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What is Syndicalism and What is it Good For?

Posted on April 16, 2026April 2, 2026 by Rasmus Hästbacka

(c) Fanny Hökby Rasmus Hästbacka of the Swedish union SAC highlights six leading ideas of syndicalism and their...

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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.

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This is Not a Protest

Posted on April 13, 2026March 12, 2026 by Tegan M.

Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) organized a protest north on Central Avenue Northeast in Minneapolis on February...

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Illustration of people with different colored brains standing in a crowd.

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A Spectrum is Haunting the IWW…

Posted on April 13, 2026February 14, 2026 by Simon W

Image by MissLunaRose12, Wikipedia Commons Too Many Coincidences “In the end, the only people left in the organization were the autistic folks....

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Illustration shows a person with emo haircut mopping on what looks like the anarchist flag.

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Organize! Yes, but How?

Posted on April 16, 2026February 14, 2026 by Rasmus Hästbacka

Illustration by Edvin Grans. When the wild times we’re living through demand strong social movements, Sweden’s multitude of...

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Five Wobblies stand in matching black shirts that have a picture of a fish and say "Sakana IWW"

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The Grievance, It’s In Our Hands

Posted on April 13, 2026February 14, 2026 by Jean-Carl Elliott

In his poem “The Grievance, It’s Out of My Hands,” Martin Glaberman lays bare the dead end of...

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Polish cleaners in the Gothenburg Local of SAC. In the fall of 2021, they won a strike for higher wages for all employees, pay for the time spent driving company vehicles between different client companies and the right to use the vehicles to commute to and from work.

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New Print Issue Available!

Posted on February 13, 2026February 12, 2026 by IW Editor

The 2026 IW Winter issue is now available for download! Read or print it now at your leisure....

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On the right, Uncle Sam and a boss hide behind a tree with a baited trap set. The bait is a labor union contract and the box to capture the worker is labeled "NLRA National Labor Relations Act." On the side it says "Prevent Labor Revolt and secure the flow of commerce." On the right, a worker approaches two paths. The path to the trap says "class collaboration." The path to a sunlit vista with the sun labeled "Workers control" is led by a small black cat, and the path is labeled "class war."

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Why We Oppose the No-Strike Clause

Posted on April 13, 2026February 6, 2026 by Fellow Worker J.R.

August 19, 1922, Industrial Solidarity paper. From the IWW Materials Preservation Project, restored by x426914. These are my...

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Report Back: The 2025 Union Co-op Symposium

Posted on April 13, 2026January 4, 2026 by Lindsey Disler, Alasander Etxandia, Niko Val, Mat Forth

Report back from an IWW delegation to the 2025 Union Co op symposium CINCINNATI, OH–Both the Pittsburgh and...

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A solidarity fist in front of a flag of palestine with the text "Free Palestine" below it, and a hashtag with the words "FreePalestine."

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

Posted on December 4, 2025December 4, 2025 by International Confederation of Labor

Note from the ICL Liaison: The ICL voted to remove mention of BDS in the official statement, but...

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Gains

Posted on April 13, 2026November 13, 2025 by Jean-Carl Elliott

Critics of the IWW often point to our lack of contracts and NLRB-certified bargaining units as proof that...