The price of power; cops gun down strikers in Bangladesh
Submitted by Red Marriott on Apr 23 2021 20:53
Police murders during a recent strike at a new Bangladeshi power plant and its context within shifting global energy policies.
Taking Sides - The Story Of The Workers Aid Convoys
Submitted by Johanna Schellhagen on Aug 6 2020 04:56
Activist Bob Myers talks about a little-known internationalist action during the war in Yugoslavia. Between 1992 and 1995, British activists organised aid convoys to Tuzla.
An example of international solidarity from below.
Video, 50min, engl: https://en.labournet.tv/taking-sides-story-workers-aid-convoys
Five Theses on the Class Struggle - by Anton Pannekoek
Anton Pannekoek's classic manifesto against state socialism (democratic or otherwise) and for council communism, an industrial society governed by a democracy of workers' councils
Striking Stuff - Jean A. Gittins
Submitted by R Totale on May 1 2020 18:56
A collection of poems that were written by a member of Yorkshire Women Against Pit Closures during the 1984-85 miners' strike and read at fundraising benefits around the coalfield. Taken from the 1 in 12 Publications archive.
Coal not Dole - The Miners Videotape Project
Videos made by the NUM to counteract the government narrative of the strike. Contains many interviews from rank and file members and supporters from around the UK.
Jenny Tells Her Tale: Stories From the Yorkshire Miners
Submitted by R Totale on Jul 30 2019 18:49
Memories of the 1984-5 miners' strike from Jenny Dennis, who was married to a Kiveton Park miner. Covering a range of subjects including the links the strike made with autonomous movements across Europe.
Content note: this text mentions sexual abuse and state violence, and contains some language that would now be considered dated.
Climate change must be a thing: it's on prime time TV
Submitted by Gabriel Levy on Apr 23 2019 09:04
The political establishment will try co-opting new climate protest movements, such as Extinction Rebellion and the school strikes. Let's stop that happening
E13: Women in the miners’ strike
Episode about the crucial role played by women in the great miners strike in Britain, 1984-5, in conversation with Heather Wood, chair of the Easington women’s strike support group.
Into battle with the bazooka bands (Pages of Labour history)
An excellent personal account of the 1926 miners' lockout in County Durham
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