What's in a Name?

• The Industrial vs International Workers of the World.
• IWW Terminology Explained - A comprehensive dictionary of many IWW terms, both current and historical.

Frequently Asked Questions

• The most frequently asked question - What is the Origin of the term "Wobbly"?
• What Everyone Should Know - the rest of the Frequently Asked Questions about the IWW.
• Sto bi svi trebali znati o Industrijskim Radnicima Svijeta (Serbo-Croat)
  

Official IWW Literature

Official IWW literature is any literature, written by or about the IWW, that has been approved by the IWW's General Executive Board (who are elected to one-year terms by a democratic vote of the dues paying membership), or by a direct vote of the IWW's general membership. The following documents are official literature, but is not an exhaustive set.

Membership Documents:

• Preamble to the IWW Constitution
• IWW Constitution - 2005 Edition (English PDF File) | (Spanish PDF File)
• One Big Union - (English Web version) | (English PDF File) | (German PDF File) | (Spanish PDF File)
• Industrial Worker - the Official Newspaper of the IWW.

The General Strike:

• The General Strike - A Speech by "Big Bill" Haywood, March 16, 1911.
• The General Strike - By Ralph Chaplin, 1933 - Ralph Chaplin's 1933 classic on Labor's "ultimate weapon," and issues related thereunto, as reprinted in its entirety by the I.W.W. in 1985 (Web Version) | (PDF File)

Additional Official Documents:

• The ABC's of Revolutionary Unionism - By Morgan Miller. (Web Version) | (PDF File)
• Father Haggerty's Wheel - A graphic representation of the IWW's structural industrial union organization program.
• The IWW; its History, Structure and Methods - By Vincent St. John, 1917. (Web Version) | (PDF File)
• A New Union Vision - By Arthur J. Miller. (Web Version) | (PDF File)
• The Role of the Dual Carder in the IWW - By Joshua DeVries. (PDF File)
• Solidarity - The IWW and the Industrial Union Movement in America. (Web Version) | (PDF File)
• You Are the Union - All about membership in the IWW. (Web File) | (PDF File)
• What is a Union? - Written by the Bay Area IWW, 1998. (Web Version) | (PDF File)

Historic General Executive Board Resolutions:

• 1999 - Call to Demonstrate Against the WTO in Seattle.

The Pyramid of [the] Capitalist System - click on the image for a closer view.