Welcome to Wobbly Wednesday, where we talk about the IWW, some of the things they're doing, and encourage you to join. There's a lot of general dissatisfaction in the sub, and a lot of wondering what people can do to start making things better, and joining the IWW is one way to get started.
If we only mobilize 1% of our userbase, we'll have doubled the IWW's ranks.
If we mobilize 10% we will have over 170000 newly minted organizers fighting for better.
Let's harken back to over 100 years ago, when mining strikes were met with machine guns and bombs. When soldiers who had faught in blood and chemical soaked trenches experienced the first taste of respect, only to come home to segregation and lynching. To 1919 Bisbee AZ where the IWW stopped a group of soldiers from being lynched and allowing them to defend themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj6TdMuuyJs&ab_channel=InRangeTV
Labor rights have been intersectional for decades, if not hundreds of years. And it's that kind of history that isn't taught. It's that history you need to scrape to find. Because unity between exploited peoples always means trouble for those doing the exploiting.
An injury to one is an injury to all.