Tag Archives: Miners
Relaunch of the 1938 Follonsby Miners Lodge Banner
See the Follonsby Miners Lodge banner at the Durham Miners Gala Saturday 9th July, Durham. Details here. At first glance one might ask why anarchists and syndicalists would take more than a passing interest in what looks like a Stalinist icon. The question and to some extent the answer is tied up with the revolutionary [...]
Durham Miners Gala 2011
They call it the Big Meeting and after some 126 years it remains the largest organised working class event in the country. The Durham Miners Gala, held this year on 9th July, regularly attracts crowds of over 100,000 people and is seen as a celebration of the history and heritage of the mining industry in [...]
The Cambrian Combine Strike, 1910
On 1st September 1910, 800 coal miners at the Ely Pit, Naval Colliery Company, Penygraig, Rhondda, were locked out. The issue was the price to be paid for a new seam of coal that the colliers felt was being underpaid. By November, 30,000 miners, in the Rhondda, Aberdare, Maeteg and Western Valleys were on strike or [...]
Ghost Dancers by David Douglass
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The final volume in Dave Douglass’s mining trilogy published to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the end of the miners’ strike.
