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…
The 1916 Minnesota miners' strike against U.S. Steel - Robert M. Eleff An article by Robert M. Eleff detailing a 1916 strike which involved the IWW, in the Iron Range of…
The Haywood-Mayer-Pettibone case - Louis Adamic Louis Adamic's excellent history of the trial and acquittal of three leaders of the Western Federation of Miners, Charles Moyer, Bill Haywood and…
Battles in the Telluride mines, 1901-1903 - Louis Adamic A short history of the striking workers who took over the mines in Telluride, Colorado, and the…
The Molly Maguires, 1850-1875 - Louis Adamic Louis Adamic's history of the Molly Maguires: a secret society of Irish-born mine workers in the US who terrorised the exploitative mine bosses…
Agitation the greatest factor for progress - Mother Jones An extract from a speech by Mother Jones about the importance of agitation and the uselessness of…
King Coal - Upton Sinclair Upton Sinclair's first novel about the conditions of miners in America, and documents the strikes of 1914-15 in Colorado.
A proletarian note: On the reality of a tragedy in Soma - Hamid Moradei Erdogan's sadistic comment :"Explosions like this in these mines happen all the time.” after more…
Dynamite: the story of class violence in America - Louis Adamic Complete PDF of Louis Adamic's superb history of class violence in the US. It traces the origins of…
"If Gezi never happened, the anger at mass murder at Soma could not have burst forth from the people" In keeping with tradition, the following is an interview with Turkish IWW member…
