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Howard Zinn's account of American miners' struggles against the use of slave prison labour.

The history of the Ludlow Massacre of striking coal miners, which was one of the most brutal attacks on organised labour in North American…

A short history of Britain’s only ever general strike which lasted 10 days and was called in support of locked-out coal miners.

Unrest continues across Bangladesh, with widespread strikes and the mass revolt against an attempt by a British company to begin destructive…

A fascinating look at an alternative 'economic strategy' in US mining communities during the 1930s Depression.

A short biography of Angelo Pellegrino Sbardellotto, Italian anarchist and coal miner who attempted to assassinate fascist leader Benito…

As the government prepares to slash incapacity benefits, Rob Ray looks at a report brought out last year which is amongst the starkest examples of how incapacity has been used in recent years to hide much of the country's unemployment problems.

A debate between Dutch Council communist Cajo Brendel and NUM official Dave Douglass about the…

A document produced in 1912 by the South Wales Miners Federation, which was one of the high points of syndicalist organising in the UK.