Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

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

Strikers face off with militia in Lawrence

The Lawrence textile strike, 1912 - Sam Lowry

A short history of the strike of 20,000 textile workers, mostly women and girls who included native and immigrant workers, which won big…

13. The Socialist Challenge

May 7 - Letter of Solidarity to the Workers of JeffBoat from the IWW

2001: The JeffBoat workers wildcat strike

IWW pickets Edinburgh Starbucks

Members of the IWW picketed a Starbucks in Edinburgh yesterday. A short report of the picket follows.

McGuckin, Henry - Memoirs of a Wobbly

An important contribution to the history of the Industrial Workers of the World. A superb account by a rank'n'file Wobbly organiser; on the road,…

Sabotage and striking on the job - Louis Adamic

Louis Adamic immigrated to the United States from Yugoslavia at age 14 and was naturalized in 1918. This essay describes his experiences as a…

A migrant worker joins the Wobblies - Henry Pfaff

Henry Pfaff tells his story of how we came to join the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in the 1910s.

US: Shattuck Cinema workers are going union

Landmark Shattuck Cinema workers are fed up. Years of bad hours, poor pay, a hostile work environment and the demoralsing treatment from theatre…

Kurt Gustav Wilckens

Wilckens, Kurt Gustav, 1886-1923

A short biography of German-born anarchist Kurt Gustav Wilckens, who assassinated the man responsible for the deaths of 1,500 workers, and whose…

US: Workers score big victory against Starbucks at Labour Board

New York, NY - The Industrial Workers of the World Starbucks Workers Union won a watershed victory yesterday...

Kenneth Rexroth

Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982

A short biography of poet, anarchist and pioneer of the Beat movement Kenneth Rexroth.