E07: The West Virginia mine wars, 1902-1922
Podcast episode on the West Virginia mine wars 1902-1922. We speak with Catherine Moore and others from the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, as well as some striking West Virginia teachers about the conflicts, and how they are remembered today.
The post-war strike wave in East, West, and Southern Africa
Submitted by Mike Harman on Mar 2 2018 20:20
From the end of the Second World War until the mid-'60s there was a wave of strikes in British East and West Africa, French West Africa, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The history of this class struggle has been neglected by both mainstream historians and most revolutionary tendencies based in Europe and the US.
Drumheller coal mining strike of 1919
Submitted by Steven. on Nov 1 2017 23:42
A short history of a strike by coal miners organised in the syndicalist One Big Union in Alberta which was repressed by bosses and the state.
Birmingham district coal strike of 1908
Submitted by Steven. on Nov 1 2017 22:14
A short history of the multiracial coal miners' strikes in Birmingham, Alabama, in the early 20th century which were violently repressed by mine owners and the state.
‘Women Against Pit Closures’ during the 1984-85 British Miners’ Strike.
Submitted by kelvinc13 on Oct 20 2017 15:10
During the 1984-85 British Miners’ Strike, women’s groups emerged in various forms and for various purposes. Calling themselves ‘Women Against Pit Closures’, these groups across the country organised not only strike-oriented activities, support and community needs provision, but also came to act autonomously on gendered interests. In what follows I outline a brief history of the miners’ strike, the origins of womens’ activities within this strictly gendered strike and the ways in which womens’ roles were transformed through struggle, not only with the Thatcher government and the NCB, but also with men and the NUM.
‘Women Against Pit Closures’ 1984-5
Submitted by kelvinc13 on Oct 20 2017 10:49
A short history of the Women Against Pit Closures Movement during the 1984-85 Miners Strike
The Stockade Stood Burning: rebellion and the convict lease in Tennessee’s coalfields, 1891-1895
Something happened in Tennessee, something almost unimaginable to the mine owners and politicians of that
state. When the companies tried to intimidate their workers by bringing in convict labor to take over their jobs, the workers responded by storming the stockades, freeing the prisoners, and loading them onto freight trains bound for Nashville and Knoxville and places far away...The Tennessee convict war was one of the largest insurrections in American working-class history. And yet, unfolding at exactly the same time as the more publicized labor wars in Homestead, Pennsylvania, and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, it was largely ignored.
2016: the hottest year on record
Submitted by libcom on Aug 15 2017 17:00
A new report by a US government agency has found that temperatures in 2016 were the highest in 137 years of direct measurements, breaking the record for the third consecutive year.
The UK coalminers’ dispute, 1973-4
Submitted by Steven. on Jun 11 2017 14:29
A short account of the national coal miners’ dispute in the winter of 1973-4 which led to the three-day week, the collapse of the Conservative government and a 35% pay increase for the miners.
The Westmoreland County coal miners' strike, 1910-11
Submitted by Steven. on Mar 12 2017 18:25
Paper called Worker solidarity, judicial oppression and police repression in the Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania coal miners' strike, 1910-11, by Judith McDonough, telling the story of a successful strike by 15,000 mostly Slovak migrant miners.
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