IWW Ruhrgebiet

The IWW local of Bochum informs about industrial action in the greater Ruhr area, Germany.

2025-06-10

Free David!

#DavidHuerta

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2025-06-10

The Dangerous Truth About the ‘Nonlethal’ Weapons Used Against LA Protesters
buff.ly/hJkRE6D

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2025-06-09

All power to workers in LA who are resisting the terroristic campaigns being carried out on their neighbourhoods by ICE.

Thanks to @isaias_a7iv (ig handle) for letting us use their amazing photography.

Solidarity,
Clydeside IWW

Protestor kneels in front of burnt out car, graffitied with a slogan which reads "FUCK.ICE"
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Jen Sorensenjensorensen
2025-06-08

Latest comic on "solving" the problem of fascism by insulting the very people trying to fight it.

Well Excuuuse Me

Two women talking over beers on a bar patio

Woman 1: I'M TIRED OF BEING TOLD I'M BAD SOMEHOW FOR SIMPLY HAVING THE VALUES I GREW UP WITH-FAIRNESS, EQUALITY, DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS…

Woman 2: VALUES ARE NO LONGER PERMITTED FOR US. OR EMOTION. WE MUST SPEAK ONLY IN LIBRARY VOICES.

BUT NOT INSIDE AN ACTUAL LIBRARY, SINCE THOSE ARE CONSIDERED EVIL NOW.

Woman 1: SO I'M SUPPOSED TO SAY NOTHING ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING FOR FEAR OF ALIENATING SOME IMAGINARY FUTURE VOTER?

Woman 2: CORRECT. AND YOU MIGHT CONSIDER GETTING TONS OF DERMAL FILLERS AND ACTING KIND OF VAPID AND EXPRESSIONLESS.

THAT SEEMS TO BE HOT NOW.

SORENSEN
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2025-06-08

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy”

wnep.com/article/news/local/wa

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2025-06-06

Colombia’s labor unions participate in 48-hour strike in support of president’s labor referendum

lemmy.ml/post/31236543

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Robert Reichrbreich@masto.ai
2025-06-03
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Working Class Historyworkingclasshistory
2025-06-03

3 Jun 1924 Jewish socialist Czech author Franz Kafka died of tuberculosis in Austria. Connected with left libertarian circles in Prague, The Trial, his most famous work, is a masterful condemnation of state bureaucracy stories.workingclasshistory.co

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2025-06-03

"Seen in this light, the tariffs are neither a more or less rational policy choice, nor solely an elaborate grift. They are part of a two-front, worldwide class war unfolding between national bourgeoisies, on the one hand, and between them and the proletarians of their respective countries on the other. That is, the tariffs are a recipe for a renewed ruling class offensive on the workers of the world against a backdrop of accelerating global decline. They express the economic breakdown of capitalist society in political form."

Jamie Merchant weighs in on the tariffs and their role within a wider nationalist-capitalist project on @heatwvmag.

itsgoingdown.org/tariffs-as-a-

Screenshot of video of people reacting to higher prices at WalMart.
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Jen Sorensenjensorensen
2025-06-01

Latest comic: What lives matter?

FIRST CAME BLACK LIVES MATTER

Black woman holding sign: I WANT TO LIVE!


THEN CAME THE REACTIONARY ALL LIVES MATTER

Guy with confederate flag: BLM IS THE PROBLEM


NOW WE HAVE NO LIVES MATTER (EXCEPT FOR A FEW)

Oligarch in Hawaiian shirt throwing papers in garbage can: CONSUMER PROTECTIONS,
POLLUTION CONTROLS, SAFETY REGS, HEALTHCARE



EVENTUALLY…

TETRAPOD LIVES MATTER

Tetrapods crawling out of sea: WELL, I GUESS IT'S UP TO US TO REPOPULATE THIS PLACE.


©2025 Jen Sorensen
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(formerly known as) GWU DeGWU_Deutschland@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-05-31

Congratulations to everyone at Zenimax Workers United who took on tech giant #Microsoft and won!

After endless delays they will finally get the #union contract they fought for.

#Union power! ✊🏼✊🏻✊🏾

News coverage by Kotaku: kotaku.com/bethesda-devs-win-f

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Jen Sorensenjensorensen
2025-05-27

This week's comic: Highly selective health nuts

Highly Selective Health Nuts

MANY ON THE RIGHT ARE INTO "HEALTHY LIFESTYLES" - WITH SOME CONTRADICTIONS.

Woman chopping vegetables: I ONLY EAT ORGANIC. AND I HATE ENVIRONMENTALISTS.


Dude: I DON'T TRUST MAINSTREAM MEDICINE OR BIG PHARMA BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL ABOUT PROFITS.


Surrounded by products: NAD ZAPPER 9000

ALPHA BOAR PLUS


UNLIKE THESE PRODUCTS, WHICH EXIST SOLELY FOR THE GOOD OF HUMANITY.



Weightlifting dude: I LIFT TO MAKE MY BODY STRONG SO I CAN DEFEND MYSELF.

I ALSO OPPOSE MASKS, SEAT BELTS, HELMETS, GUN CONTROL, SPEED LIMITS, HEALTHCARE REFORM, AND SCHOOL NUTRITION PROGRAMS FOR KIDS.


