🍉 Stand with Aidan
⚖️ Stand up for #FreeSpeech
🇵🇸 Stand with Palestine
Old Spike Coffee wants to suppress Palestine #solidarity in the workplace. We’re organising to fight back.
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Lou is the model of what a caring member of the community looks like. She’s worked at the women’s charity Refuge for 9 years, spending her life supporting those in need and always being there for her workmates, too.
Sadly, Lou’s son has been in an accident and has a long road to recovery. This will take time and money and is especially difficult given that she’s a single parent. Given all the good work Lou has done for her community - including organising for better conditions at her workplace - we’re asking the community to give back to her.
This fundraiser is being organised by the IWW, Lou’s union. All proceeds will go directly to her to help her cover medical and travel costs and so she can spend time with her son without worrying about expenses piling up.
Please give generously. If you live in London or Bristol, keep an eye for socials that the union will be organising as a way to raise funds for Lou.
Donate to Lou’s GoFundMe in link
Meet the Union behind No Sweat T-shirts!
No Sweat and the IWW are hosting an online conversation with organisers from the Tamil Nadu Textile and Common Labour Union (TTCU) in India on Monday 27 July, 6–7pm (BST).
This is a rare opportunity to hear directly from the union that makes No Sweat's T-shirts. Learn how the partnership came about, how workers organised to transform a sweatshop into one of the most unionised factories in the garment industry, and what international solidarity means from the perspective of the workers leading that struggle.
Register here: https://cloud.iww.org.uk/apps/forms/s/fazwsg7KrB2o2Cig8FFp5q9t
When: 6pm (BST), Monday 27 July
Where: Online
What: Meet the Union Behind Your T-shirt – a conversation with the TTCU
#webinar #workersrights #garmentindustry #ethicalfashion #tradeunion
Join us online as we celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Spanish Social Revolution!
This online event has been organised by the CNT-E and IWW-WISERA as part of a presentation on the meaning of the Social Revolution that broke out in Spain.
Let us remember: it came after the defeat of the fascist coup d’état by the working people. Subsequently, the urban proletariat took over factories and workshops, organized popular canteens and workers’ militias that went on to conquer the cities held by criminal fascism.
In the countryside, a large-scale revolution erupted, spreading across much of the Republican territory in Spain. In total, about three million people took part in this revolution, and they proved that the people are capable of managing their own affairs without the need for bosses.
This online presentation and discussion has been brought to you by a collaboration of the Industrial Workers of the World IWW, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (National Confederation of Labour’ - CNT) and the International Confederation of Labour (Confederación Internacional del Trabajo ICL-CIT), the international to which both revolutionary unions belong.
In marking the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the Spanish Social Revolution, labour historian, researcher and CNT militant, Miguel Gómez, author of ‘The CNT and the New Economy’ will exam the achievements, challenges and lessons of revolutionary Spain.
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Join us online as we celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Spanish Social Revolution!
This online event has been organised by the CNT-E and IWW-WISERA as part of a presentation on the meaning of the Social Revolution that broke out in Spain.
Let us remember: it came after the defeat of the fascist coup d’état by the working people. Subsequently, the urban proletariat took over factories and workshops, organized popular canteens and workers’ militias that went on to conquer the cities held by criminal fascism.
In the countryside, a large-scale revolution erupted, spreading across much of the Republican territory in Spain. In total, about three million people took part in this revolution, and they proved that the people are capable of managing their own affairs without the need for bosses.
This online presentation and discussion has been brought to you by a collaboration of the Industrial Workers of the World IWW, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (National Confederation of Labour’ - CNT) and the International Confederation of Labour (Confederación Internacional del Trabajo ICL-CIT), the international to which both revolutionary unions belong.
In marking the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the Spanish Social Revolution, labour historian, researcher and CNT militant, Miguel Gómez, author of ‘The CNT and the New Economy’ will exam the achievements, challenges and lessons of revolutionary Spain.
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) condemns the anti-community rioting and violence that has occurred in Belfast over the past few evenings. Such acts have been deliberately orchestrated, bears all the hallmarks of previous racial and sectarian pogroms of the past.
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Fascist organisers - emboldened by capture of political power across the world, and the erosion of workers’ rights, are attempting to weaponise and manufacture further division among working class communities.
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We are called to remember the events that occurred in Ballymena last year - shameful acts of destruction and targeting of people based on race and migration status, that represented working class communities in the worst way to the rest of the world. Fomenting racism and violence, reactionaries seek to cause irreparable harm to homes and people - and to the unity of our class.
