“The Hand That Will Rule the World”

This IWW cartoon shows that by being organized industrially, a general strike initiated by the workers would lock out the employers and allow for the peaceful conquest of the means of production through which the workers would control industry. Then they would be able to use the world’s resources to benefit the many instead of enriching the few.

Illustration by Ralph Chaplin from the IWW  publication Solidarity on June 30, 1917.

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