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Early in 2013 when it started meeting in Cardiff as a group affiliated to Bristol IWW, the IWW in Wales counted less than 10 members. Later in the year, this had grown to two dozen, and on the 23rd November…

19/11/2018: Earlier today members of the Industrial Workers of the World have taken a delegation of local activists to visit the Greencastle Peoples Office (GPO) in the heart of the Sperrin Mountains where the community continues to oppose the destruction…

(Photo credit: The White Mountain School / Wikimedia Commons) After years on low pay, self-organised workers at a London climbing centre have won the London Living Wage with the help of the London branch of the IWW. The climbing centre delivers…

Members of the IWW in North America have started a drive to raise funds for the establishment of a memorial to the IWW organiser, journalist, poet and activist William Covington Hall. William Covington “Covami” Hall was born 1871 in Woodville,…

The IWW expresses its solidarity with Iranian truckers, currently striking against the government.  The IWW has received the following report from inside the country on the latest of a series of actions by truckers and other workers inside Iran: Iran, Nov.…

On March 28th, 2017, the Home Office chartered one in an ongoing series of deportation flights from Stansted Airport, intending to fly detainees to Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone. Fifteen activists put their bodies on the line to prevent this…

The IWW Couriers Network recently sent representatives from the Network to the first International summit in the world of couriers self-organised collectives and unions working with couriers! The summit, organised by AlterSummit and the Transnational Social Strike saw riders and…

On Saturday October 20th over 60 IWW members from all around the UK and Ireland gathered for the annual Organising Summit held this year in Sheffield. The day started with a keynote session delivered by Bob Jeffery, Chair of Sheffield…

The 4th October saw an unprecented day of action in the history of the IWW in the UK and Ireland.  Never before had the union seen action up on this scale with members of the IWW Couriers Network uniting with…