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…
Turkish miners: Soma workers murdered for profits Hundreds of thousands of workers have taken part in a one-day strike, and clashes with police have broken out, after hundreds of coal miners died…
Salt of the Earth This drama film is one of the first pictures to advance the feminist social and political point of view. Its plot centres on a long and difficult strike, based on the 1951 strike against the…
Poster for benefit for Phelps-Dodge and British miners - Libertarian Workers Group A poster from a joint LWG (WSA) - RSL benefit for British and Phelps-Dodge miner strikes in NYC. Donated by NY WSA Library.