As you read this: multinational corporations are trapping around 150,000 contract tobacco farmers in Zimbabwe in cycles of debt, bogus self-employment, and dangerous working conditions. These big corporations force small-scale farmers to take out loans for seeds and pesticides, then buy back the harvest at rates that barely cover those loans—leaving months of hard labour unpaid while offloading all farming risks onto impoverished families.

As you read this: multinational corporations are trapping around 150,000 contract tobacco farmers in Zimbabwe in cycles of debt, bogus self-employment, and dangerous working conditions. These big corporations force small-scale farmers to take out loans for seeds and pesticides, then buy back the harvest at rates that barely cover those loans—leaving months of hard labour unpaid while offloading all farming risks onto impoverished families.

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ST. MARY’S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, FALLS ROAD

The Industrial Workers of the World, or IWW, is a democratic union run by it's members for the interests of the working class. With branches in North America and Europe, it has a world wide network of working folks all connected by a class solidarity.

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) condemns the anti-community rioting and violence that has occurred in Belfast over the past few evenings. Such acts have been deliberately orchestrated, bears all the hallmarks of previous racial and sectarian pogroms of the past.Fascist organisers - emboldened by capture of political power across the world, and the erosion of workers’ rights, are attempting to weaponise and manufacture further division among working class communities.We are called to re

We are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast.

A discussion on organising challenges, successes, strategies, and how we can collectively organise to improve our lives as migrants.

As part of our ongoing IWW educational discussions and workshops, the IWW Ireland Branch will be holding a historical talk and celebration on the 140th anniversary of May Day and the Chicago Haymarket Massacre of 1886. This is an online and in person event which will take place in Belfast. Full details will be issued to members. Please email ireland@iww.org.uk for location details and zoom link.We hope to see you there!

The Precarious Migrant Worker: The Socialisation of Precarity is available today from Polity Press. In this blog piece for Polity, the author, Interregnum member Panos Theodoropoulos writes about the book's relevance in the current rapidly changing socioeconomic environment.

Organising Workers in the UK

The Industrial Workers of the World, or IWW, is a democratic union run by it's members for the interests of the working class. With branches in North America and Europe, it has a world wide network of working folks all connected by a class solidarity.