The most prominent IWW server is "Unofficial IWW," a genuine attempt to bring organizing online. To gain full access to the server, you must post your red card through their in-server mechanisms. From my limited interactions with the server, they are a really cool bunch of fellow workers.

https://discord.gg/FSvPUwu6

The second one is HelluvaWobbly. Born out of an attempt to organize campuses in upstate NY during the height of BLM, it's now a leftist gaming and meme server. It is a small but active group that has voice calls almost every night. They have a Minecraft realm and are currently playing 7 Days to Die.

https://discord.gg/ukPMEMtD

I've also been part of another group, but they were pretty inactive; if you Fellow Workers know what it was called or any other server, I'd love to get the link!

So I applied and paid my dues. Haven't received my red card or packet yet though. Tried to get in touch with my local IWW and they have no phone number or address whatsoever, despite claiming to be in the city

I emailed them twice. No response. I can't even get a hold of anyone on the main line.

Why can I not get in touch with anyone over there? Why does it feel like a quest just to get in touch with a local labour union? You'd think the IWW was an underground faction out of Fallout universe, with how out the way I have to go to find IT.

What is the point of a union if it doesn't reach out to it's workers and active aim to improve their lives? The whole point of the union is worker activism. It is kind of hard to do that when they're more cloaked than the infamous "illuminati".

Can someone please provide some insight or help? Much obliged.

I’m wearing my IWW shirt to represent.

There is no option to cancel it myself on redcard. It makes the organization seem like a cult that makes it difficult for members to leave.

Please change this. Thanks.

Spanish union of the International Confederation of Labour Launches 17 new Lawsuits

Just a few words about the court case which took place on September 19 against our Section in Spain, the CNT-AIT as we wait for their official report.

On September 18, the day before the court case, the lawyers of the Spanish union of ICL (the CNT-CIT) submitted 17 more lawsuits against unions of the CNT-AIT Spain, bringing the total to 35 lawsuits. These cases are scheduled to be heard on October 30, however, the first decision will be issued before that, so it is most likely that this decision will decide the fate of the October 30 cases.

As always, we wonder if the membership of the CNT-CIT actually made a decision to expand the lawsuits. The only ones present at the trial from that organization were the lawyers and the General Secretary of the organization, so obviously are the ones who know about this situation. In any case, it is only a small difference if the membership approved it or not: if they didn't, it is proof that it does not work on anarcho-syndicalist principles. It is did, it is also proof that they have abandoned any sense of class solidarity and only fight for copyrights and repression of other unionists.

Even the public prosecutor's office decided that the lawsuits were greatly exaggerated and ordered that the amounts of the suits be changed from 50,000 euros to 5,000. However, that is no victory as this is still outrageous to demand that an organization pay damages just for continuing to follow in its historic tradition.

There is no other major news on the development of the case and the situation is now up in the air until the court's decision. As always, we condemn these processes and well as the organization who has started this outrage as a vindictive action to inflict damage to the CNT-AIT, the organization that we in the IWA recognize to me the legitimate continuation of the CNT-AIT in Spain, not the „renovados” who have turned their organization into a vertical and legalistic farce of our ideals, using the state to repress our comrades,

As always we send our solidarity from all corners of the earth and await more news.

We never expect justice from the state, but whatever happens, nothing can break our determination to continue the struggle in the real traditions of anarcho-syndicalism, despite every effort of the state of their lackies to stop us!

General Secretary
IWA
https://iwa-ait.org/content/update-court-case-cnt-ait-spain

https://indypl.bibliocommons.com/list/share/2276672799/2350658319

I cannot get IWW Flags here in germany, so i made one myself.

Can anyone tell me where the convention resolutions are viewable? I have heard from some convention delegates that resolutions which violate labor law were passed, along other issues. I would like to check for myself

ON THE TRIALS IN THE NATIONAL COURT AGAINST THE CNT-AIT 

Next Thursday, September 19th, the trials against 16 unions of the CNT-AIT (IWA) begin as a consequence of the demands of the CNT-CIT (ILC), a union with which we formed a single organisation until less than 10 years ago. We will not go into the reasons for this situation, something we already did 3 years ago in a text entitled ‘Against all odds ’. Today our intention is to inform and point out some questions about the content and the meaning of the lawsuits.

The lawsuits seek to force us (from the State) to stop using ‘the name National Confederation of Labour, the initials CNT, its distinctive signs [flags and logos] … and its emblem [Hercules fighting the Lion of Nemea]’, with the argument that ‘they are National Trademarks registered’ (at the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office) in the name of the CNT-CIT. They accuse us of supplanting an identity that belongs to them and seek to confuse their potential affiliates by using their historical prestige. But the only certainty is that, of the two parties, the CNT-AIT is the only one that has always made it clear who it is and to which international it belongs (the International Workers’ Association founded in 1922). The CNT-CIT, on the other hand, one could almost say that they deliberately hide it as a marketing strategy. Who is creating the confusion? The answer seems obvious to us.

Another point that we think is relevant in the lawsuits is their intention to judicially prevent us from making public what happened, their intolerable behaviour, their political manoeuvres and their corrupt practices. They intend to silence us by making use of the National Court, achieving by the force of the State what their lack of moral legitimacy has been unable to achieve.

As if this were not shameful enough, they are asking for €50,000 from each defendant union (a total of €800,000) for the alleged ‘moral damages’ caused, with the aim of stifling us financially.

It is clear that this lawsuit not only seeks to take away our name and identity, but to deny us what we have built up over more than a century and bury us under outrageous compensation payments. The argument of the alleged ‘moral damages’ is completely ridiculous, a punitive and dishonest strategy to achieve what they have been seeking for years. Our disappearance.

Once again, and in conclusion, we call on the entire membership of the ILC ashamed of the actions of its committees to put an end to this, and on the anarchist movement in general to come out of passivity and abandon equidistance.

Salute and Social Revolution.

Press and Propaganda Secretariat of the CNT-AIT

on September 12, 2024

https://www.cntait.org/a-proposito-de-los-juicios-en-la-audiencia-nacional-contra-la-cnt-ait/

“Industrial unionism is the broadest possible political interpretation of the working-class political power, because by organizing the workers industrially you at once enfranchise the women in the shops, you at once give the black men who are disfranchised politically a voice in the operation of the industries; and the same would extend to every worker. That to my mind is the kind of political action that the working class wants. You must not be content to come to the ballot box on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, the ballot box erected by the capitalist class, guarded by capitalist henchmen, and deposit your ballot to be counted by black-handed thugs, and say, That is political action.” -W.D. Haywood, ‘The General Strike’ (1911)