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

A mine strike in Jerome organized by the IWW in May ended with strikers and union organizers rounded up by armed agents of the mine owners and shipped by railroad cattle cars to Kingman, ...

At the time of this writing, the strike is on day 10. “We called this an open-ended strike for a reason. It needed to be one,” Giammarinaro said. The IWW is an organization that, in more than a ...

The union hall itself was destroyed, and the IWW’s influence in San Pedro was lessened dramatically. Though it seemed to have worked, voices of outrage over the lawless raid began to grow ...

Unions also reserved funds to support members in case of a strike. St. Paul tailors went on the state’s first recorded strike in 1854, ... The IWW was active in Minnesota’s ...

All this raises questions about the uses and limits of the law in the U.S. for militant workers bent on openly confronting capital. Today, the IWW is still organizing, though its historic heyday has ...

The Wobblies were Marxist in their analysis of capitalism but anarcho-syndicalist in the kind of society they yearned to establish: The state, they argued, should be replaced by a revolutionary union.

Andy Hiles, Branch Secretary for the Sheffield arm of the IWW, spoke to Now Then about re-energising the union’s work in the local area. Trade unions across sectors stepped up strike action last year, ...