IWW: **This is Not a Protest**

https://industrialworker.org/this-is-not-a-protest/

Minneapolis shows us why we should organize at work My first protest as an adult was part of the wave of anti-Iraq War protests across the US in 2003. I was part of a crowd of over 100,000. It felt good to know there were so many of us, that I wasn’t alone in my … Continue reading "This is Not a Protest"

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IWW: **A Spectrum is Haunting the IWW…**

https://industrialworker.org/a-spectrum-is-haunting-the-iww/

Too Many Coincidences “In the end, the only people left in the organization were the autistic folks. We held the movement together by taking on all the tasks. But it wasn’t enough…” That is not how I thought Occupy Austin would end. But that is how my coworker Maurice described it, having been at the … Continue reading "A Spectrum is Haunting the IWW…"

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IWW: **Gains**

https://industrialworker.org/gains/

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 eighty-five years of state-managed unionism. When “success” means sitting across the table from the boss and the government, the question of … Continue reading "Gains"

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IWW: **Rebuilding the IWW**

https://industrialworker.org/rebuilding-the-iww/

“Today is not June 27th, 1905 [the founding date of the IWW]. The world has moved forward, of course, but for many people in the working class we have moved backward. Our class is less organized. If anything, the present is as much or more like the 1880s than 1905. It’s not 1905. Our present … Continue reading "Rebuilding the IWW"

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