#Industrial Workers of the World

[audley-and-cherry]

My least favorite things about anti- UBI discourse is always the techbros whining that "nobody is going to work anymore! People will just watch Netflix all day!" and I have 2 responses:

1) Who the fuck cares. Who the fuck cares what people do with their time! That's kind of the fucking point!

2) People aren't going to stop laboring. Housework (look, it's right there in the word!) will still need to be done. So will maintenance on our homes and personal spaces. Children will still need carers, as will the elderly and disabled. There are millions of examples of ~work~ that we do all the time, uncompensated, that won't suddenly stop because we aren't forced to sell our labor to provide corporation's profits.

I'm not surprised that what is traditionally women's work is invisible to these dipshits, but it never fails to anger me.

Anyway. Join the IWW.

[iww-gnv]

Get organized! Join the IWW today!

[dailyanarchistposts]

You’ll need to decide what kind of time and resources it might take to motivate people to act for a particular goal. There’s some basic criteria that you can use to evaluate how much work it might take to have an impact.

HISTORY/CONTEXT:

Have there been previous fights there?

Are people involved in current or previous struggles elsewhere? Experience and confidence are infectious. (Example: Many of the people who started the Ferguson uprising were fast food workers organizing at work.)

Are people paying attention to other external struggles? (Eg Tim Hortons workers fighting to keep benefits)

You’ll get a lot of this information by talking to people.

[anderswasrightt]

i show up to your house to speak to you about a serious matter, but instead of pulling out an FBI badge, i show u this bad boy:

[nando161mando]

https://asf-iwa.org.au/

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index

https://sequr.homes/

http://tutas.org.au/

https://wsfpakistan.pk/

https://www.twu.com.au/

https://www.amazonlaborunion.org/

https://libcom.org/

https://www.accc.gov.au/

https://www.splcenter.org/

https://www.auwu.org.au/

https://www.iww.org/

https://www.iwa-ait.org/

https://www.cnt-ait.org/

https://www.fairwork.gov.au/

https://unitedworkers.org.au/

https://www.australianunions.org.au/

https://audioanarchy.org/

https://www.akpress.org/

https://deathtofascism.com/files/40ways.online.2020.pdf

https://sbworkersunited.org/

[anarchotolkienist]

Hey ho, folks- my local IWW branch has been organising a hospitality worker's union in the Glasgow city centre pub Saramago, for which the organisers were punatively fired. There's more information on our website if you're interested. Those in Glasgow (Scotland) and surrounding areas would be appreciated on the pickets tomorrow, and those who can't be there physically can still spread the word and support the fired workers while we campaign to get them their jobs back.

Hardship fund:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/hardship-fund-for-fired-saramago-workers

[voltairineandviolethaze]

The working classes are beginning to ask why they who build the houses are in the cold, why they must walk weary and shelterless in the shadow of palaces they have built but cannot enter

- Eugene V. Debs, “The Dollar Counts for Everything” (1898)

[oncanvas]

Joe Hill, Carlos A. Cortéz, 1979

Linocut on paper 35 x 23 ¼ in. (88.9 x 59 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"It was the IWW [Industrial Workers of the World or Wobblies] and the Finns that initially took the lead in supporting the Russian Revolution, which had profoundly influenced political developments in Finland.

...

According to A.T. Hill, local Wobblies “hailed the Russian Bolshevic [sic] revolution as something that had followed the IWW economic blueprint.” Mass meetings to protest the continued involvement of Canadian armed forces in Russia were organized. A “Friends of Russia” committee, composed of workers representing a number of organizations and trade unions in Port Arthur and Fort William, was also established. And, as Hill remembered, within the columns of the newly created Vapaus newspaper, members of the Finnish community could engage with recent events in Russia and forge closer bonds with fellow Finns working in other lumber camps. Many Wobblies viewed the Russian Revolution in much the same way as other socialist organizations in North America. Its success was seen as an indication that the end of capitalism was at hand and that workers in North America should take heart from the events in Russia. Despite becoming largely inactive in the region during the second half of the First World War, the IWW remained vigorous across the border in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Most notably, the Superior District Lumber Workers Industrial Union No. 500 continued to agitate and to lead strikes. It was among the lumber workers in Wisconsin and Minnesota and in classes taken at the Work People’s College in Duluth, Minnesota, that Hill spent much of the war.

Drawn to the growing unrest at the Lakehead, Hill moved to Port Arthur in 1917 and dedicated himself to the activities of local Finnish socialists. On behalf of the IWW LWIU [Lumber Workers International Union], Hill and those he recruited toured much of Northwestern Ontario in an attempt to organize workers and drum up subscriptions for Vapaus. Much of the IWW’s attention was focused on the Russell and Newaygo Timber Company and its operations within the district of Thunder Bay. Despite high hopes, in the end Hill was fired (both for his agitation and for conflicts with Lutheran Finnish workers). There now existed within the camps [thanks to the Russian Revolution] a rift between non-socialists and socialists, and debates over the various interpretations of Marxism.

