Why We Need Solidarity Unionism on an Industrial Scale

The IWW Goes on Tour (Again) Tour Details and RSVP This summer, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is once again going on tour nationally. Wobblies in multiple cities have organized the Fire…

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Organizing Identities

Vinícius Rodrigues de Souza, Vecteezy. Our individual, collective, and institutional identities organize us. The common view suggests that identity is a stable given. You are X or Y and nothing cha…

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The Denver Organizing Summit

Wobs Gather in Denver for the 2026 Organizing Summit and Social FWs gathered at the 2026 Denver Organizing Summit. Courtesy FW Noah L. On April 25th and 26th, Wobs from cities ranging from Seattle …

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Letter to the Editor: Response to “Rebuilding” and “Response”

This editorial is a response to the November 13, 2025 article, “Rebuilding the IWW,“ and “A Response” published on May 1, 2026. Two recent articles published in Industrial Worker, “Rebu…

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Minneapolis is a Union Town

The first International Workers Day hinged on the May Day festival and the strike for the eight hour work week, according to activist Lucy Parsons, who was involved in planning the first May Day st…

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Donate to Restore Utah Phillips' Caboose and Library, organized by Brendan Phillips

My name is Brendan Phillips, and I am the youngest son of U. Utah Phillips… Brendan Phillips needs your support for Restore Utah Phillips' Caboose and Library

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New Print Issue Available!

The 2026 Industrial Worker Spring issue is now available for download! Read or print it now at your leisure. This is a 5.5 by 8.5 inch booklet. 2026 1 IW Spring Half LetterDownload

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In Solidarity with the Union of Journalists in Lebanon

In light of the ongoing Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the Industrial Workers of the World Printing and Publishing Workers Union and Freelance Journalists Union expresses its solidarity with the Unio…

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A Response to “Rebuilding the IWW”

This editorial is a response to the November 13, 2025 article, “Rebuilding the IWW.” Why do we need to be connected to the labor left? The fellow worker presents two main reasons: we ne…

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Facets of Mayday

A group of Wobblies congregate in Bellingham, WA for May Day in 1981. May Day has layers of meaning—some celebratory, others tragic—shaped across centuries. From its origins as a festival of spring…

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Our Goals, Our Methods, Our Efficacy

Special thanks to x431037 for all the data crunching and graph making work that went into this article. The year was 2025. Austin, Texas, was hosting the Southern Regional Organizing Assembly (SROA…

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The Long Memory: Utah Phillips’ Caboose & Library

Utah Phillips, his wife, and one of his sons standing on the front “porch” of the flanger. Brendan Phillips Industrial Worker recently sat down with Fellow Worker Brendan Phillips, son …

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Seedlings of Solidarity: PASA 2026

Members who attend educational and organizing events share what they learned with the members whose dues funded their attendance. This model seeks to recognize and follow the “each one teach …

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What is Syndicalism and What is it Good For?

Rasmus Hästbacka of the Swedish union SAC highlights six leading ideas of syndicalism and their usefulness in contemporary class struggle. Syndicalism has emerged from class struggle. It is an inte…

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This is Not a Protest

Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) organized a protest north on Central Avenue Northeast in Minneapolis on February 15, 2026. (c) Carly Danak, MPR news. Minneapolis shows us why we…

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The Grievance, It’s In Our Hands

In his poem “The Grievance, It’s Out of My Hands,” Martin Glaberman lays bare the dead end of business unionism. He traces the life of a workplace grievance as it leaves the worker’s hands, passes …

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New Print Issue Available!

The 2026 IW Winter issue is now available for download! Read or print it now at your leisure. This is a 5.5 by 8.5 inch booklet. 2026 1 IW WinterDownload

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Why We Oppose the No-Strike Clause

July 15, 1922, Industrial Solidarity paper. From the IWW Materials Preservation Project, restored by x426914. These are my observations as a dual-card steward in one of the largest unions in the U.…

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Report Back: The 2025 Union Co-op Symposium

Report back from an IWW delegation to the 2025 Union Co op symposium CINCINNATI, OH–Both the Pittsburgh and DC General Membership Branches formed a delegation of Wobblies organizing in the cooperat…

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ICL Statement On Gaza Genocide / La declaración de la CIT sobre el genocidio de Gaza

Note from the ICL Liaison: The ICL voted to remove mention of BDS in the official statement, but we are printing the original in support of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, which we hav…

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Gains

Critics of the IWW often point to our lack of contracts and NLRB-certified bargaining units as proof that we don’t make lasting gains. But let’s be clear: their definition of gains is shaped by eig…

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New Print Issue Available!

The 2025 IW Autumn issue is now available for download! Read or print it now at your leisure. 2025 IW AutumnDownload

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Philadelphia IWW Unveils Historical Marker

Philadelphia I.W.W. Unveils Historical Marker and Celebrates Local 8 and Ben Fletcher’s Legacy of Militant, Industrial Organizing On Saturday June 21, 2025 the Philadelphia Historical and Museum Co…

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Restaurant Worker Manifesto

Demand Sick Days. By Jefferson Pierce. Introduction The restaurant industry stands at the frontlines of a new labor movement. A recent report reveals that the highest concentration of strikes in re…

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For the Little Red Songbook

1909 IWW Band Postcard. From the IWW Materials Preservation Project. Greetings Fellow Workers, The Little Red Songbook (LRS) Committee has been working for two years on the new 39th Edition of the …

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Solidarity Suffers Long and Is Kind

Fellow Workers David Helm, Scott Slaba, and Mary Thurtle. Food for People Soup Kitchen, Bellingham IWW. From the IWW Materials Preservation Project. Harry Bridges once said, “The most important wor…

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Cartoon: Face-to-Face with Mr. Block

Editors note: This is the eighth issue in the “Pacey Pratt the Sabo Cat” series. Today, workers deal with a traitor in their midst – Mr. Block himself! Let’s see how the workers deal wi…

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Burnout at the Stake

art by Sara H. Solutions to Martyrdom Culture in Solidarity Unions It all began when fellow worker J told me about their experience in the Arab Spring. They explained that the revolutionaries in Ye…

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An Interview with Victoria Lamasko

(c) Victoria Lamasko. Exiled Russian artist, Victoria Lomasko, sat down with Industrial Worker to discuss her latest book, The Last Soviet Artist, what it means to be a political artist, and how wo…

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