In the Newport area, Simon Phillips and his colleagues put on over 200 shows during the course of the strike, in aid of the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

COALTON, Ohio, Dec. 1.--All the miners in this, the Seventh District, 2,500 to 3,000, came out this morning on a refusal by the operators to grant an increase of 5 cents per ton for mining.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Mine rescue workers host up a cage that was used to rescue trapped miners at an abandoned gold mine, where ...

Described as a ‘hard-hitting musical comedy set in the 1984/85 miners strike that follows the fortunes of three sisters determined to set up their own branch of Women Against Closures’, We ...

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 ...

In 1984, thousands of workers in the area's mines were in their ninth month of the bitter Miners' Strike in a desperate bid to prevent the closure of pits across the country. The National Union of ...

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 ...