cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16976545

Founding of the IWW (1905) The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), founded on this day in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois, is an anti-capitalist and internationalist labor union whose slogan says "An…

Founding of the IWW (1905)

Tue Jun 27, 1905

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The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), founded on this day in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois, is an anti-capitalist and internationalist labor union whose slogan says “An injury to one is an injury to all!”

The IWW promotes the concept of “One Big Union”, and contends that all workers should be united as a social class to supplant capitalism and wage labor with industrial democracy.

The IWW was officially founded in Chicago, Illinois on June 27th, 1905. A convention was held of 200 socialists and radical trade unionists from all over the United States who opposed the policies and politics of the more moderate American Federation of Labor (AFL). In particular, the IWW opposed the American Federation of Labor’s acceptance of capitalism and its refusal to include unskilled workers in craft unions.

The IWW’s founders included many historically important labor activists and socialist thinkers, including “Big Bill” Haywood, James Connolly, Daniel De Leon, Eugene V. Debs, Thomas Hagerty, Lucy Parsons, Mary Harris “Mother” Jones, Frank Bohn, William Trautmann, Vincent Saint John, Ralph Chaplin, and many others.

  • @pubquiz
    2•6 months ago

    When I see these posts I always think of the movie “12 Monkeys”. After the inevitable revolution of the unequal (when all the billionaire’s brains have been eaten with a nice Chianti and fava beans) people will look back and wonder where it all started. I hope it’s discernible, for the historical record.

    • @pubquiz
      4•6 months ago

      I’ll say the quiet part out loud: working people of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd world are done with being infinitely replaceable cogs in oligarch’s profit machines. They’ve taken our lives and given nothing back. Now it’s time for us to return the treatment.

      • Defund corporate welfare and force the shareholder/billionaire class pay for the environmental, mental and physical harm they do
      • Disallow government paid medical research that is then sold back to us by the shareholder/billionaire class at extortionate prices
      • Dismantle government apparatuses that serve not the people but the shareholder/billionaire class

      Nice rhetoric.

      Now go out and burn down a gas station. Burn down a drug testing lab. Burn down a police bunker. We, as human beings not blessed with generational wealth or outrageously favourable growing environments, have to act - not bitch and complain. The time for talk is at an end. Talk is what the shareholder/billionaire class want us to do to distract us from their theft of our future and our hope.

      We’ve tried playing by the rules. Except the shareholder/billionaire class makes up the rules and changes them to suit their desires.

      Make our own rules - fair, equitable, unbiased, and reject the rules invented and enforced by the shareholder/billionaire class to keep us in line and their hoarding legal. -