Spaniards in the valleys - Martin Selby Interesting book written by Nicolas Dueñas, writing as Martin Selby, with recollections of the coalmining communities in the Welsh valleys at the…
Blood on the coal: Colorado strike of 1927 - Patrick Murfin A short history of the great Colorado coal strike of 1927, called by the revolutionary union…
Ende Gelände: a reflection on mass action On the 15th of August, around 1500 people took part in a mass act of civil disobedience by occupying the Garzweiler open cast coal mine in the…
The Mold riots: The summer of ‘69 The story of the 1869 riots in Mold, Wales. Following a trial in which miners were convicted of assaulting their manager, soldiers fired on angry…
Reflections on sabotage, theirs and ours - Jeff Shantz On capitalist and worker sabotage in environmental struggle.
Workers Playtime on the miners' strike Slightly too late for the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the 1984-85 miners' strike... Here are all the Workers' Playtime articles about the…
Digging deeper: issues in the miners' strike - Huw Beynon A collection of articles by 17 different authors analysing the UK miners' strike in detail. It…
The great strike of the Northumberland and Durham coalfield, 1844 - Derrik Scott Historical information about a big strike of miners in the UK in 1844, including the background of…
Battle of Blair mountain, 1921, photo gallery 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…
West Virginia's mine wars, 1920-1921 A short historical account and background of the often violent conflict between workers and employers in West Virginia's mines in the late 19th…
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.
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…
