News from Bangladesh Unrest continues across Bangladesh, with widespread strikes and the mass revolt against an attempt by a British company to begin destructive…
The great "bootleg" coal industry - Louis Adamic A fascinating look at an alternative 'economic strategy' in US mining communities during the 1930s Depression.
Precious metals - struggle and repression in Papua The battle over Papua’s copper and gold deposits is heating up as locals fight back against their exploiters, reports Rob Ray
Mexico: Nationwide wildcat miners’ strike More than a quarter of a million miners and steelworkers walked off the job between March 1 - 3 in wildcat strikes at 70 companies in at least eight states from central to northern Mexico virtually paralysing the mining industry.
Mining communities, unemployment and incapacity benefits 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.
Still on strike! Recollections of a Bisbee deportee - Fred Watson An account by a striking miner and Wobbly (Industrial Workers of the World member) who was deported…
Outside and against the unions - Wildcat Focusing on the example of the NUM in the UK miners strike of 1984-5, Wildcat argue that far from helping workers, unions actually act as a…
Goodbye to the Unions! - A Controversy About Autonomous Class Struggle in Great Britain A debate between Dutch Council communist Cajo Brendel and NUM official Dave Douglass about the…
Wildcats in the Appalachian coal fields - William Cleaver William Cleaver on the often unofficial strikes of miners in the mid to late 20th century.
1912: The Miners' Next Step A document produced in 1912 by the South Wales Miners Federation, which was one of the high points of syndicalist organising in the UK.
