Coal Miners in Alabama, organized with the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), recently hit 500 days on strike against Warrior Met Coal, which was previously known as Walter Energy before it ...

Excited miners celebrated finding a rich vein of gold at a mining pit in Myanmar. Footage shows the workers shovelling dirt ...

Here, James and others protest in 1984. (Photo courtesy of James.) In 1984, coal miners around the world felt under attack. Both in the U.S. and Great Britain, they went on strike under the watchful ...

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“He also invoked the Taft-Hartley Act when the UMWA went on strike in 1977. That did not win him any friends in the labor movement at the time, but the truth is miners largely ignored his order ...

A letter to Black Flag on the "The Miners and The Left" article in Black Flag no. 114. (vol. 7, no.6C) 1984. Includes a reply from the author.

A new "time tunnel" exhibition which tells the history of British coal mining has opened in West Yorkshire. The feature, which has been created within the walls of a disused passageway once used to ...

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Tomorrow, Tuesday November 25, the Marx Memorial Library continues its series of discussions on the lessons of the miners’ strike with John Sheppard, a striking Armthorpe miner Last week Seumas Milne, ...

In 1984 the miners' strike threw coal-mining areas across the UK into industrial chaos and social upheaval. It contributed to a shift in the political landscape and, according to Billy Bragg ...

Miners convicted during the year-long strike in the 1980s are to be pardoned by the Scottish government. It is believed about 1,400 miners were arrested and more than 500 were convicted during the ...

It has been four decades since the beginning of the 1984-1985 Miners’ Strike, which only lasted one year but made a significant impact for decades to come. The strikes were held by the National Union ...