Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

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

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…

A soldier returns - letter from an American fighter in the Durruti Column

A letter from an American trade unionist and member of the revolutionary union the Industrial…

Miscellaneous articles by Lucy Parsons

Lucy Parsons.

Lucy Parsons' speech to the IWW in 1905

Lucy Parsons addressed the founding convention of the Industrial Workers of the World revolutionary union on two occasions and her speeches…

The council communists between the New Deal and fascism - Gabriella M. Bonacchi

A history by Gabriella M. Bonacchi of council communist efforts in the US in the 1930s.

Paul Mattick Sr

Mattick, Paul, 1904-1981

A short biography of German council communist tool maker-turned academic Paul Mattick.

Curlewis, Richard, 1917-2002

A biography of Australian advocate of workers' control, Richard Curlewis.

Barker, Tom, 1887-1970

After emigrating to New Zealand and joining the IWW, Tom Barker became an organiser for the syndicalist union, he organised the Auckland general…

Dolgoff, Sam, 1902-1990

An obituary and short biography of Russian-American labour organiser and anarcho-syndicalist Sam Dolgoff.

Fletcher, Ben, 1890-1949

A short sketch of life on the Philadelphia ports of black IWW member and dock worker, Ben Fletcher.