The legendary Wobbly and songwriter, executed 110 years ago, was celebrated worldwide for his resilience and humour ~ Owen Clayton ~ Born Joseph Em…
Remembering Joe Hill
Tag: IWW
Notes from the US: Reaction and Resistance
As action erupts against ICE raids, the MAGA cult moves on with its legislative onslaught ~ Louis Further ~ What you see in reporting on protests a…
Art Young’s dangerous cartoons
Soon after the United States became involved in World War I, the federal government began its prosecution of avant-garde socialist magazine The Ma…
Union takes multinational language school to tribunal in case challenging precarious employment
The TEFL Workers’ Union (a section of the IWW) has filed for a tribunal to support English language teachers who suffered financial loss as a res…
What a Japanese Anarchist taught me about British politics
At the start of the 20th Century, Japan was in a state of technological, cultural and political acceleration.
Syndicalist unions and Covid-era resistance: A CIT roundup
The anarcho-syndicalist international, founded in 2018, looks at workplace struggle in its branches worldwide and calls for the building of new for…
Language teachers win redundancy fight after two-month campaign
After the Delfin English School in London sacked all of its staff just before Christmas, subsequently declaring itself bankrupt, Tefl teachers with…
Deliveroo shames itself again amid work strife
The food delivery firm, which has run into some serious grassroots union organising in recent years, is trying divide and rule tactics against stri…
IWW: Raids targeting couriers are indefensible
The syndicalist union has hit out at recent Home Office focus on vulnerable casualised workers already heavily pressured by a new ‘substitution�…
Podcast Review: Talking Shop
In this first review-roundup, Fingers Malone picks out some of the best podcast listening for anarchists.
Bristol IWW defends whistle blowers and free speech in Bristol City Council
In March 2018 a worker employed in Child Protection for Bristol City Council (BCC) was suspended from his post.
IWW Couriers Network launches first national campaign
The IWW Couriers Network has launched the “We’re playing your game but you won’t tell us the rules!” campaign to force gig economy food com…
IWW Cymru links with Spanish SAT union for international protest
Members of the Welsh Branch of the syndicalist Industrial Workers of the World will protest outside Admiral’s Cardiff HQ on Friday in solidarity …
Interview: IWOC and GG/GO on incarceration and class struggle
On the occasion of the congress of the CIT / IWC in Parma, we had the opportunity to interview two comrades, one from the US and one from Germany, …
Review: Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW
This book deals with the international scope of the IWW, how it spread to other countries, often through the idea of the One Big Union being carrie…
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No consent to confinement
UK Supreme Court muddies the waters on deprivation of liberty, as safeguards are stripped away ~ punkacademic ~ The Supreme Court last week ruled o…
Anarchist News Review: Belfast pogroms and World Cup corruption
Jack and Mike discuss some of the worst racist violence in recent Northern Irish history, looking at the factors behind it, both historic loyalist …
Abolish AI – before it abolishes us
Evidence of the existential threat posed to humanity by artificial intelligence accrues day by day ~ Bill Weinberg ~ The United Nations on 4 June i…
Israeli academia “under command”
Report exposes Israeli higher education’s collaboration with military and arms manufacturers ~ Nissi Peli ~ Israel’s deliberate and thoroug…
Revolt in Albania: Besa and Flamingos
An ancient obligation to protect is animating the mass protests against the Jared Kushner’s destructive resort ~ Joel Sucher ~ I’ve said it…
