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https://iww.org.uk/news/bigoted-bourgeoisie-courts-never-cared-about-workers-whether-cis-or-trans/

Bigoted bourgeoisie courts never cared about workers, whether cis or trans - Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

IWW rules that trans-women-are-women. The Industrial Workers of the World spoke out against yesterdays UK Supreme Court ruling that the legal definition of a woman is defined by biological sex, and that the concept of "biological sex" is binary.

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

La Petroleuse (Mat Petrolo)10h ago

Livre JOE HILL - BREAD, ROSES AND SONGS 22€
Dispo ici: https://www.la-petroleuse.com/fr/livres-luttes-sociales/4849-livre-joe-hill-et-les-iww.html
Plus que la biographie de référence de Joe Hill, militant révolutionnaire et songwriter des IWW (Industrial Workers of the World), ce (gros) livre (600 pages quand même) de Franklin Rosemont nous cause de l'histoire de la contreculture ouvrière américaine du 20e siècle. Préface de Fred Alpi.

#livre #book #joehill #iww #fredalpi #lapetroleuse #librairielapetroleuse

Livre JOE HILL ET LES IWW Franklin Rosemont

[Luttes Sociales - Joe Hill - IWW] Livre en français de Franklin Rosemont - Editions CNT-RP 2015 - 600 p. ISBN 978-2915731347 - Prix 22.00 € - Librairie La Petroleuse

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hanna🌱11h ago

Tässä jo vähän vapun valmisteluun 😁

#keikat #paleface #IWW

hanna🌱11h ago

Eilen oli Hoopon elämän mysteerit -albumin levynjulkkarikeikka. Yli sata vuotta vanhoja biisejä ja niin ajankohtaisia!
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#keikat #paleface #IWW

CNT Valladolid 22h ago

"La siguiente es la primera parte de una historia de ficción sobre trabajadores y su camino en la lucha por sus derechos laborales"

S Gato – 1a – Solidaridad

La revista oficial de los Trabajadores Industriales del Mundo (#TIM #IWW))

https://iwwsolidaridad.org/2025/04/12/s-gato-1a/

S Gato – 1a – Solidaridad

MikeDunnAuthor 23h ago

California's senator Scott Wiener proposed a bill that would've let wildfire victims sue the oil companies for causing the climate crisis.

Guess who teamed up with the Big Oil execs to defeat the bill?

Unions.

Specifically the unions representing oil industry workers. In other words, the workers collaborated with their class enemies: their bosses.

I'm not opposed to unions. I've been a union organizer for decades. But goddamn, these blockheads are acting just like Mr. Block (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Block). They somehow forgot the first rule of labor: the boss is NOT your friend. Be suspicious. Don't trust them. And sure as hell don't collaborate with them to help enrich them even further, especially not on your backs, nor in ways that further destroy the planet.

"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.... Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organise as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the earth."
-- preamble to the constitution of the IWW

That last line, added to the original 1905 preamble to the IWW constitution in the late 1980s, might sound a bit vague and "crunchy." But it was an attempt to acknowledge that some types of work simply shouldn't exist. That's not to say those who currently work in those industries (e.g. Fossil fuel extraction) should be thrown under the bus. Everyone should be allowed to do something productive that they enjoy. And everyone should have all the material necessities to live a safe secure and meaningful existence. But saving the planet from climate collapse will certainly require many changes in the types of work that are available. Coal mining, for example, has been on the decline for years because there is so little left in many regions that it's not profitable for the bosses to continue paying miners to mine ît anymore.

In a sane and compassionate world, we'd provide these workers with free Healthcare housing, UBI, and retraining so they could transition to some other productive endeavor. And union leaders would recognize that the interests of their members are much more closely aligned with, and linked to, those of the rest of the working class. (Continued burning of oil will contribute to more climate disasters, more wild fires, and possible the loss of their own members' lives or homes).

https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/04/california-oil-union-climate-bill/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #climatecrisis #wildfires #unions #ubi #BigOil

Mr. Block - Wikipedia

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Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝1d ago

@JBMcP

One more thing about this "conspiracy" belief which you invented, the attack on #IWW prisoner organization consists of actions by the GST and a vote of the GEB (the leadership of the union, for people not familiar with IWW jargon). I'm talking about official acts of the union. I'm criticizing policy, not pushing a conspiracy theory.

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Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝2d ago

With Trump newly sending people to prison, this makes the #IWW not as bad as the Teamsters, but not as good as a generic large mainstream union. It's the same form of respectability politics -- "the IWW is for classic union activities (i.e. organizing a few small shops) and nothing else" that helped the IWW anti-fascist GDC flame out so spectacularly in Trump's first term.

Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝2d ago

In the annals of "complying in advance", the US-Canada part of the #IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) is doing a paperwork attack on the part of itself that organizes prisoners. The stated reasons are a jumble of concerns about proper receipts, with some part of leadership stating that good recordkeeping will make the union less of a target for fascists. But mostly it's that union leadership doesn't like prisoner organization or really anything that people look to the IWW for.

MikeDunnAuthor 3d ago

Today in Labor History April 14, 1917: IWW sailors went on strike in Philadelphia and won a ten dollar per month raise. Ben Fletcher, an African-American IWW organizer, was instrumental in organizing the Philadelphia waterfront. Fletcher was born in Philly in 1890. He joined the Wobblies (IWW) in 1912, became secretary of the IWW District Council in 1913. He also co-founded the interracial Local 8 in 1913.

In 1913, Fletcher led 10,000 IWW Philly dockworkers on a strike. Within two weeks, they won a 10-hr day, overtime pay, & created one of the most successful antiracist, anticapitalist union locals in the U.S. At the time, roughly one-third of the dockers on the Philadelphia waterfront were black. Another 33% were Irish. And about 33% were Polish and Lithuanian. Prior to the IWW organizing drive, the employers routinely pitted black workers against white, and Polish against Irish. The IWW was one of the only unions of the era that organized workers into the same locals, regardless of race or ethnicity. And its main leader in Philadelphia was an African American, Ben Fletcher.

By 1916, thanks in large part to Fletcher’s organizing skill, all but two of Philadelphia’s docks were controlled by the IWW. And the union maintained control of the Philly waterfront for about a decade. At that time, roughly 10% of the IWW’s 1 million members were African American. Most had been rejected from other unions because of their skin color.

Fletcher also traveled up and down the east coast organizing dockers. However, he was nearly lynched in Norfolk, Virginia in 1917. And in 1918, the state arrested him, sentencing him to ten years for the crime of organizing workers during wartime. He served three years.

You can read my full biography of Ben Fletcher here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2021/05/13/ben-fletcher-and-the-iww-dockers/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #union #strike #benfletcher #racism #africanamerican #philadelphia #longshore #lynching #BlackMastadon