China: explosion kills 15 coal miners At least 15 workers have been killed after an explosion in a coal mine in the northern province of Shanxi.
Peru: Miner's strike ends A unlimited strike has come to an end after the goverment agreed to the miners' demands.
The Chinese mining industry - cheaper lives mean cheaper coal; so Australian bosses threaten relocation Last week the Chinese media reported that on average one mining accident every week…
The French pensions strikes, 1995 - Sam Lowry A short history of the massive strike movement against welfare reform in France in 1995.
Leggio, Franco, 1921-2006 A short biography of Italian miner, Franco resister, publisher and anarchist Franco Leggio.
Colton, James, 1860-1936 Short history of South Wales anarchist mine worker James Colton, who, as well as being a key figure in Welsh anarchist history, also married Emma…
A year of our lives - 20 years since the great coal strike of 1984-1985 Dave Douglass looks back on the great miners strike, twenty years on. Recalling information about…
Notes on the miners strike, 1984-1985 Notes on the strike of UK mine workers against closures and to save their union, the NUM. The article contains interesting information about the…
Cambrian Combine miners strike and Tonypandy riot, 1910 - Sam Lowry A short history of a strike by miners in South Wales in 1910 which led to a series of confrontations…
Come and wet this truncheon - Dave Douglass Classic pamphlet by miner and anarcho-syndicalist Dave Douglass on political policing during the British Miners’ Strike of 1984/5 - when the…
Halemba mine tragedy: the high costs of greed and outsourcing No worker should not have gone into the mine that day. But Halemba sent in some unqualified contractors. Laure Akai reports.
Polish miners killed, trapped in massive blast 8 miners have been killed and 15 more remain trapped following an explosion in a deep coal mine yesterday in Ruda Slaska, Southern Poland…