Woman with smokestacks in background: IT'S ALL ABOUT INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY!

I DON'T WORRY ABOUT POLLUTION SINCE I’M DOING A KOLA NUT CLEANSE.
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2025-05-27

A fantastic lesson in the ability of organised labour to resist and break an institution as powerful as the British Army. By refusing to transport munitions, weapons, and soldiers, railway workers brought the British war effort in Ireland to a standstill in 1920. The author also mentions the Algerian dockers in Oran who refused to load arms destined for the French colonial war in Indochina in 1949/50, and the power of such action could not be more necessary to halt the ongoing genocide in Gaza which is facilitated by Western arms.

Solidarity,
IWW Clydeside

The Irish Munitions Embargo of 1920 by Peter Rigney

How Railwaymen and Dockers defied an Empire: The Irish Munitions Embargo of 1920 by Peter Rigney. Grey book on wooden table.Map to show train routes that were shut down or permitted goods only during the 1920 strike. Lines around Dublin and Belfast are the least affected.
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Working Class Historyworkingclasshistory
2025-05-24

24 May 1968 the May 68 uprising in France peaked. 10 million workers were on strike with many occupying their factories. The city of Nantes and its surroundings were controlled by the workers. The state plotted repression. Artwork from the movement: shop.workingclasshistory.com/c

IWW Ruhrgebiet boosted:
Jen Sorensenjensorensen
2025-05-24

Latest comic: Beware of Glernog

First (and Last) Contact


Alien emerging from spaceship in a field: GREETINGS, EARTHLINGS!

I AM GLERNOG, THE RICHEST BEING FROM BLARV-9.


I LET MY CIVILIZATION PERISH IN THE ATMOSPHERIC FIRES WHILE SEIZING THE LAST MINERALS TO POWER MY VOYAGE INTO SPACE!


HERE IS A SAMPLE OF WHAT OUR MUSIC SOUNDED LIKE WHEN WE STILL HAD MUSICIANS.

Bleep  Bleep


AND THIS IS A COMPOSITE OF THE FINEST WORKS OF ART FROM WHEN WE STILL HAD ARTISTS.

YOU HAVE YOUR OWN WEALTHY BEING DESTROYING YOUR PLANET FOR SPACE TRAVEL, YET I AM EVEN WEALTHIER AND REQUIRE THOSE RESOURCES MYSELF. EXTRACTION AND EXTERMINATION SHALL BEGIN IN FIVE QUOGS.


BUT FIRST, I TAKE A SELFIE.

©2025 Jen Sorensen 

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Jen Sorensenjensorensen
2025-05-11

This week's comic: A dangerous invasion of warblers, orioles, and hummingbirds

FEDS CRACK DOWN ON SPRING MIGRATION

DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY

OFFICIAL: A BILLION BIRDS SNEAK ACROSS THE BORDER EVERY NIGHT UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS!


"LEGIONS OF WINGED MIGRANTS ARE INVADING FROM THE SOUTH TO BREED IN OUR COUNTRY, STEALING INSECTS AND NECTAR FROM AMERICAN BACKYARDS."

MAP OF NORTH AMERICA SHOWING AVIAN CARAVAN


BORDER PATROL AGENT: WE CAUGHT THIS YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER TRYING TO SLIP ACROSS THE MEXICAN BORDER.

IT'S STRAIGHT TO GUANTANAMO FOR YOU, LITTLE JAILBIRD!


A SOLUTION IS PROPOSED.
OFFICIAL ON TV: WE NEED A $2.7 TRILLION NET TO ENCLOSE ALL OF AMERICAN AIRSPACE.

WOMAN: WHY DON'T THESE BIRDS JUST STAY WHERE THEY CAME FROM? BUILD THE NET!
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2025-05-07

Solidarity Statement from IWW Poland and Allies with Kobanê iww.org.uk/news/solidarity-sta

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2025-05-07
IWW Ruhrgebiet boosted:
Jen Sorensenjensorensen
2025-05-07
REAL MAN VS. ECONOMY


ARE YOU TOUGH ENOUGH TO HANDLE A GREAT DEPRESSION?

TV ANNOUNCER: TRUMP'S TARIFFS WILL MAKE YOU A MAN!

MAN: YEAH, BRING IT ON!


IT'S THE ULTIMATE TEST OF SURVIVAL.

MAN WITH RIFLE TAPPING MEATYFREEZ BRAND MEAT FREEZER:
I'VE ALREADY GOT AN ICEBOX FULL OF VOLE CARCASSES!



ONLY THE TRULY STRONG CAN ENDURE POST-COLLAPSE SERFDOM UNDER ALL-POWERFUL CORPORATE OVERLORDS.

MAN IN SLUDGE PIT WITH DANGER SIGN IN BACKGROUND: I LOVE THE SMELL OF INDUSTRIAL SLUDGE IN THE MORNING!



REAL MEN WELCOME AN EARLY DEATH!

MAN ON STRETCHER BEING CARTED OFF BY PARAMEDIC WITH GRIM REAPER HOVERING NEARBY: LIFE-IT'S FOR WOMANLY WEAKLINGS!


SORENSEN
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