The Stockade Stood Burning: rebellion and the convict lease in Tennessee’s coalfields, 1891-1895 Something happened in Tennessee, something almost unimaginable to the mine owners…
A short history of colonialism in Congo, 1885-1997 A very short overview of Belgian, and latterly US, imperialism in Congo, written by Marty Jezer in 2001.
The Coal Miners’ General Strike of 1949-50 and the Birth of Marxist-Humanism in the U.S. Written by Andy Philips with a foreword by Raya Dunayevska this gives an overview…
The French Miners Strike of 1948: Some Scraps of history What little information I've managed to dig up on what seems to have been an important struggle in…
The Spanish anarchists of Merthyr in the early 20th century (video) Video of a talk by James Yeoman on migrant Spanish anarchists living and working in the Welsh valleys in the early 20th century.
The UK coalminers’ dispute, 1973-4 A short account of the national coal miners’ dispute in the winter of 1973-4 which led to the three-day week, the collapse of the Conservative…
Anger from the underground: Bulgarian miners in wildcat strike The miners from Obrochishte - the third largest manganese mine in the world, located in eastern…
Japan's wartime use of colonial labour: Taiwan and Korea (1937-45) A thesis detailing the extent of the exploitation of colonial labourers of Taiwanese and Korean…
Statement on Mayday and Pikeville, KY, anti-fascist mobilisation We support anarchists and revolutionaries going to Pikeville at the end of April to oppose these…
The ANC’s South Africa: kleptocracy and exploitation The corruption of the Zuma regime has now reached scandalous levels but it was entirely predictable given the ANC's past.
The Westmoreland County coal miners' strike, 1910-11 Paper called Worker solidarity, judicial oppression and police repression in the Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania coal miners' strike, 1910-11,…
The Republic of Labin, 1921 A short history of a short-lived uprising of coal miners in Croatia following an attack by Italian fascists, by Steven Johns.
