Blood on the coal: Colorado strike of 1927 - Patrick Murfin A short history of the great Colorado coal strike of 1927, called by the revolutionary union…
The Mold riots: The summer of ‘69 The story of the 1869 riots in Mold, Wales. Following a trial in which miners were convicted of assaulting their manager, soldiers fired on angry…
Not with a bang but a whimper: The end of the mining boom and the next budget With the Federal Government's Plans pretty much stall what can we expect from the upcoming budget?
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.
