Twin Cities Industrial Workers of the World

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In Cairo we toppled Hosni Mubarak by protests then strikes then taking over our workplaces. In Madison we can topple Hosni Walker the same way. Then the next dictator, and the next, and the next, and the next. Throw out every pharaoh in every political office and in every workplace. Until we do, this pyramid-shaped society will weigh on our backs.

All the pharaohs in the world stand together on all of us down here at the bottom. Either we stand up united to overturn the pyramid, or the pharaohs stomp their boots upon our faces.

We are all Egyptians. Yesterday, Cairo. Today, Madison. Tomorrow, everywhere.

http://www.twincities.iww.org/

“without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn”     -Solidarity Forever

We need a unified and coordinated strike across all industry, public & private sectors; across all unions

and including unorganized workers and students – to defeat the government’s attacks on education,

public services, and the working class as a whole. Organize General Strike Committees in your unions,

communities and schools. Spread the struggle!

“The general strike is a fighting weapon as well as a constructive force.” – Big Bill Haywood

Contact the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) union:

Madison

madison@iww.org

PO Box 2442

Madison, WI

53703-2442

Milwaukee

PO Box 07632

Milwaukee, WI

53703-2442

or find us on FB

Chicago

(312) 638-9155

chicago@iww.org

37 S. Ashland

Chicago IL 60607

Twin Cities

(612)378-8845

TwinCities@iww.org

79 13th Ave NE

Suite 103A

Mpls MN 55413

http://www.twincities.iww.org/

Right now in Wisconsin public workers from across the state, supported by private sector workers, students young and old, retirees, labor activists and more, are holding unprecedented protests in Madison against the utterly dictatorial move by Governor Scott Walker to gut their collective bargaining rights.

After giving $140 million to special interest groups in January, many of whom donated to Republican campaigns and to the Governor himself, Walker is now attempting to strip Wisconsin’s state workers of their hard-won right to collectively bargain over the conditions of their labor under the guise of filling a claimed $137 million budget shortfall.

A similar bill has been introduced in Ohio, and Republican Sen. Jane
Cunningham in Missouri has also introduced a bill to strip state law of all Child Labor protections.
In light of these increasing attacks on the working class, We, the Steering Committee and Central Secretary Treasurer of the General Defense Committee of the Industrial Workers of the World, stand firmly behind all workers fighting back. We extend Solidarity to all workers, union or non-union, fighting back against the Capitalist class trying to return us to conditions not found since the Industrial
Revolution.

As our primary mission is to offer solidarity and defense help to any workers imprisoned, arrested, attacked, or punished by the State in any way in fighting the class war, the GDC of the IWW is here to offer any and all help we can during these times, and during all labor struggles.

An injury to one is an injury to ALL!
Solidarity Forever!

Signed,
Central Secretary-Treasurer:
Steven Ayers

Steering Committee:
Chuck Bailey
Eric Zenke
Marie Mason

“Do you really want to overthrow capitalism?”

Someone asked one of us this question recently. The short answer is, yeah, we do. Our union’s constitution says that we want the workers to “take possession of the means of production” and “abolish the wage system.” We think capitalism is morally wrong. In our view, there is no such thing as fair capitalism or morally good capitalism — it’s like child abuse, child abuse is always wrong. Capitalism is always morally wrong.

Here’s what we mean. Read the rest of this entry »

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Solidarity
Jason