International Workers' Association (IWA)

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Story of the Syndicalist Workers Federation: Born in Struggle - Tom Brown

Tom Brown's 1968 description of the Syndicalist Workers' Federation, a UK based organization that…

The Workers Themselves - Wayne Thorpe

The workers themselves - Wayne Thorpe

Wayne Thorpe analyzes the international policies and endeavors of the syndicalist movement before and after the First World War, relations among…

Topy Top mass sacking sparks Zara protests call

The mass sacking of 35 trade union organisers at Topy Top, Peru's most profitable textiles exporter, has prompted a callout for worldwide…

International Workers Association

Revolutionary syndicalist internationalism, 1913-1923: the origins of the International Working Men’s Association - Wayne Thorpe

A highly detailed 1979 PhD thesis about the origins of the anarcho-syndicalist…

The IWA today - South London DAM, 1985

A short pamphlet about the International Workers Association (IWA) and its sections published by the South London group of the Direct Action…

Precarious work, self-management and co-operatives

The following is a presentation by the CNT-Granada Education Union for a conference on 'Precarious work, self-management and co-operatives', held…

What is ASI?

Serbian IWA section's explanation of who they are.

ASI Report to IWA Congress 2009 on the Belgrade 6

Statement the Serbian Anarcho-syndicalist group ASI presented to the International Workers Association Congress in 2009 on the states attempts to…

Wildcat strikes of Czech workers in Hyundai and Dymos get massive attention

Around 20 workers left the welding shop in Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Czech in Nošovice near Frýdek-Místek (Czech Republic) during their shift on Tuesday 1st of December 2009. One day later there was an hourly wildcat strike in assembly hall at the same company. On 3rd December workers in Huyndai subcontactor Dymos organised an hourly work stoppage too. On 7th December the union called a “strike emergency” (a…

The anarchist International

This thread got me thinking yesterday about how little decent information exists on the IWA — the biggest anarchist project of all time.

Financial help needed for Serbian anarchists

Call for solidarity with 6 comrades from Serbia.

Statement of Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative on Arrests of their Members

On September, 4th 2009 District Court in Belgrade decided that arrested members of ASI will be held…