- The Asturias revolt, 1934
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
An account of the 1934 uprising by Asturian miners in Spain. Beginning as part of a nationwide general strike, the revolt grew into one of the most widespread rebellions of the pre-revolution era.
- Austerity vs. the Planet:The Future of Labour Environmentalism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Last December members of the International Trade Union Confederation joined other civil society activists in a mass sit-in at the COP21 talks in Paris. Unionists and their allies, some 400 strong, filled the social space adjacent to the negotiating rooms for several hours, in defiance of a French ban on protests that remained in effect in the wake of the November 13 terrorist attacks. The ITUC delegation demanded the negotiators go back to the table and make a serious effort to incorporate labour's demands for a just transition – which, at its heart, is concerned with making sure workers in environmentally unsustainable industries are retrained and put to work building a new, sustainable economy.
- Christian Labour Association of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
A historical and sociological overview which provides a critical analysis of the Labour and National movements in South Africa and explores how and why the white working class traded its socialist principles for a share of white power. Also examines the interactions between the two wings of the resistance against white domination.
- Coal in Our Blood
200 Years of coal mining in Nova Scotia's Pictou County
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
An account of the coal mining community of Pictou County, Nova Scotia.
- Coal Strike of 1902
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania.
- Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2022
- The Company Store: J.B. McLachlan and the Cape Breton Coal Miners 1900-1925
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Copperbelt strike of 1935
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A strike action which performed by African mineworkers in the Copperbelt (then in Northern Rhodesia, today called Zambia) to protest against unfair taxes imposed by the British colonial authorities.
- Coughing up coal
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2014
India is rivaling China -- in its plans to consume coal. India is aggressively expanding construction of coal fired power plants to meet growing energy needs. Emissions from coal power plants were linked to 80,000 - 150,000 premature deaths in India between 2011 and 2012 alone and to a wide range of diseases from cancers, to respiratory and cardiovascular disorders. Singrauli -- an industrial hub in north central India -- embodies the tragic human toll that a largely unregulated coal industry can extract.
- Digging deeper: Issues in the miners' strike
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
- Estevan Coal Miners' Strike, 1931
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A strike which led to the murder of three miners by the RCMP.
- False Promises
The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Miners inspired Marxist-Humanism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The dialectic of the 1949-50 Miners' General Strike, as it transformed from a Lewis-authorized strike that already had lasted some six months into a challenge to John L. Lewis himself, laid the ground for new ways of thinking.
- Hidden Agendas
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Pilger's book is an indictment of Tony Blair's government and his easy acceptance of the Thacherite view of foreign affairs. Using the examples of Indonesia, East Timor, Burma, Murdoch and China he chronicles the scale and intensity of injustice around the world.
- The Hillcrest Mine Disaster
Resource Type: Article
The worst coal mining disaster in Canada occurred in Hillcrest, Alberta, on Friday June 19, 1914. A total of 189 men died. 130 women were widowed and 400 children left fatherless.
- How to Promote a Just Transition and Break out of the jobs vs. environment trap
A Superfund for Workers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A strategy has been emerging to protect workers and communities whose livelihoods may be threatened by climate protection policies. Protecting those who lose their jobs due to necessary environmental policies has often been referred to as a "just transition."
- Lattimer massacre
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The killing of 19 unarmed striking immigrant anthracite coal miners at the Lattimer mine near Hazleton, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 1897, by a sheriff's posse.
- Leadville Colorado, Miners' Strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Occurred as a result of rapid industrialization and consolidation of the mining industry.
- Marikana massacre: the untold story of the strike leader who died for workers’ rights
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In 2012 a strike at the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa ended when police opened fire, killing 34 miners. Investigations have revealed one rebel leader died trying to broker a peaceful solution.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 4
Marx and Engels 1844 - 1845
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1845
Includes The Holy Family, or Critique of Critical Criticism, and The Condition of the Working-Class in England.
- Mine Wars Museum Opens, Revives Lost Labour History
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Mine Wars museum opens in Matewan to revive West Virginia’s labour history.
- Miners' strike: senior officer was 'appalled' at conduct of other police
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
A senior police officer breaks ranks to describe how he and others were "appalled" at the behaviour of colleagues during the 1984-85 miners' strike in the UK, as calls mount for a fresh inquiry into the policing of the dispute.
- Minewar.org
Resource Type: Website
Documenting the 1930's Illinois mine war.
- Mining History Written in Blood
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Domestic coal mining history above and below ground lives on the pages of Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction edited by Wess Harris (PM Press, 2017). The anthology unpacks the industry, people and communities of a coal-rich region, amplifying relevant class and gender issues over a century.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 5, 2015
Residential schools
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices focuses on residential schools. As documented by the just-released report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, residential schools were set up to forcibly 'assimilate' Native children by taking them away from their parents and communities, and depriving them of their language, culture, history, and emotional supports. Based as they were on a system of arbitrary power and cruelty, it is not surprising that they also fostered physical and sexual abuse of the children forced into the schools. We spotlight the report and the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as films, books, and survivor stories. Also in this issue: the Orwellian language and tactics being used to sell 'anti-terrorist' legislation, mind-boggling subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, and, on the other side of the ledger, stories of courage and resistance.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2015
Canadian federal election, mining and the environment
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Featuring the Canadian federal election, mining and the environment, failure of Syriza in Greece, refugees, veterans of India's struggle for independence.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 22, 2017
Secrecy and Power
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
Secrecy is a weapon the powerful use against their enemies: us. This issue of Other Voices explores the relationship of secrecy and power.
- PBS's Red Metal: The Copper Country Strike of 1913 commemorates Michigan's bitter labor past
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
One hundred years ago, a major strike by copper miners was continuing in the Keweenaw Peninsula, which protrudes into Lake Superior in northern Michigan. In the middle of the months-long battle against intransigent mine owners, at least 73 people, mostly children, were killed in a horrific incident at a celebration on Christmas Eve in 1913.
- Pride
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2014
Based on a true story, the film depicts a group of lesbian and gay activists who raised money to help families affected by the British miners' strike in 1984, at the outset of what would become the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners campaign.
- Raising the Workers' Flag
The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
A history of the Workers' Unity League, the Canadian affiliate of the Communist Red International of Labour Unions.
- Relentless Persistence
Nonviolent Action in Latin America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
- Rothbury Riot
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An incident in which police shot into a crowd of locked-out miners in the New South Wales.
- Scargill, Arthur
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
British trade unionist and political party leader. (Born 1938).
- The Socialist Register 1985/1986
Volume 22: Social Democracy and After
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- UK miners' strike (1984 - 1985)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1985
A major industrial action affecting the British coal industry.
- Waihi miners' strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A major strike action in 1912 by gold miners in the New Zealand town of Waihi.
- Working Class Experience
Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.
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