Another Successful IWW Annual Conference: Edinburgh 2025

IWW delegates were overcome with joy to attend the 2025 IWW conference in Edinburgh.

The packed schedule over the three-day event saw discussion of and voting on several internal motions along with reports from the internal sections and a range of interesting talks.

These talks included the Pan African Workers Association and the challenges facing migrant workers in the UK, Earth Strike and the ways we can tackle the climate crisis, IWW-Palestine solidarity and the fantastic work being done by our hosts in Edinburgh on the Zionism Free Zones.

We also heard from our Access Officer and our Equalities Committee, sparking off a number of valuable and much-needed discussions, before attending a launch of the book 'The Precarious Migrant Worker: the Socialisation of Precarity' by Panos Theodoropoulos.

We brought our solidarity with Palestine to the streets of Edinburgh during our lunch break and also enjoyed a talk on our late lamented fellow worker James Connolly, right underneath the plaque marking his birthplace on Cowgate.

This was after an insightful talk on stammering as a trade union issue and the ways in which unions can improve their own procedures. We were informed that Connolly, too, had had a stammer, which really added to the sense that the issues we face as workers today are very similar to those faced by workers centuries before.

We're really grateful to our beloved hosts in Edinburgh and to all those who made the conference happen. Solidarity forever and Saoirse don Phalaistín!