Submitted on Thu, 02/27/2014 - 5:36pm
By Scott Kaufman, The Raw Story
New records obtained by the Defending Dissent Foundation prove that the United States Army used a multi-agency spy network to gather intelligence on nonviolent, antiwar protesters and to disseminate their findings to both the FBI and local police departments.
Activists filed a lawsuit against Thomas Rudd and John Towery — Panagacos v. Towery — in 2007, alleging that the U.S. Army had directed operatives to infiltrate and collect information about the activist movement in the Washington area.
According to the newly released documents, the U.S. Army paid Towery, a Criminal Information and Systems Officer, to spy on the antiwar group Port Militarization Resistance (PMR), as well as the Students for a Democratic Society, the Industrial Workers of the World, and Iraq Veterans Against the War.
Submitted on Sun, 02/23/2014 - 5:59pm
By Transcona Slim, The Winnipeg Wobbly
The IWW’s Organizer Training 101 (OT101) is fundamentally different from any of the union trainings I’ve ever participated in with my business union. In 2010, I went to the United Food and Commercial Workers’ (UFCW) Prairies Youth Activist Retreat. It was five days long and held in a smaller vacation town in Manitoba. We spent the first two days learning the UFCW version of labor history and why we needed to vote for the New Democratic Party (NDP). We had a provincial NDP functionary (the Minister of Justice) come and speak to us about “our” issues. Incidentally, he side-stepped my question about why the NDP cancelled the university tuition freeze. We were told that, because of elections in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, we might be expected to act as volunteers for the NDP’s electoral campaigns and that the skills we learned were going to be put into that project. (Read more)
Submitted on Sat, 01/11/2014 - 3:22pm
The International Solidarity Commission of the Industrial Workers of the World sends its revolutionary greetings and solidarity to all the workers of Cambodia as they struggle against oppression, murder, and the everyday violence of low wages and overwork.
We are outraged by the murder of protesters in the streets on Friday, January 3rd, and hope for a day when the murderers will be held accountable by the workers themselves.
We stand in solidarity with the workers demanding higher wages, and urge workers to do everything in their power to prevent factories from moving equipment and materials out of the country.
Submitted on Wed, 01/01/2014 - 8:24pm
Headlines:
- Bakers Rising: NYC IWW Bakery Workers Fight For Better Jobs
- Starbucks Workers Take Global Action
- Police Brutality At IWW Picket In Boston
Features:
- Special: Miners’ Struggles & British Syndicalism
- Organizing: Life And Labor In The Day Labor Industry
- Obituaries: Farewell FWs Justin Vitiello & Mick Renwick
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Submitted on Tue, 12/17/2013 - 6:43pm
I'm an industrial worker in the IT industry - - and a member of IWW
Come see my new message board, at http://www.socialistamerican.com/phpbb
There are forums for the IWW, as well as other groups organizing for change
Membership is free and just takes a second to register
I admit it is a bit small now - but that's where you come in
Join to help steer the direction of this forum
In solidarity!
Mark
