IWW

[jsm21588]

I'm giong to finish my wleding next year and go off to get a job, should i join the IWW?

[The Feral Underclass]

Originally posted by [email protected] 23 2005, 12:17 PM
I'm giong to finish my wleding next year and go off to get a job, should i join the IWW?
If you are going to join a Union the IWW is the best one to join.

[The Feral Underclass]

I'm assuming you're either British or American so here are the links you need in order to contact them:

IWW - UK (http://www.iww.org.uk/)

IWW - America (http://www.iww.org/)

Also the member iwwobblie (http://www.revolutionaryleft.com/index.php?showuser=3026) and the moderator SonofRage (http://www.revolutionaryleft.com/index.php?showuser=793) are current members of IWW in America, so it may be useful PMing them.

[danny android]

The IWW is a really old organization from like the 20's right?

[violencia.Proletariat]

Originally posted by danny [email protected] 23 2005, 09:32 AM
The IWW is a really old organization from like the 20's right?
i think they started in 1905

[danny android]

Originally posted by nate+Jun 23 2005, 02:46 PM--> (nate @ Jun 23 2005, 02:46 PM)
danny [email protected] 23 2005, 09:32 AM
The IWW is a really old organization from like the 20's right?
i think they started in 1905 [/b]
Yeah I was just making sure they are the same organization I learned about in school. They seem like a good union. I would join if I were you especially if you are going to be a welder the seem to focus on industrial proffesions and stuff. Go for it.

[The Feral Underclass]

What was the result?

[JC1]

The IWW = the AFL-CIO or the TUC ( if youre a brit ) with red flags.

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

Originally posted by [email protected] 29 2005, 05:55 PM
The IWW = the AFL-CIO or the TUC ( if youre a brit ) with red flags.
Don't know yr history very well, do you? As I recall Gompers and Co. co-ordinated directly with the FBI to crush the wobblies? And why? Here's a hint, it wasn't because the IWW are well-behaved class collaborationists.

[JC1]

Don't know yr history very well, do you? As I recall Gompers and Co. co-ordinated directly with the FBI to crush the wobblies? And why? Here's a hint, it wasn't because the IWW are well-behaved class collaborationists.

The Capitilist state Union Busts even the most conservative of unions.

The Wobblies are historicaly out of place, gone is the age of the verbaly anti-capitalist orginizing union.

[Red Heretic]

Well, I personally think that in general revolutionary unions are good organizations to work in coalition with revolution parties, but they do not hold the potential for revolution in themselves. While revolutionary unions cause alot of trouble for the ruling classes, they do not hold the potential for revolution in themselves.

[Weatherman Underground]

The IWW = the AFL-CIO or the TUC ( if youre a brit ) with red flags. You're full of shit. The Wobblies joined the anarchists in the Baja commune. Tell me that's conservative.

[JC1]

You're full of shit. The Wobblies joined the anarchists in the Baja commune. Tell me that's conservative.

When did i call them conservative ? They joined the Baja commune BUT that was a different time. Now a days, in countrys past the early stages of its trade union mov't, being in "reveloutionary" unions is useless. Follow the Example o William Z. Foster, fight for industrial democracy in the big unions.

[Vallegrande]

I think the wobblies pioneered what we now call unions.

[JC1]

I think the wobblies pioneered what we now call unions.

This is true. And the tactics and strategy of the IWW was approriate for that historcial epoch. Not now.

[violencia.Proletariat]

Originally posted by [email protected] 29 2005, 09:45 PM

I think the wobblies pioneered what we now call unions.

This is true. And the tactics and strategy of the IWW was approriate for that historcial epoch. Not now.
how do you plan to inspire worker takeover of industry?

[Guest]

The name still holds true for a goal that has not been completed, IWW. One international union that everyone gets their share. I think that name still has meaning, although no one hardly knows what it stands for.

[Donnie]

Im curretly trying to apply but I think I have to be a member of another union before I join them?

Wobblies rofl.

[Anarchist Freedom]

No you dont have to be a member of another union to be a wobblie.

[Vallegrande]

I haven't figured out why the IWW got that nickname in the first place.