Records
47 Days in Jail (Foster, 1910)
William Z. Foster's account of 47 days of confinement during the 1909–1910 IWW Spokane free-speech fight.
Cannon on Haywood (Obituary, 1928)
James P. Cannon's obituary essay for Big Bill Haywood, May 22, 1928.
Centralia: A Story of Wartime Murder (1922)
IWW account of the 1919 Centralia Massacre and the wartime persecution of Wesley Everest and Wobbly defendants.
First IWW Convention Proceedings (1905)
Proceedings of the founding convention of the Industrial Workers of the World, Chicago, June–July 1905. Includes speeches by Big Bill Haywood, Eugene Debs, Mother Jones, and Daniel De Leon.
Helen Keller, Her Socialist Years: Writings and Speeches
1967 International Publishers collection of Helen Keller's socialist writings, edited by Philip S. Foner. Reproduces the political speeches, articles, and letters Keller wrote across her four-decade career as a member of the Socialist Party of America (joined 1909) and later supporter of the Industrial Workers of the World — material systematically suppresse...
IWW 1907 Convention Proceedings
Proceedings of the Industrial Workers of the World's third national convention, 1907.
The Haywood Affair (Loebl, 1921)
Loebl's 1921 essay on Big Bill Haywood's flight to Soviet Russia while on bail in the federal IWW prosecutions.
The IWW Bogey (Debs, 1918)
Eugene V. Debs's defense of the IWW against wartime persecution, written in 1918.
The Rebel Girl: An Autobiography, My First Life (1906–1926)
The 1955 autobiography of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn covering her early life and her organizing with the Industrial Workers of the World from the Spokane free-speech fights of 1909 through the Lawrence and Paterson textile strikes, the Joe Hill defense, the Tom Mooney case, the Sacco-Vanzetti campaign, the WWI Espionage Act prisoner defense, and the founding of...
The Rockpile (Foster, 1910)
William Z. Foster's account of forced-labor punishment at a rockpile during his Spokane jail term for IWW free-speech organizing.
The Sweat Box (Foster, 1909)
William Z. Foster's pamphlet on his jail experience during the 1909 IWW Spokane free-speech fight.
Wobblies and Zapatistas
Dialogue between the IWW tradition of revolutionary unionism and the Zapatista movement in Chiapas — relevant to U.S. political-prisoner history through the IWW's long line of incarcerated organizers from Bill Haywood onward. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).