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Workers at Freddy’s strike in Durham, N.C. in 2020. Photo from N.C. Raise Up/Fight for $15 and a Union. Throughout history, working class people have stood up and fought back against oppressi…
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Staff at the McDonalds on Van Dyke and Outer Drive in Detroit protest low wages in 2019. Source: Eric Seals, Detroit Free Press Throughout history, working class people have stood up and fought bac…
on Nov 1
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Editors note: This is the fifth issue in the “Pacey Pratt the Sabo Cat” series. Today, Pacey Pratt teaches us once again that collective action on the shop floor gets the goods.
on Oct 24
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Contracts are not Class Struggle
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art by x364181. At first glance, public interest in labor unions appears to have grown exponentially over the past few years. This has been a welcome development; however, despite the constant exho…
on Oct 17
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One Year of Genocide, the Drums of War Bang Louder
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The following statement was originally published on IWW WISE-RA (Wales, Ireland, and Scotland)’s website on October 8th, 2024 and has been reprinted here with permission. The Wales Ireland Sc…
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NYC baristas from Starbucks march down union square in 2007. Throughout history, working class people have stood up and fought back against oppression and exploitation in the food system. Each mont…
on Oct 4
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Cartoon: Where Do Bosses Come From?
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Editors note: This is the fourth issue in the “Pacey Pratt the Sabo Cat” series. In this installment we hear a philosophical and practical answer to the penultimate question: “Where do bosses…
on Sep 19
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The Organizer and the Disorganized Resistance
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Last year, my workplace instituted a number of changes to our time off policies. While a couple of these changes were good, most ranged from annoying to very bad. We lost most of our ability to tak…
on Aug 23
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Two Palestinian women laden with belongings walk through Naseirat camp after it was bombed by Israeli military forces. October 16, 2023. © 2023 Hatem Moussa, AP. The Workers’ Muse, No. 1 Edit…
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Editors note: This is the third in the “Pacey Pratt the Sabo Cat” series. In this installment we see a great example of a march on the boss! Direct action gets the goods.
on Jul 26
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Dedication of the IWW’s Monument to Victims of the 1919 Centralia Tragedy
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Photo credit x388133. Monument Committee members unveil the monument. Centralia, WA–The Industrial Workers of the World dedicated the ‘Union Victims’ monument in Centralia, Washington on Sunday Ju…
on Jul 19
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The IWW “Gets the Goods” on a Teapot Dome Crook
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“Bargain Day in Washington,” Ellison Hoover, 1924. The year was 1924, the middle of the “Roaring Twenties,” and the United States had quickly moved on from wartime scarcity to peacetime…
on Jul 4
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Upstate New York Wobblies Grow Branch with Benefit Albums
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Union Songs Make Us Strong, No. 3 USMUS is an IW column dedicated to the intersection of music and worker struggle. “It’s an 80-10-10 split,” says Noah W, James Connolly Upstate New York IWW Branch…
on Jun 26
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Art Young’s Dangerous Cartoons
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Art Young, The Masses, December 1915. After President Woodrow “He Kept Us Out of the War” Wilson, recently the subject of a fawning piece in the Atlantic by David Frum, brought the U.S. into World …
on Jun 9
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I first came into contact with Fellow Worker Alan Curry in the late 1990s, not long after the early broadcasts of “The Labor Show” on WRPI-FM, which I hosted and produced. He phoned in to comment a…
on May 30
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Editors note: This is the second in the “Pacey Pratt the Sabo Cat” series. Enjoy this primer on work-to-rule!
