All workers in educational institutions.
Submitted on Wed, 10/25/2006 - 4:03am
Over forty people squeezed into a tiny room at this weekend's London Anarchist Bookfair to sow the seeds of a network of anti-authoritarian left education workers. Members of the IWW, Solidarity Federation and Anarchist Federation were all present, along with a large number of unattached workers and students from education institutions all over the UK.
The meeting discussed pressing issues in the education sector, including privatisation, job cuts, pay cuts and casualisation, and a productive debate ensued over how we can form a strong network to combat these problems in our individual workplaces and on regional and national levels. The answers were encouraging, alluding to principles and practices of democracy, industrial organising, direct action, militancy and disrespect for the business unions that the IWW has used for the last 101 years.
Submitted on Thu, 10/05/2006 - 2:29am
By William Mullen - ChicagoTribune staff reporter, October 3, 2006
Using humor and music to attract their members, a labor movement known as the Wobblies that was founded in Chicago in 1905 went on to create one of the most important and colorful chapters in American union history.
On Monday, the Newberry Library announced its acquisition of "an outstanding archive" of extremely rare publications and ephemera that record the history of the Wobblies, more formally known as the Industrial Workers of the World.
The collection had taken more than 40 years to amass by a Chicago couple, Penelope and Franklin Rosemont, members of the Illinois Labor History Society.
Submitted on Mon, 10/02/2006 - 9:54pm
Al gobierno federal de México, al Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de Educación -Coordinación Nacional de Trabajadores de Educación SNTE-CNTE, al Assembleas Populares del Pueblo de Oaxaca, y al pueblo de Oaxaca
La Comisión de Solidaridad Internacional de los Trabajadores Industriales del Mundo (IWW) apoyan al Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de Educación -Coordinación Nacional de Trabajadores de Educación SNTE-CNTE, y a las Asambleas Populares del Pueblo de Oaxaca (APPO) en sus demandas por la inmediata resignación del gobernador del estado de Oaxaca Ulises Ruíz Ortiz, por los continuos actos de violencia cometidos contra el pueblo de Oaxaca por la policía bajo sus órdenes. El IWW exige que el gobierno mexicano cese las preparaciones militares y policiales para atacar a los miembros y partidarios de la APPO y la sección 22 del SNTE en el estado de Oaxaca, y en su lugar que se preocupe honestamente por las reivindicaciones de estos grupos. Además, el IWW exige que el gobierno mexicano ponga en libertad a los presos políticos Germán Mendoza Nube, Erangelio Mendoza González, Catarino Torres Pereda y Ramiro Aragón Pérez.
Submitted on Sun, 10/01/2006 - 1:47pm
The Twin Cities Branch of the INDUSTRIAL WORKERS of the WORLD (IWW) is pleased to announce the opening session of the WORK PEOPLES COLLEGE. The WORK PEOPLES COLLEGE continues the legacy of working-class education for emancipation carried out by the Duluth, MN IWW in the first part of the 20th Century.
The initial Fall class offering is "LESSONS OF THE SPANISH REVOLUTION":
Using texts, movies and group discussion, this class will focus on one of history's most significant efforts to achieve working-class freedom: The Spanish Revolution of 1936.
Come learn, discuss, and debate the lessons from this heroic, but ultimately failed attempt to kick the bosses out.
The class meets Saturdays October 14 - November 18 from 3-5 pm at the new Minneapolis Central Library -- 300 Nicollet Mall Conference Room N-202.
Submitted on Sun, 10/01/2006 - 1:12pm
To the Federal Government of Mexico, National Union of Education Workers Section 22 (Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de Educacion -Coordinacion Nacional de Trabajadores de Educacion SNTE-CNTE), Popular Assemblies of the People of Oaxaca (Assemblias Populares de la Pueblo de Oaxaca), and the people of Oaxaca
The International Solidarity Commission of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) stands strongly in support of the National Union of Education Workers Section 22 (SNTE-CNTE) and the Popular Assemblies of the People of Oaxaca (APPO) in their demands for the immediate resignation of the governor of the state of Oaxaca, Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, for the repeated acts of violence committed against the people of Oaxaca by police under his command. The IWW demands the Mexican government cease its military and police preparations to attack the members and supporters of APPO and the SNTE section 22 in Oaxaca state, and instead honestly address these groups' concerns. Furthermore, the IWW demands the Mexican government free the political prisoners, Germán Mendoza Nube, Erangelio Mendoza González, Catarino Torres Pereda and Ramiro Aragón Pérez.