On June 23, the IWI hosted a compelling online presentation of Jeff Schuhrke’s important book, Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade. The event drew the participation of over 50 trade unionists and cadres from 22 countries, reflecting broad international interest in this critical history.
IWI calls on everyone to join the workers’ demonstrations this May Day 2025.
The International Workers’ Institute (IWI) participated in the 20th Congress of FISE (World Federation of Teachers’ Unions) which was organized in Rabat, Morocco, on 5 and 6 April, 2025.
We salute the mothers who fight for a better future for their children. We salute the single mothers who work and care for their children bearing on their shoulders all the weight of the world. We salute the Palestinian woman and mother who is the embodiment of heroism in our times.
The book ”Critical Notes on the History of the World Trade-Union Movement, Issues of Tactics and Strategy’’ is worth studying and I suggest that the book presentation sessions be organized in every city and in as many as possible locations in the countries across the continents region. It should be translated into every language and taught in trade union schools and trade union seminars.
On 10 December the IWI Symposium on “Artificial Intelligence and the Trade Union Movement” was successfully held through ZOOM. More than 90 trade unionists from 35 countries participated in the seminar.
The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) and the International Workers’ Institute (IWI) organize the Conference :Women: struggles, resistance and war | Friday 29 November 4 p.m. (Athens time)
On May 9, 2024, the 79th anniversary of the Great Anti-Fascist Victory, the IWI held on the ZOOM platform the 3rd seminar of its 2nd cycle of trade union training, entitled: “Historical lessons from the USSR for the contemporary militant trade union movement”.
IWI International Trade Union Conference: Historical Lessons from the USSR for the contemporary militant trade union movement
Any organizational structure, any apparatus in itself can neither make a work “flourish” nor destroy it. The structure may help more or less but the structure will not be the determining factor. The final judge is life itself, in time and place.
