“They Say in Harlan County… ”: A Look At the Miners’ Blockade Stopping Coal in its Tracks An interview from the Earth First! Journal about the ongoing coal blockade in…
Jenny Tells Her Tale: Stories From the Yorkshire Miners Memories of the 1984-5 miners' strike from Jenny Dennis, who was married to a Kiveton Park miner…
1960- Japan's Coal Miners Strike A history of Japan podcast about the massive coalminers strike in Miike on the island of Kyushu in 1960, and its impact on the Japanese economy,…
Ethiopia: Massive protests in Oromia region suspend gold mining operations Massive protests in the Oromia region of Ethiopia have forced the government to revoke a gold mining…
The post-war strike wave in East, West, and Southern Africa From the end of the Second World War until the mid-'60s there was a wave of strikes in British East…
Exceptional Space: Concentration Camps and Labor Compounds in Late Nineteenth-Century South Africa Lindsay Weiss explores the relationship between the 1886 'closed labour compounds'…
The Iva Valley Shooting at Enugu Colliery, Nigeria: African Workers’ Aspirations and the Failure of Colonial Labor Reform The Iva Valley Shooting at Enugu Colliery, Nigeria: African Workers’ Aspirations…
The Iva Valley miners strike and massacre at Enugu colliery, 1949 On the 18th November 1949, 21 striking miners and a bystander were shot dead at a British government…
Masera, Pedro (1877- 1938) A short biography of the Spanish anarchist miner Pedro Masera, murdered by the Francoists in 1938
Drumheller coal mining strike of 1919 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 A short history of the multiracial coal miners' strikes in Birmingham, Alabama, in the early 20th century which were violently repressed by mine…
