"We needed to be together and support each other because in this area, the majority of the miners were working," recalls ...

Miners and their advocates worry that DOGE's cuts to the Mine Safety and Health Administration will put them at risk.

The president and his Silicon Valley oligarch pals want to bring back the bad old “company towns” of yesteryear with a fresh ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to boost mineral production “to the maximum possible extent” as ...

Tomorrow John Sheppard will speak about how the miners organised and his personal experiences as an activist during the strike at Armthorpe, one of the most active and militant NUM branches in the ...

LONDON (AP) — Scottish industrialist Sir Ian MacGregor, who helped crush a year-long coal miners’ strike and break the power of Britain’s unions in the mid-1980s, has died. He was 85. The former ...

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty A miner after a shift on the coal face at a south Wales colliery, 1983. Image: Roger ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – In a vote that split House Republicans, a bipartisan majority on a legislative committee rejected a last-ditch effort to delay the death of a coal subsidy that cost Ohio ...

Amanda McKay's family were told by police to leave their home during the strike [BBC] The daughter of a mining union official has spoken for the first time about how her family faced kidnap threats ...

The 1984-1985 strike - one of the biggest and bitterest ... and form. "If it wasn't for coal mining in this area at this specific time, Kent wouldn't be what it is now." As an asteroid mining ...