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A | A timeline of the [[Industrial Workers of the World]] from its formation in 1905 to the present day. | ||
== 1900s == | == 1900s == | ||
* 1905: The IWW is founded at a socialist congress in Chicago, USA by 200 [[Anarchism|anarchist]], socialist and communist activists. [[Big Bill Haywood]], [[James Connolly]], [[Daniel De Leon]], [[Eugene V. Debs]], [[Thomas Hagerty]], [[Lucy Parsons]], [[Mother Jones]], [[Frank Bohn]], [[William Trautmann]], [[Vincent Saint John]], [[Ralph Chaplin]], and many others. | * 1905: The IWW is founded at a socialist congress in Chicago, USA by 200 [[Anarchism|anarchist]], socialist and communist activists. [[Big Bill Haywood]], [[James Connolly]], [[Daniel De Leon]], [[Eugene V. Debs]], [[Thomas Hagerty]], [[Lucy Parsons]], [[Mother Jones]], [[Frank Bohn]], [[William Trautmann]], [[Vincent Saint John]], [[Ralph Chaplin]], and many others. | ||
* 1906: IWW affiliated miners with the [[Western Federation of Miners|WFM]] work together to [[1906-1907 Goldfield Strike|strike in Goldfield]], Nevada, [[United States of America|USA]] over [[Wage Labour|wages]]. | * 1906: IWW affiliated miners with the [[Western Federation of Miners|WFM]] work together to [[1906-1907 Goldfield Strike|strike in Goldfield]], Nevada, [[United States of America|USA]] over [[Wage Labour|wages]], resulting in a conflict between the unions and US soldiers. | ||
=== 1910s === | === 1910s === | ||
Revision as of 13:42, 24 April 2019
A timeline of the Industrial Workers of the World from its formation in 1905 to the present day.
1900s
- 1905: The IWW is founded at a socialist congress in Chicago, USA by 200 anarchist, socialist and communist activists. Big Bill Haywood, James Connolly, Daniel De Leon, Eugene V. Debs, Thomas Hagerty, Lucy Parsons, Mother Jones, Frank Bohn, William Trautmann, Vincent Saint John, Ralph Chaplin, and many others.
- 1906: IWW affiliated miners with the WFM work together to strike in Goldfield, Nevada, USA over wages, resulting in a conflict between the unions and US soldiers.
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
- 2014: The Incarcerated Workers' Organizing Committee (IWOC) is formed to fight US prison-industrial complex.
- 2018: The IWOC organizes a second general strike across US prisons, demanding an end to prison slavery, massive expansion of prisoner rights and welfare, an end to racism in US prisons and the granting of voting rights to prisoners.