Over the last 15 years labour activism has gone from being a marginal force on the left to one of the primary areas of focus for activists looking to change the world. Some of this is due to the wo…

A solidarity protest in Oakland, CA on 10 September 2016. Photo (c) Bradley Allen On a foggy day inside the Franklin Correctional Institution 10 years ago, prisoners refused to go to work, the chow…

In 1924 the Industrial Workers of the World was torn apart by scandal. Some argue that the Communist Party was at the root of it. Others argue the root of it was repression from after the first Wor…

The 2026 Industrial Worker Summer 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 3 IW SummerDownload

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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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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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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 …

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…

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…

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 …

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

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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

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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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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

(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…

The opening salvos of the second Trump administration have made clear that his administration aims to declare war on the labor movement and the working class. On January 28, President Trump fired t…

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…

Pizza Hut Workers Union, IU 460.Picture Source: Throughout history, working class people have stood up and fought back against oppression and exploitation in the food system. Each month, Food Fight…

“So I was getting myself ready for the revolution till I remembered I have work in the morning… the revolution will have to wait till after 5 PM I guess” ~ Apes of the State There is a concer…

April 23, 2011. SeaSol picket at Jimmy Johns. Throughout history, working class people have stood up and fought back against oppression and exploitation in the food system. Each month, Food Fight d…

Editors note: This is the seventh issue in the “Pacey Pratt the Sabo Cat” series. Today, Pacey Pratt teaches us that sticking together as a group is more effective than standing out when confrontin…

The IWW monument in Centralia’s George Washington Park. Photo by D. Tucker CENTRALIA, WA–As we study IWW history we come across the 1919 Centralia story, which is also called the Centralia Massacre…

March 30, 2013. Chicago Lake Liquors Picket in Minnesota. Throughout history, working class people have stood up and fought back against oppression and exploitation in the food system. Each month, …

Many classic union songs were written to the tune of religious songs. In a time when only the Salvation Army were legally allowed to speak on the street, Wobblies on soapboxes drowned them out by s…

Peets Labor Union. Photo from PLU. Berkeley, CA–Peet’s Corporate is stonewalling the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) as we try to negotiate a first contract at the five Peet’s stores we work …

Fellow Worker George Mann has released a wonderful compilation of songwriter Si Kahn’s songs about working folks and unions. “Labor Day” includes 21 songs, sung by a host of musicians: Si and Georg…