In addition to organizing industrially and regionally, the IWW is involved in a number of general campaigns. We issue a number of publications. We have several standing committees. Our members voluntarily maintain several official projects. This page is our one-stop index for each of them.

Quick Guide:

• General Campaigns
• IWW Publications
• Standing Committees
• Official Projects
• Independent News Sites that Promote the IWW

General Campaigns:

Fight for a Shorter Workweek

• Take Back Your Time! - Sixty years of stagnation is long enough - it's time to resume the fight for shorter hours.

May Day; the Real Labor Day

May 1st, International Workers' Day, commemorates the historic struggle of working people throughout the world, and is recognized in every country except the United States and Canada.

Campaigns Endorsed by the IWW:

The Million Worker March

The time has come to mobilize working people for our own agenda. Let us end subservience to the power of the privileged few and their monopoly of the political process in America.

IWW Publications:

The Industrial Worker - the official (English language) newspaper of the IWW; it's published ten times a year, and printed by union labor.

Other IWW publications include:

• Bread and Roses - Published quarterly by the UK IWW


• Direct Action - Published by the IWW in Australia

Standing Committees:

General Defense Committee

• The purpose of the GDC is to aid those who find themselves persecuted by the powers that be in their struggle for justice and freedom.

International Solidarity Commission

• conducts relations with other radical unions and workers throughoutthe world and encourages them to strengthen their relations with the IWW.

Committee on Industrial Classification

• appointed by the 2001 General Assembly with the task of considering a complete revision of the union's industrial classification system.

Official Projects:

www.retailworker.com

• An interactive Labor News by, for, and about retail employees.

IWW Centenary (1905-2005)

• Help celebrate the IWW's First 100 Years.

Independent News Sites that Promote the IWW:

labourstart.org - Where trade unionists start their day on the net.

syndicalist.org - Anarcho-Syndicalist Review.