I’m wishing a safe and meaningful Pride month to all the working class. Solidarity Forever!

Should the Industrial Workers of the World consist of industrial unions that span an international scale (like the Service Employees International Union), or should it be an umbrella organization for global union federations (like the International Transport Workers' Federation)?

EDIT: Just to clarify, I'm not implying that the IWW isn't already an international union. I'm trying to ask about changing its current structure. So, instead of being a general union with industrial departments, it should be an international labor union federation made up of international unions or of global industrial union federations. Apologies for not being clear enough.

Lapsed wobbly, newer to Canada. Trying to find if there is anything active within New Brunswick, the Fredericton iww page hasn't posted in 12 years or replied to messages.

Sussex nb has a delegate at large apparently, but I haven't been able to find any real contact details.

Anyone know of anything or is halifax my nearest point?

Hello, all. I'm trying to get in contact with any members of the branch in Madison, WI. They seem to have gone radio silent a few years ago, and nobody seems to know why. I've tried emailing, of course, but received no response, so I figured I'd throw a message in a bottle and see if anything comes back.

Thanks for any help anyone can give. Solidarity! ✊

Link: https://chuffed.org/project/176588-send-anarchist-labor-organizers-to-labor-notes-2026

At a quick glance, seems like its round spokane in 1910s, involing loggers, transient workers and so on.... and at a quick glance doesnt show IWW stuff.

A few years ago when i was doing stuffs actively, and was finding a pile of old members for records here in australiasia, i noticed there was a fair bit of removal of IWW actions/influence in pretty much everything, here and overseas... makes me wonder if this is another one of those sort of things.

Book:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_Dreams

Movie:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29768334/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_dm_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_Train%20Dreams

A short from the movie:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KQFzN-3jnzQ

A thread on this book here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/15tiaq5/train_dreams_denis_johnson/

The Lucy Parsons Archive presents the Brazilian edition of The General Strike, by Ralph Chaplin, a classic of revolutionary unionism originally published in 1933.

Connected to the tradition of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the work discusses the general strike as a strategic tool for working-class organization at the point of production, addressing themes such as industrial unionism, direct action, class solidarity, and industrial democracy.

Translated and published in Fortaleza, this booklet edition seeks to contribute to the circulation of historical materials related to experiences of autonomous worker organization.

In-person launches

Fortaleza — Ceará

On May 8, the booklet was launched during the Literary and Artistic Fair organized by Revista Pindaíba, held at Praça Rosa da Fonseca / João Gentil, in the Benfica neighborhood of Fortaleza.

The Lucy Parsons Archive table was supported by militants from the Organização Popular Terra Liberta and the Sindicato Geral Autônomo da Educação do Ceará (SIGAE-CE), strengthening the local circulation of the work and dialogue between initiatives focused on memory, political education, and popular organization.

Rio de Janeiro — RJ

On May 9, the booklet was featured at the Feira Autônoma do Rio Popular Ameríndia (FARPA), organized at the Gilberto Domingos Occupation by the Movimento Unificado dos Camelôs (MUCA).

The table of the Associação dos Trabalhadores de Base do Rio de Janeiro (ATB-RJ) displayed and distributed the work alongside publications from publishers and groups such as Intermezzo, Ácrata, and the Instituto de Estudos Libertários (IEL), expanding the circulation of the edition within spaces of popular organization and grassroots unionism.

New chats!

The Lucy Parsons Archive also invites research groups, study spaces, struggle organizations, unions, collectives, and other interested initiatives to organize dialogues, debates, reading groups, and educational activities — in person or online — around the work, revolutionary unionism, and the memory of working-class struggles.

Photos from the launch can be found here. We encourage the republication of this email and the photos from our website by other outlets and initiatives sympathetic to the subject.

The title sounds a little crazy I know, but recently we’ve had several people show up to our local meetings who work at places where organizing isn’t really an option. One is a legal aid, one works for a small business owned by his brother and is the only employee, and the other works at a small non-profit.

All of these people are pretty passionate about joining and participating in the organization. Though our local work right now is heavily dedicated to workplace organizing, and everyone else is organizing at their workplace.

I want to make their time in the organization fulfilling and interesting so they stick around, because often right now we’ll be having conversations about what we did the past two weeks to organize our individual workplaces and they’ll end up left out of the conversation.

IWW Dual Carding is a form of social insertion in the exact same way FAU's Especifismo's social insertion is intended and described.

See, for example, the unity around the government in Spain 1936-39. The government crushed the revolution and fascism won.

Left unity is good for social democratic politicians that want support for administering capitalism. Also good for leninist parties that want to introduce state-capitalism.

A united left binds together some workers with the ruling classes, but divides the working class. A united class divides the left; the class challenge the rulers including red politicians.

Hey Gang!

This is a fun history post. I think an important question that will answer the question above is "has the IWW recovered before?"

Here is a table on IWW Membership numbers:

So a few important things to consider:
-The IWW has more members now than it did when it did during some of its more famous strike like McKees Rocks.
-The IWW also has substantially more members than it did when it had a functioning union with thousands of members in the Cleveland Shops.
-The IWW also has about as many members as it did right before things took off in the late 'teens.
-The IWW also has the most members it has had since the late 20's.

From this I think we can safely say the IWW is doing better than it has in a long time. It arguably has recovered a bit. But in all honesty the IWW is doing pretty well.

Recently redundant journalist trying my hand at the Satire thing.

Sorry if not allowed.

GTA GMB has a few cool things in the next couple of months, and we hope to see lots of folks coming out for these events.

23 & 24 May - OT101 in Toronto: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeql6QK0Mg2svJT1FVoIq9yBtrQTUtOKivwgQEgDL6BxXnC9Q/viewform

1 May - Joint movie night with The Socialist Project: https://socialistproject.ca/event/filmsocial-bread-and-roses/

6 & 7 June - OT102! in Toronto:

https://forms.gle/isN2AYmXDSRPZr6n8

OT102 is not a very regular offering, so if you're actively organizing your shop and want to level up, this is your chance!