The Industrial Unionist Number 2

  • Magazine
  • Manchester: Moss Side Press, [197-?]
By [Industrial Workers of the World / I.W.W. / IWW] [Britain]
Manchester: Moss Side Press, [197-?]. Magazine. Very Good. 15pp. Very slim quarto [29 cm] Saddle-stitched wraps, with uneven toning to the rear wrap, and several insignificant markings in the text. The official publication of the General Organizing Committee of the Industrial Workers of the World in Britain. Articles and letters for publication were accepted from any member of the working class. With the following contents: "Our place in human progress"; "Organization of industry"; "Practical policies of the IWW"; "The Wheel of Industrial Unionism"; "Rank & File Rule"; "Mourn Not Dead"; Workers' Control - Now?"; "Solidarity Forever / Bookshelf." A couple of the illustrations are identified as being by "Bingo" [a Ralph Chaplin pseudonym] and "Man X".

Moss Side Community Press was a co-operative geared towards the radical and Left movement in Manchester from the late 1960s onwards, eventually becoming a women's co-operative in 1975. The Industrial Unionist was published in Manchester, a city rich in history related to the labor movement. Manchester, considered the world's first industrial city, was a city that gave rise to a new urban working class which banded together to demand rights and representation.

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