Welcome to National Industrial Workers of the World Day, a celebration that highlights the struggles and triumphs of workers ...

IWW agitates during the '30s for "Not a minute on the day, not a penny off the pay, Fight against 48 hours and Wage cuts". IWW protests World War II and is made illegal 1946 Australian IWW reformed in ...

“The IWW literally wrote the book on protest music. These songs, some written many decades ago, address the same issues facing us today: poverty, police brutality, ...

Still, it's important to remember that the IWW had more than enough of other issues to protest against besides religion, and that it also was important for them to fill the texts they wrote with a ...

While the IWW tends to get short shrift—or sometimes even outright hostility—from the traditional labor movement, ... That initial protest blossomed into a full-fledged labor battle, ...

Organized by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) while still in its infancy, the 1906 Sit-Down Strike in Schenectady, New York is an example of the latter.

This was not the first time the far right had threatened the IWW, so members knew they needed to walk into any protest with a nimble plan that included employing some form of community self-defense.

Here’s why: As Time explained in 1929, it all started on May Day 1886, “when some 200,000 U.S. workmen engineered a nationwide strike for an eight-hour day.” At the time, it was common for ...