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We call upon our communities, fellow workers and the labour movement, to unite as one and stand up to this tidal wave of manufactured dissent, by actively supporting organised anti-racist rallies in Derry and Belfast this weekend:
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Derry: Guildhall Square, Saturday 13th June, Assemble at 2pm
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Belfast: City Hall, Belfast, Saturday 13th June. Assemble at 1pm
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Only through workers solidarity can we defeat racist hate and division.
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#AnInjuryToOneIsAnInjuryToAll
#migrantrightsareworkersrights
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The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) expresses its shock and revulsion following yesterday's brutal knife attack in North Belfast. We extend our solidarity with the person currently recovering in hospital following the incident and to the community who witnessed such a horrific attack.
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As a union, we take this opportunity to call out those who have sought to use such a terrible incident to fuel their racist agenda.
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Politicians, online "influencers", and loyalist right-wing fascist groups, all have attempted to instrumentalise the violent attack throughout the day to further their own racist and xenophobic agendas while spreading racist hatred and using dehumanising language of the other to isolate and intimidate communities. Many migrant workers impacted by the growing tention left their place of work early to avoid any potential retribution as a result.
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Homes, cars, and buses have since been attacked following a number of protests fuelled by a number of social media posts.
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We condemn these attacks, orchestrated by racist and paramilitary organisations.
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We call on all workers to organise and unionise, to effectively challenge all racist behaviour that seeks to divide our communities. It is deflecting our class away from who the real enemy is: the bosses and the political establishment.
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#AnInjuryToOneIsAnInjuryToAll
May Day, or International Workers Day, is a day of workers’ internationalism. Proposed by American workers’ delegates at the founding conference of the International Workers Congress (IWC) (the ‘Second International’) in Paris in 1889 it was formally recognised as an annual event at the IWC’s 2nd Congress in 1891.
The idea that workers have no country, that we are workers of the world, is written into the DNA of May Day in more ways that one. May 1st was proposed and adopted because it marked the beginning, in Chicago USA, of a wave of nation-wide strikes demanding an: "Eight-hour day with no cut in pay". The strikes across the USA involved both native born and immigrant workers. They involved men and women. They involved workers who were white as well as black workers and other people of colour.
In WISE-RA (the Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England Regional Administration of the IWW) we are proud that we continue that internationalist tradition of organising workers regardless of national origins. We are also proud of our international solidarity work and in our opposition to imperialism and militarism around the world. (You can read more about our work in these areas in the pages of Wildcat, past and present).
May Day was also initiated in recognition of the importance of the struggle for the eight-hour day. This struggle is one that we continue to fight today in new forms; like zero-hours contracts where we don’t know if we’ll have enough hours to pay for our needs, like ‘flexible’ working hours that ‘flex’ to the needs of capital and not the needs of workers, like ‘crunch time’ where workers are pressurised into working long hours to meet impossible deadlines.
May Day is a day of worker solidarity. The idea that workers have common interests, regardless of their occupation, is one of the principles that has underpinned the IWW since our inception. We are, as our name says, an industrial union, not a trade union. We organise by industry because we recognise that what workers have in common is not our occupation – cleaner, porter, orderly, nurse, doctor – but our relationship to the boss class.
This year, 2026, is an important year for us in WISE-RA to remember worker solidarity. It is the 100th anniversary of the General Strike, the only ever general strike in British history. The Strike began on 4th of May 1926 and it involved workers from a range of industries coming out in support of striking miners. Another General Strike may not be imminent in Britain or Ireland today, but when we join pickets and take action in solidarity with other workers we are keeping alive the spirit of the General Strike.
Today - when we are witnessing the rise of the far-right across the world, when there is an ongoing genocidal push against Palestinians in Gaza, when anti-union laws continue to frustrate our attempts to fight back in the workplace - it is easy to feel like the tide of history is against us. May Day reminds us, however, that the struggle for workers’ freedom has never been easy and that we have been able to prevail in the past and can continue to do so in the future.
This year, 2026, is the 140th anniversary of that pioneering May Day march in 1886. Those struggles in Chicago 140 years ago were brought to a dramatic end through state repression. Albert Parsons, Lucy Parsons’ partner, was stitched up by the courts and, along with three other labour organisers, hanged for his part in organising the demonstrations. On the day of the hanging, Lucy and her children were stripped and thrown naked into a jail cell and released only after her husband was dead. State repression, however, did not defeat the struggle as state after state in the USA passed laws limiting the length of the working day. Capital cannot exist without labour, we can only be defeated if we give up the struggle.
On this May Day we stand with workers all over, and from all over, the world, and inscribe on our banner our words of international worker struggle:
An injury to one is an injury to all!
IWW-WISERA