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120 YEARS INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD!

<a href="https://www.iww.cy/author/cyroc/" target="_self">Regional Organising Committee Cyprus</a>

Regional Organising Committee Cyprus

11/05/2025
IWW Birthday

The Cyprus Regional Organising Committee of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW CyROC) invites you to celebrate together with us the 120th anniversary of the founding of the IWW!

Where: Social Space Kaymakkin

When: Saturday May 31st, 17:30 – 00:00

Let’s welcome the scorching hostile summer right, with a top class (working class that is) celebration! Come one, come all, and bring your families and friends! There will be free drinks and snacks for everyone!

The celebration extravaganza will feature the following:

  • 17:30 Presentation of the newly-launched poetry collection “ΤΑ ΤΣΙΑΤΤΙΣΤΑ (και άλλα ποιήματα) ΕΝΟΣ ΚΥΠΡΑΙΟΥ WOBBLY” of Panagiotis M., by the poet themselves. Free copies of the booklet will be distributed to attendees! The event will be in Greek, with whisper translation in English.
ΤΑ ΤΣΙΑΤΤΙΣΤΑ (και άλλα ποιήματα) ΕΝΟΣ ΚΥΠΡΑΙΟΥ WOBBLY
Inspired by the “Little Red Songbook”, the publication is commemorating the 120 years of IWW, and the strong relation between the union and the arts of music and song.
  • 19:30 Presentation of the newly-launched book “The Precarious Migrant Worker: The Socialization of Precarity” of Panos Theodoropoulos, lecturer in Social Justice at King’s College London, by the author themselves. The event will be in English, with whisper translation in Greek.
The Precarious Migrant Worker: The Socialization of Precarity
In this immersive portrait of the daily realities of precarious migrant labour, Panos Theodoropoulos found work in Glasgow’s warehouses, factories and kitchens to uncover the ways that precarity is lived and contested. Connecting the realms of structure, subjectivity and culture, his analysis shows that precarity not only dictates workers’ labour conditions, but socializes them in an individualist, survival-oriented struggle that erodes solidarities and enforces its own neoliberal logic. Crucially, however, precarity and the wider neoliberal culture are unable to erase workers’ material awareness and experience of class injustice. It is on this basis that the foundations of new forms of struggle must be laid.
  • 21:30 Screening of the film “Joe Hill” (1971, Bo Widerberg), commemorating the IWW’s most famous troubadour and the 110 years since his unlawful execution. The award-winning film (Cannes 1971), featuring a performance of the song with the same name by Joan Baez, was mostly unavailable commercially for nearly four decades, until the National Library of Sweden produced a restored and digitally remastered version in 2015.
"Joe Hill", 1971, Bo Widerberg
“My will is easy to decide, for there is nothing to divide. My kin don’t need to fuss and moan, moss does not cling to a rolling stone. My body? Oh! If I could choose, I would want to ashes it reduce, and let the merry breezes blow my dust to where some flowers grow. Perhaps some fading flower then would come to life and bloom again. This is my last and final will. Good luck to all of you, Joe Hill.”

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