on May 23
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Working Class History of Oshawa, Part II
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Photo credit Toronto General Membership Branch. In September 1955, Local 222 members began a five-month strike at GMC. This is another significant strike in Oshawa’s labor history because of …
on May 16
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Prior to mid-2020 when print subscriptions ceased, Industrial Worker had long been primarily a print newspaper. These print issues of Industrial Worker are finally available for your reading pleasu…
on May 7
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Poem: In Defence of the Wretched of the Earth
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Who shall nourish the wretched of the earth? Who, when the naked night places its cold breath upon the starving child’s breast, shall grant the hand of succour and urge the blighted soul to heal an…
on May 1
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Working Class History of Oshawa, Part I
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Photo credit Toronto General Membership Branch. The labor history of Oshawa has affected workers’ rights in the whole of so-called Canada. Because of this, the capitalist class does everything in i…
on Apr 18
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Editors note: Today I’m excited to re-introduce an old Industrial Worker tradition: political cartoons! This series, called “Pacey Pratt the Sabo Cat” features a beloved recurring…
on Apr 11
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Graphic courtesy of Organizing.Work. Editor’s note: The following story was published in Seattle Worker on March 8th, 2023. I am sharing this piece in Industrial Worker because it’s an exampl…
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Organizing the Unorganized: A Radical Introspective or a Top-Down View?
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Flint, Michigan. 1937. A sit-down strike at the GM plant. Photo by Sheldon Dick. Library of Congress. I just finished listening to the 9-episode podcast “Organizing the Unorganized” abo…
on Mar 20
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The Invisible Hand of the Class Struggle and The Myth of Spontaneity
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Image by FW Fitz. There was a recent walkout at the restaurant where I work. I was off that day and got a text message from my coworker: “Holy shit! I was in the back cleaning when everyone just wa…
on Mar 6
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“Uniquely Bad”- A Kind of Disordered Thinking That Every Organizer will Encounter
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Every workplace is different, but that does not mean you cannot form a union there. Fellow Worker Matilda explains that many of us avoid organizing in our workplaces by rationalizing that our workp…
on Mar 1
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Why We Need a Democratic and Militant Union
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BRUSSELS, BE—Defending worker-led, democratic, and militant unionism in Belgium is certainly no easy task in a labor union landscape dominated by two bureaucratic behemoths, the socialist FGTB and …
on Feb 6
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When You Can’t Organize Widely, Organize Fast
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Recently we had a difficult lead in our branch. A fellow worker was at a small retail store and part of a large national chain. The store itself only had a few workers, typically between 3-5 on sta…
on Jan 26
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IWW Sends Centralia Pardon Petition to Washington’s Governor
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Dedication of the monument’s plaque on a temporary base in Centralia, WA, November 11, 2023. Photo by x331980. The IWW General Administration sent a petition to Washington State governor Jay Inslee…
on Jan 15
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IWW Methods Score Major Victory for Healthcare Workers
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BRUSSELS, BE—For over two years now, IWW Brussels in Belgium has been organizing in the healthcare sector. Workers are uniting and fighting to improve their working conditions and wages. The method…
on Dec 27
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Building Relationships With Coworkers is the Precondition to All Good Organizing
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IWW Coworkers on strike in 1912 in British Columbia, CA. There’s one main mistake people make when they start organizing their workplaces that’s responsible for more stumbles, setbacks, and losses …
on Dec 14
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Wobbly Musician Revives Historic Union Songs on Upcoming Album
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Wobbly Chris Westover conducts Sing in Solidarity, the choir of the New York City Democratic Socialists of America. Union Songs Make Us Strong, No. 1 USMUS is an IW column dedicated to the intersec…
on Nov 30
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NARA IWW Stands With Palestinian Workers and Civilians
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People in Hamtramck, MI march for a ceasefire in Palestine on November 4, 2023. Photo by X390031. The North American Regional Administration of the Industrial Workers of the World unequivocally rea…
on Nov 14, 2023
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A Review of Labor Power and Strategy by John Womack
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Workers in choke points in the economy and critical functions within an industry, labeled “technically strategic” workers, sit at the center of historian John Womack Jr.’s “…
on Nov 2, 2023
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Image by X364181. Is that all labor needs? Ever since the sharp decline of unions in the latter half of the 1900s people have been scrambling to “revive” the labor movement. The call to action gain…
on Oct 19, 2023
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United Auto Workers members at a rally in Detroit, Michigan on September 15, 2023. The UAW is striking all of the Big Three auto makers at the same time for the first time in history to make demand…
on Oct 9, 2023