Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

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

IWW-affiliated truckers to strike

On Dec 8, North Carolina log haulers and container drivers - many who are misclassified as "independent contractors" - will be holding a work…

Wobbly Fred Thompson on the 30s depression - Studs Terkel

The late Wobbly veteran, in conversation with the late Studs Terkel, looks back on his experience in…

Developing working class environmentalism - Arthur J. Miller

The basic cause of most environmental problems is the system of industrial greed: capitalism, both private and state. The owners of industry treat workers like they treat the rest of the environment. Our environmentalism should come from the understanding that all things are connected.

Starbucks fires another barista for union activity

Grand Rapids firing comes in the midst of Unfair Labor Practice charges being investigated by the NLRB against Starbucks.

Starbucks workers hold press conference on May 1st 2008.

Grand Rapids Starbucks Union and Spanish CNT announce global day of action

Grand Rapids Starbucks Union and the Seville local of the Spanish CNT have announced a Global Day of…

Twenty New York IWW members fired

Twenty IWW members have been fired from a food distributing warehouse in New York.

Save Our NBS

IWW Launches Second Phase of National Campaign

A press release from the IWW outining its plans to organise the UK's National Blood Service.

Calgary 1919: The Birth of the OBU and the General Strike - Eugene Plawiuk

Eugene Plawiuk's history of the Calgary general strike of 1919, which started off as a sympathy strike for the Winnipeg general strike and soon escalated into their own struggle for union recognition.

The Edmonton General Strike of 1919 - Eugene Plawiuk

Eugene Plawiuk's account of the Edmonton general strike of 1919 which was sparked off in solidarity with the general strike in Winnipeg,

The Industrial Workers of the World in Australia - Ian Bedford

A short critical, but generally sympathetic, assessment of the Australian Wobblies. From; Labour…

IWW Anti Conscription poster

Memoirs of the I.W.W. [Australia] - Bill Beattie

Recollections of struggles in the years around the First World War - by a former Australian Wobbly. From; Labour History no. 13, (Journal of the…

A Peoples’ History of Auckland- From the general strike to the ADB summit: 1912-1995

A series of snapshots into radical undercurrents and outbreaks of people power in Auckland, New Zealand.