The IWW appealed greatly to immigrant workers in Northwestern Ontario. As Holmer Borg, a Swedish lumber worker and IWW organizer, recalled in 1972:

The IWW organized through its members. Every member was expected to organize, not necessarily by having well organized meetings, [but] simply by talking among workers.

The IWW also tended to focus on the immediate issues that faced workers where they organized. In addition, many recent immigrants were drawn to unions whose organizers actually spoke their language. Most of the other established trade unions tended to send English-speaking organizers who had little or no actual experience in the regions they were visiting or with the workers they were trying to organize.

...

One report by the Dominion Police referred to the Finns in Port Arthur as “anarchists pure and simple.”"

- Michel S. Beaulieu, Labour at the Lakehead: Ethnicity, Socialism, and Politics, 1900-35. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2011. p. 53-55.

[kornwulf]

So I realize some of you may not be familiar with Joe Hill, the labor organizer, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World who was executed in a tragic miscarriage of justice 109 years ago today. His figure looms large over the history of North American Labor Rights, and his name should ring on for eternity.

I present here his last will and testament

-My Last Will

My will is easy to decide, for there is nothing to divide. My kin don't need to fuss and moan, "moss does not cling to rolling stones".

My body? Oh, if I could choose, I would to ashes it reduce; And let the merry breezes blow my dust to where some flowers grow

Perhaps some failing flower then, would come to life and boom again

This is my last and final will

Good luck to all of you

-Joe Hill

[the-dalm]

Every workplace is different, but that does not mean you cannot form a union there. Fellow Worker Matilda explains that many of us avoid organising in our workplaces by rationalising that our workplace is “uniquely bad” to organise in. But this is a product of fear and helplessness. When we recognise this and get support from other organisers, each of can break through the wall, no matter where we work.

[iww-gnv]

The internet has decided Chilchuck is a union man, and who are we to argue?

Edit: I'm not caught up and didn't know it was canon yet, have mercy. The waitlist at the library is three months long.😭

[dailyanarchistposts]

Going Public (or not!)

One of the key parts of strategy and tactics involves whether or not to go public as a union/organization/committee/group of concerned folks. This decision can lead to a lot of goodwill, as we saw with neighbors and friends surrounding our Burgerville and Stardust campaigns, but it can also lead to a lot of angry energy and union busting techniques.

One of the reasons to go public is to show your unity and strength together — that none of their cheap intimidation is working. This is a step in which inoculation and reorganization becomes extremely important.

[skullhaver]

For those of you who enjoyed my reblog earlier about gender equality in household chores, you might enjoy this also. One great tactic for getting your progressive male partner(s)/roommates(s)/friends(s) to help you do housework is to just print this poster and stick it on your fridge.

[paintingsandrecords]

sabo-tabby; ink and watercolor

last seventeen day’s listening:

taylor swift - the tortured poets department: the anthology

fantômas - book 1 sketches

worse off - over, thinking

suicide machines - battle hymns

juliana hatfield/emma swift - split 7”

7 seconds - live at cindy’s 1980

your heart breaks - sailor system

your heart breaks - the wrack line

maäsk - eclipse of man

juliana hatfield - how to walk away

various - new folks

the chicks - wide open spaces

atom and his package - redefining music

worse off - you win some, you lose… a lot

various - dr. demento’s delights

worriers - warm blanket

cast iron hike - the salmon drive

faith - live at cbgbs, december 26, 1981

eater - all of eater

[memphisfoodnotbombs]

MUTUAL AID REQUEST!

TLDR: Daniel Baker is a former political prisoner who is now free and requesting a one-time mutual aid to make ends meet!

GOAL: $500

Cashapp: $AlishareQerechok

PayPal: @DanielBaker108

Venmo: @Alishare

Please, help our comrade!

Daniel Baker is a combat veteran and former political prisoner who spent a year in solitary confinement. Dan has recently gotten out and needs help making ends meet.

Dan needs help covering rent and utilities.

Dan works 7 days a week doing deliveries for apps and restaurants on 3 different electric bikes. 2 of the bikes need repairs.

Dan has PTSD, making it difficult to work with others and the judge recently denied a request to end probation.

Dan routinely helps the community, handing out food (find vids on YT), slide 4 is Dan at a supply drive. Dan is also a member of the IWW, a Wobbly!

Fundraising Goal for Rent, Utilities & Bike Repairs: $500

Additional ways to help:

- Please follow Dan! (IG) @alishareqerechok (tiktok/YouTube) @DanBaker108

- Comment below and on Dan’s socials to help boost

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