Class struggles in the Nigerian coal industry, 1914-1949 In-depth study of working class organisation at the Enugu Government Colliery in Nigeria from its…
Asturias miners' strike photo gallery, 2012 After the government announced cuts to subsidies for Asturias' coal mines, thousands of miners have begun strikes and militant direct action in a…
Coal mines ignite in Asturias (with updates) Coal miners in the historically militant Asturias region of Spain have been fighting a bitter struggle for survival. Please see the comments…
600 Mauritanian gold miners launch illegal work stoppage Around 600 miners employed by Kinross, Canada's third largest gold miner, walked off the job on…
The day we took the white tower - Brian Biggins Account the 1984 occupation of accountants Price Waterhouse offices in Glasgow in support of the South Wales Miners.
Germinal - Émile Zola Zola's masterpiece exposing the inhuman conditions of miners in France in 1860s. This powerful novel follows a young worker who enters a mining…
The Lancashire coalfield 1945-1972: NUM-Labour Party hegemony and industrial change An article by Stephen Catterall on the colliery closures of the fifties and sixties in the…
India: workplace resistance increases The labour movement in India is still under the control of bureaucratic leaders and political groups. However, as shown by a strike last year,…
Report on the recent South African miners' strike Report on the recent 6 week wildcat strike at Impala Platinum's Rustenberg operation, the biggest platinum mine in the world, including a…
The treasure of the Sierra Madre - B. Traven B. Traven's best known novel about three men prospecting for gold in the mountains of Mexico, and the things it drives them to do.
Bullets for bread! the Featherstone massacre A contemporary article by David Nicoll on the Featherstone massacre and the futility of parliamentary politics. On 7th September, 1893, locked…
Armageddon at Implat's wildcat strike? Mine eruptions escalate in South Africa 22 February 2012. South African miners are in the fifth week of a wildcat strike that has paralysed…