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For days the young people of Greece have been in the streets, venting their anger. Anger against the police who murdered a 15 year-old in cold blood. Anger towards a political class (those of all parties) which is infested with…

In next week there will be Court Trials in the Polish ‘Working Courts’ against members of the Workers’ Initiative, a union with whom the IWW has a formal alliance. It is important that people send protest letters and faxes from…

On the weekend of Martin Luther King Day (19th January), log truckers and container haulers from Eastern North Carolina and Virginia will be gathering to formally charter the United Truckers Union as part of the IWW. This event will be…

Spotting Bullying Bullies tend to surround themselves with supporters and spies while cultivating allies in senior management. They create rivalries in the workplace, bringing out the worst in people as they try to be ‘in’ with the bully. Being bullied…

When the fat cat city ‘bankers’, stock broker, financial whiz kids and economists: the people who really run the country, the people who determine government policy on the economy and public spending (or lack of) and taxation, the people who…

The second edition of IWW Education Workers Industrial Union’s occasional freesheet, workingclasroom, is now available online and in print. It contains news, views, letters, and details on how to get in touch with EWIU. Download pages 1 and 4 Download…

The main Health and Safety inspector attending the scene told Glasgow Sheriff Court that the lorry tail-lift that killed Dr Graham Meldrum at Allied Bakeries Glasgow depot in July 2005 was not operational. The lorry should not have been on…

Please circulate widely. On the 21st August Chris Lockwood, union organiser and member of the Industrial Workers of the World was fired from his bar job at the Showroom Cinema in Sheffield (UK). This has been part of a long…

A small demonstration called by London IWW took place last week in support of another radical union, ‘Workers’ Initiative’ (Inicjatiwa Pracownicza) in Poland. It was called to support WI members being discriminated against in the Polish postal service, and particularly…