Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

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

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.

IWW capitalist pyramid

IWW image gallery

Images from the Industrial Workers of the World union.

An Interview with IWW Barista Alex van Schaick by Andrej Grubacic

Interview with Alex van Schaick, a worker at Starbucks Coffee Corporation and an organizer with the IWW Starbucks Workers Union. First published in Z Magazine.

Workers' riot in George Square, centre of Glasgow, 1919

Glasgow and the Wobblies

The Industrial Workers of the World's influence in Glasgow is not so well known, but it had considerable influence on the shop stewards movement…

Anarchy, precarity, and the revenge of the IWW: An interview with Starbucks union organiser Daniel Gross

Interview with IWW organizer Daniel Gross where he discusses 'solidarity unionism,'…

Greek university occupation: The education sector has recently become an important arena of struggle both in the UK and abroad

Mobilising educators

A conference on education could bring together three out of the four major class struggle federations in the UK under one house this June, to…

Super Size My Pay - Fast food workers in New Zealand organise for better pay and conditions, 2005-6

In New Zealand, hundreds of fast food workers waged an innovative campaign called Super-Size My Pay during 2005-06. This is one worker's overview and analysis of the campaign.

Direct action victory on health and safety at Starbucks, 2006

Making work safer through direct action - Daniel Gross and Joe Tessone recount the actions of…

Class collaboration - old and new, and Open letter to the CNT, 1937

"Class collaboration - old and new", a timely reminder of working class political experience by…

IWW warehouse workers branch sacked

Members of the Industrial Workers of the World, organises at New York warehouses were sacked over the festive period, in retaliation for their…