Workers Playtime on the miners' strike Slightly too late for the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the 1984-85 miners' strike... Here are all the Workers' Playtime articles about the…
1831: the Merthyr Rising and Dic Penderyn An account of an brief uprising in South Wales in 1831 and the fate of Richard Lewis, known as Dic Penderyn. The uprising was the largest…
The man that was hung A 1917 article from the International Socialist Review about the murder of Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) organizer, Frank Little. We do…
Polmaise: the fight for a pit - John McCormack and Simon Pirani This short book/pamphlet was originally published in 1989. It was written by John McCormack, a miner…
Digging deeper: issues in the miners' strike - Huw Beynon A collection of articles by 17 different authors analysing the UK miners' strike in detail. It…
The Christmas Eve Calumet massacre, 1913 A short history of the biggest mass murder in Michigan history: the massacre of 73 people, mostly the children of striking miners at a Christmas…
The great strike of the Northumberland and Durham coalfield, 1844 - Derrik Scott Historical information about a big strike of miners in the UK in 1844, including the background of…
Social protest and repression in Donbass News about social protests is coming out of Donbass, the region controlled by separatist forces in eastern Ukraine.
The Speculator Miners last letters The Granite Mountain/Speculator Mine disaster of June 8, 1917 was the most deadly mine disaster in the history of the United States. Nearly two…
Battle of Blair mountain, 1921, photo gallery Photographs of the battle of Blair mountain, the largest armed rebellion in the US since the civil war. For five days in late August and early…
West Virginia's mine wars, 1920-1921 A short historical account and background of the often violent conflict between workers and employers in West Virginia's mines in the late 19th…