Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

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

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.

Lend a hand: Starbucks engaging in religious persecution of IWW barista

For the second time in as many months, Starbucks management has kicked Starbucks Workers Union member Suley Ayala out of the workplace for wearing her modest Pentagram necklace.

EZ Supply workers in Queens vote to unionise with the IWW

The Industrial Workers of the World chalked up another victory in an National Labour Relations Board election on Thursday, 9 February, at E-Z Supply Corp., a wholesale distributor of restaurant supplies and foodstuffs, located in Queens, New York.

IWW: Union victories at NYC Union Square Starbucks

On Friday Nov. 18, Starbucks workers at Union Square publicly declared their membership in the Starbucks Workers Union.

New York: EZ supply workers go IWW

Deep in the gritty, industrial district of North Brooklyn/Queens, 15 workers of EZ Supply started the new year right by marching to their workplace and demanding that their highly abusive boss sign a petition recognizing the IWW as their union.

Workers at third US Starbucks go union

In New York City at the end of last year Starbucks baristas and supporters wearing union pins and hats surrounded the store manager at the Union Square location in Manhattan tonight to announce their membership in the IWW Starbucks Workers Union.

Radical union's picket wins worker back unpaid wages

Members of the Chicago General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World labour union (IWW) last week picketted and called for a boycott of the Ideal Hand Car Wash in Chicago’s Albany Park neighbourhood.

Bisbee deportation

Still on strike! Recollections of a Bisbee deportee - Fred Watson

An account by a striking miner and Wobbly (Industrial Workers of the World member) who was deported…