The great strike of the Northumberland and Durham coalfield, 1844 - Derrik Scott
Submitted by Steven. on Dec 7 2014 18:27
Historical information about a big strike of miners in the UK in 1844, including the background of previous disputes in 1831 and 1765.
Battle of Blair mountain, 1921, photo gallery
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 2 2014 17:43
Photographs of the battle of Blair mountain, the largest armed rebellion in the US since the civil war. For five days in late August and early September, 1921 in Logan County, West Virginia, 10,000 striking coal miners battled with armed strikebreakers and federal troops following the killing of miners and their supporters in Welch and Sharples. Faced with the overwhelming firepower of US troops and even the air force, the miners eventually surrendered or returned to their homes.
West Virginia's mine wars, 1920-1921
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 2 2014 17:05
A short historical account and background of the often violent conflict between workers and employers in West Virginia's mines in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, compiled by the West Virginia State Archives.
King Coal - Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair's first novel about the conditions of miners in America, and documents the strikes of 1914-15 in Colorado. Similar to The Jungle and its exposing of conditions and corruption in the Meat Packing centre of Chicago.
A proletarian note: On the reality of a tragedy in Soma - Hamid Moradei
Erdogan's sadistic comment :"Explosions like this in these mines happen all the time.” after more than 300 lives have been lost in a barbaric way for capitalist production, with Islamist ideology inside the state machinery, shows what the ruling Islamist elite thinks of us, surplus labour. The English of this article is a little hard to understand but we reproduce it as it contains important points. If you can help improve the English please let us know in the comments below.
"If Gezi never happened, the anger at mass murder at Soma could not have burst forth from the people"
Submitted by Chilli Sauce on May 20 2014 21:14
In keeping with tradition, the following is an interview with Turkish IWW member Yusuf Cemal about the Soma mining disaster.
Turkish miners: Soma workers murdered for profits
Submitted by Devrim on May 17 2014 12:20
Hundreds of thousands of workers have taken part in a one-day strike, and clashes with police have broken out, after hundreds of coal miners died in Turkey's worst mining disaster, which was no "accident".
Après moi le déluge! Fossil fuel abolitionism and the carbon bubble - part 2
Submitted by Out of the Woods on Apr 21 2014 07:39
In part two of this two-part article, we look at the parallels between fossil-fuel abolitionism and the abolition of slavery in the 19th century United States.
Après moi le déluge! Fossil fuel abolitionism and the carbon bubble - part 1
Submitted by Out of the Woods on Apr 14 2014 14:07
In part one of this two-part article, we look at the so-called ‘carbon bubble’ – assets priced based on 'unburnable' fossil fuels.
Killer coal-burning plant switched off in Vado Ligure, Italy
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Mar 15 2014 17:40
A coal burning factory in northern Italy, which caused pollution linked to the deaths of hundreds of local residents and was owned by entrepreneurs close to the centre-left political party, has been closed down by police.
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