Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

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

A Reply to ‘One Big Union? The IWW in Australia’

In this article Ben D x368045 replies to a discussion and critique of the Australian IWW that appeared on the website of the Socialist…

The dialectic of exploitation and repression, forms of self-organization, and the avoidance of vulgar workerism

Gayge Operaista writes about some of the strengths and weaknesses of anarchist…

Seattle Solidarity Network

Striking back at bosses: solidarity networks and sexual assault

Members of the Twin Cities IWW take on a creepy boss through solidarity network-type tactics.

Reflections on the IWW (UK) National Strategy Conference – “organising the unorganised and the abandoned”

A report and reflection on the (relatively) recent strategy conference from a UK IWW member.

Sex work: Solidarity not salvation

An article by an Australian Wobbly sex worker advocating solidarity and syndicalism. Orginally published in the Autumn issue of Direct Action,…

Wobmobile

May 1st in the Twin Cities

From the Twin Cities IWW's blog, The Organizer, an account of the May Day protests and marches in the Twin Cities.

Men outside IWW headquarters in Duluth

Duluth IWW editorial from 1913

An 1913 editorial from the Industrial Worker on a dockworkers strike on Duluth, Minnesota.

Towards a union of organizers

From the Twin Cities IWW's blog, The Organizer, db contests the sentiment that anyone's workplace is impossible to organize and gives some…

The IWW at one hundred: the return of the haunted hall?

Melvyn Dubofsky suggests many histories of the IWW are clouded by myth, including the figures most…

The One Big Union Monthly (March 1919)

March 1919 issue of The One Big Union Monthly, an early publication of the IWW.

The One Big Union Monthly (August 1920)

August 1920 issue of The One Big Union Monthly, an early publication of the IWW.

The Cotton-Pickers, book cover

The cotton pickers - B. Traven

B Traven's novel about migrant labourers, poverty, crappy jobs, and the occasional successful strike... Set in 1920s Mexico. Here presented in…