A timeline of the IWW 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.
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.