in Seattle in 1919.

Deja Vu (Part 1 of 2): the parallels between the Sisters’ Camelot & Jimmy John’s anti-union campaigns

Two Jimmy Johns workers compare the anti-union drives at their workplace and at…

Philip Josephs

100 years of anarchism in New Zealand celebrated today

100 years ago today, 9 July, the Freedom Group was formed in Wellington, New Zealand.

Elizabeth Flynn

Memories of the Industrial Workers of the World - Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Transcript of a speech Elizabeth Flynn made to students at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb on…