International Workers' Association (IWA)

Content by about the International Workers' Association (IWA-AIT).

FAU Germany

Syndicalists organize and win in Berlin!

A brief article describing the German anarcho-syndicalist union, the FAU's 39th Congress. Originally appeared in the Industrial Worker July…

El congreso confederal de Zaragoza (mayo 1936)

The confederal concept of libertarian communism

A transcription of the anarcho-syndicalist CNT working out what libertarian communism would mean practically. In May 1936 the CNT held a…

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Differences between the CNT and the CGT

A statement from the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist union CNT regarding the differences between the themselves and the CGT union, Translated by…

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FAU and IWA: looking back to look ahead

An article by the The International Secretariat of the German anarcho-syndicalist union, the FAU. The piece is a truncated history of the…

July 2014 FAU conference

Sharing lessons with comrades in the FAU - Levke Asyr

A brief article by Levke Asyr of the German anarcho-sydncialist union the FAU's 2014 conference…

A follower of fascist Colonel de la Rocque gets it on the chin as a fascist menace is routed by Popular Front supporters in a fight that swept a purportedly radical government into office.

French labor - Joseph Wagner

An article by Joseph Wagner covering the French labor movement, the wave of sit-down strikes and its interactions with the Popular Front…

I.W.W. Convention - S.W. (Sam Dolgoff)

An account by S.W. (Sam Dolgoff) of the 1938 IWW Convention in which he expresses support for the potential decision of the IWW to allow collective bargaining agreements and regret for the decision to not affiliate with the International Workingmens Association. Dolgoff was a longtime IWW member who also participated in a number of anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist groups and publications. Originally appeared in…

For a syndicalist world movement against dual union - John S. Morgan

A submission by John S. Morgan to the IWW’s internal General Organization Bulletin (September 1934) arguing against political party linked dual unionism and urging the IWW to better cooperate with other syndicalist unions around the world.

For affiliation with I.W.M.A. - New York Branch of the G.W. I.U. #310-#330

A motion passed by a branch of the IWW endorsing affiliation with the International Workingmen’s Association, an international federation of revolutionary unions. Originally appeared in the General Organization Bulletin (February 1937)

Four images depicting the horrors of war.

Against Capitalism & War

From #46 of Black Star (January 2025). Black Star is the Northern Ireland newsletter of Organise! an Irish anarcho-syndicalist group.

Respect to elders past and present - Indigenous sovereignty was never ceded.

AUSTRALIA: ¡MANOS FUERA DE LA CNT/AIT!

FROM AUSTRALIA TO SPAIN: NO JUSTICE IN CAPITALIST COURTS

Photograph of the Audiencia Nacional building front.

Fire to the anarchist unions: chronicles of a death foretold

An anarcha-feminist critique of anarcho-syndicalism in Spain, as demonstrated by the fracturing of…