#international workers of the world

[jstor]

Labor unions 🤝 Cats 🤝 Tumblr users.

Here, we see a black cat with arched back–probably conceived by Industrial Workers of the World member Ralph Chaplin to indicate "direct action at the point of production" in the labor market.

Image credit: "Industrial Workers Of The World (I.W.W.) -- Beware Good Pay Or Bum Work -- I.W.W. One Big Union -- We Never Forget Sabotage." 1917. Courtesy of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery.

[nando161mando]

[darreinhardt]

Getting Wobbly In There…

Sabrina-Tabitha

[carolinawrenn]

The International Workers of the World used the black cat (the sabo-tabby) as symbol for sabotage, slow downs, and striking on the job. "The softest paw can be a claw." Like in this illustration from 1913.

[alexverdant]

I Can't Feel The Sunshine, poem by Lesbia Harford (April, 1915)

I can't feel the sunshine

Or see the stars aright

For thinking of her beauty

And her kisses bright.

She would let me kiss her

Once and not again.

Deeming soul essential,

Sense doth she disdain.

If I should once kiss her,

I would never rest

Till I had lain hour long

Pillowed on her breast.

Lying so, I'd tell her

Many a secret thing

God has whispered to me

When my soul took wing.

Would that I were Sappho,

Greece my land, not this!

There the noblest women,

When they loved, would kiss.

Lesbia Harford (1891-1927) was an Australian poet, novelist, and political activist. [1] Harford graduated with a Bachelor of Law from the University of Melbourne in 1916.

An advocate for free love, Lesbia formed 'lifelong parallel attachments to both men and women', and her poetry was often Sapphic.

Her known lovers include Katie Lush, philosophy tutor at Ormond College; Guido Barrachi, one of the founding members of the Communist Party of Australia; and Pat Harford, her husband, and fellow member of the International Workers of the World (IWW, or Wobblies).

Lesbia began working in a textile & clothing factory in 1917, and joined the Wobblies that same year. She became Vice President of the Federated & Clothing Allied Trades Union in 1918. She was a fierce campaigner for the release of fellow Wobblies, the Sydney Twelve, and noted for her work as an anti-conscriptionist.

Sadly, Lesbia died aged 36 of lung & heart failure (cause still debated). The great majority of her writing was published after her death.

[1] Unless otherwise specified, I'm using the sources cited in Lesbia's Wikipedia page, as it's well written & collates many sources including items stored in the National Library about her life. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbia_Harford

[4ft10tvlandfangirl]

From Quds News, we can see the car is clearly marked as World Central Kitchen (WCK) even from above. Check this post for the WCK statement on the attack but also have a look at how the spins & lies have already begun:

You don't need to be an expert to know a roadside bomb would have hit that car differently. Like do they think our eyes and brains don't work?

WCK had 3 cars in their convoy and have reported 7 workers total killed. Now they have suspended operations for aid delivery. Aid from every direction is being blocked and affected in the strip, israel is starving the people of Gaza and killing anyone who tries to get food or give them food. It's insane and that word doesn't feel like enough but I don't know what else to say at this point.

[knifearo]

this year my challenge for everyone is to unlearn the association between love and morality. love is not something that is inherently morally good, and the absence of love is not something that is inherently bad. sex without love isn't morally bankrupt, it's just an action. people without love aren't less kind or less good, they're just people. when we can get past this false (and often unnoticed) dichotomy of good love/evil lovelessness then i think we are going to be able to take leaps and bounds in sex positivity, aro advocacy, certain discussions of mental health...

[seriousbusinessforhumans]

Feb 2021

In 2019 it found that Qatar’s intense summer heat is likely to be a significant factor in many worker deaths. The Guardian’s findings were supported by research commissioned by the UN’s International Labour Organization which revealed that for at least four months of the year workers faced significant heat stress when working outside.

Qatar continues to “drag its feet on this critical and urgent issue in apparent disregard for workers’ lives”, said Hiba Zayadin, Gulf researcher for Human Rights Watch. “We have called on Qatar to amend its law on autopsies to require forensic investigations into all sudden or unexplained deaths, and pass legislation to require that all death certificates include reference to a medically meaningful cause of death,” she said.

those stadiums were built in blood

[workersolidarity]

🇵🇸🇮🇱 Prisoners of war being brought back to Gaza

[dailyhistoryposts]

On This Day In History

May 1st, 1886: Rallies throughout the United States demanding an eight-hour workday begin. May 1st is celebrated as International Workers' Day in many countries.

[nando161mando]

https://asf-iwa.org.au/

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index

https://sequr.homes/

http://tutas.org.au/

https://wsfpakistan.pk/

https://www.twu.com.au/

https://www.amazonlaborunion.org/

https://libcom.org/

https://www.accc.gov.au/

https://www.splcenter.org/

https://www.auwu.org.au/

https://www.iww.org/

https://www.iwa-ait.org/

https://www.cnt-ait.org/

https://www.fairwork.gov.au/

https://unitedworkers.org.au/

https://www.australianunions.org.au/

https://audioanarchy.org/

https://www.akpress.org/

https://deathtofascism.com/files/40ways.online.2020.pdf

https://sbworkersunited.org/

[definitely-not-the-kgb]

I had to log in to my computer for this. Let's go.

