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Ahmed White

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Lessons from the Wobblies for Labor Activism Today

Despite their failure to achieve their ultimate goal, the IWW and its resilient members can be examples for the resurgent unions of today.

by Ahmed White via University Of California Press Blog on December 19, 2022
Memorial Day, 1937

Eighty years ago, striking workers in Chicago were shot down by police. It transformed the course of labor rights in the US.

by Ahmed White via Jacobin on May 29, 2017

Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers

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Big Bill Haywood, Adolph Lessing, and Carlo Tresca, Paterson, New Jersey, 1913.

The Wobblies and the Dream of One Big Union

A new history examines the lost promise and fierce persecution of the IWW.

by Michael Kazin via The Nation on May 15, 2023

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