I. Hate. Nationalists.

I. Hate. Conservatives.

I hate self-proclaimed "Marxists" who are both Conservative and Nationalistic.

Marxism, Socialism, Communism, and all Leftist ideologies are incompatible with Conservatism and Nationalism. There is no compatibility between them, and the adoption of Conservatism and Nationalism by economically Socialist people and parties is not only revisionist, it is a total and complete betrayal of Marxism in all its forms, including Leninism and Stalinism, ideologies behind which many of these bastards hide behind.

The LGBT community benefitted thoroughly from Socialism in Eastern Europe, that is undeniable. Countries like the German Democratic Republic, the Polish People's Republic, the Republic of Cuba, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and the Lao People's Democratic Republic have brought freedom, in large part, to LGBT people, within the frameset of their times. The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the People's Republic of Bulgaria made enormous scientific steps to understand LGBT people. Lenin had liberated LGBT people in the early Soviet Union before Stalin undid that in one of the worst mistakes of his premiership.

For self-proclaimed "Socialists" and "Marxists" to deny this is to deny historical fact and give into the lies of Liberal propaganda, based mainly on a purposeful misunderstanding of history and on survivorship bias. Am I saying that LGBT people were entirely free? Of course not. Persecution was still common in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Macedonia, Romania, Albania, and -of course- the Post-Stalinist USSR, and even in countries where it was wholly legalised, often the governments didn't go further to ensure protection, but this happened at a time where in the Capitalist Bloc tens of thousands of LGBT people were executed and imprisoned compared to a few thousand in all of the Eastern Bloc in the same time.

The liberation of LGBT people is inherent to Marxism, and anybody who claims that not to be the case is not only a revisionist and a reactionary but a traitor to the revolution and the cause: Do not let their pitiful attempts at Identity Politics get to you. No war other than the class war means no war based on gender, no war based on ethnicity, race, nation, or anything. The only fight that Socialism must embark upon is that of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie war whose intrinsic goal is overthrowing the established order and liberating the proletariat, be they a woman, a man, neither, both, in between, or someone else entirely. Regardless of who they do or do not love.

Nationalism is against all the values of Marx and Engels, Lenin and even Stalin. Do not let them hide behind their excuses from Kim Il Sung and Stalin. Stalin never supported Nationalism. He explained in Marxism and the National Question that each nation has different material conditions, and thus they each have varying procedures to be taken to achieve the revolution. This is one of the few beliefs he shared with the Left Opposition of Trotsky.

The belief that the primary division of humanity is the nation is revisionist, not just revisionist but one of the main rhetorics of fascists and nazis, according to which the superiority of one nation over every other separates "Good" from "Bad". There is no "National Communism"; there is a "National Way to Communism", no Socialist Nationalism, no Left-Wing Nationalism. Any ideology that puts the nation before the people and culture before the workers, that ideology is not leftist, socialist, or Marxist, but rather some type of Falangism more or less moderate.

Be warned of these reactionaries and fascists pretending to be Socialists: do not fall for their rhetoric and stand your ground. The liberation of the proletariat includes everyone, all people of all nations, everywhere on Earth. No tolerance for the intolerants, no war but the class war, no enemy but the bourgeoisie. Remember, comrades, the revolution is red, rainbow, black, pink, blue, and every colour because the only struggle that unites us is against the oppression of Capitalism. The only things we have to lose from this liberation are our chains.

[carfuckerlynch]

sophie hatter and rose tyler could organize labor.

[left-hand-of-dorkness]

☭ Happy International Workers’ Day! ☭

☭ Take a moment today to remind your boss that collective bargaining is what we do instead of burning his house down! ☭

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

Photographs taken by Yon Shimizu, a Japanese-Canadian who was exiled from the west coast of Canada to Ontario during the second World War, along with hundreds of other Japanese-Canadian men. In 1942, he worked along with several dozen other men as a farm labourer with the Ontario Farm Service Force near Glencoe, equidistant from Sarnia, London and Chatham.  These are photographs he took of the tobacco harvest, and were digitized from a DVD of Yon Shimizu’s scrapbook by the Southwestern Ontario Digital Archive and the University of Windsor’s Leddy Library. All dated 1942 though they definitely show a range of time during that summer, likely in August. Notably, in a number of these pictures the internees are mingling and working alongside white farm labourers and farmers. 

1) “Sheiks.”  Left to right: Tomo, "Killer", Stum, relaxing near the farm house of the tobacco fields they would be harvesting.

2) “Where's The End?” Yon Shimizu, the photographer, becomes the subject, standing in the tobacco fields.

3) In The Tobacco Fields. Left to right: Hama, Ono, Shimizu, Hoita, Tosa, Kuwabara.

4) “In Action!” 

5) Transporting The Tobacco Leaves.

6) “To The Kiln.” The kiln was used to store, steam, cure, and then pack the tobacco into bales for auction.