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Closing Bell: ASX leaps as traders pile into miners; copper price boosted after Peru incident
24 Apr 2025 07:40 GMT
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Victory to the Birmingham bin workers!
19 Apr 2025 21:01 GMT
… the bin workers overwhelmingly rejected the latest offer from the Labour-controlled … of legislation in its forthcoming Employment Rights Bill, as much solidarity … . Forty years ago, when the miners’ strike began, the Birmingham TUC set …
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“America, América”: Greg Grandin on Latin American History, from Colonization to CECOT to Pope Francis
23 Apr 2025 18:47 GMT
… era in which social movements, labor unions and peasant leagues were … be doing a pretty good job of it in this country … was a militant strike in 1948, a miner strike in 1948. And … Front to putting down the miners’ strike and basically mobilizing airplanes and …
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‘How did we allow this to happen?’: Tragic tales of life inside infamous Kent mental asylum
23 Apr 2025 12:43 GMT
… for thousands of patients and employ hundreds of staff. Picture: Mary … 48 hours into his new job.
“The patient was then … the 1972 miners’ strike may have contributed to some absences as workers took … from Canterbury, took his first job at St Augustine's …
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‘Andor’ Is a Chilling Vision of Fascism and Resistance in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
22 Apr 2025 16:02 GMT
… casual brutality, quota-driven slave labor, the destruction of minority culture … guilt.
During the miners’ strike, meanwhile, the British state employed policing tactics honed … —and overstretched, guarding its slave labor facilities with too few soldiers …
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The Long History of Lawlessness in U.S. Policy Toward Latin America
22 Apr 2025 16:08 GMT
… , Chile cracked down on a miners’ strike with its U.S.-fortified … rounded up coal and nitrate miners. Many were detained in the … part of a team whose job it was to apply a … ’s poorer opponents: the peasant, labor, environmental, and feminist activists who …
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Why Reform resonates in deindustrialised Britain
21 Apr 2025 21:03 GMT
… worked underground. During the 1984 Miners’ Strike, Arthur Scargill’s wife, Anne … in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire meeting steel workers. Scunthorpe’s blast furnaces were … -class jobs is catching the attention of those communities that both Labour …
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The last letter
21 Apr 2025 15:30 GMT
… -militarist and leader of a miners’ strike – to his brother at 2 … : every spoken sentence had to employ the subjunctive in some way …
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NWDC conditions | Cascade PBS union | Black lung
23 Apr 2025 17:58 GMT
… eventually voted through the strike-ending contract, much … specializes in representing workers in the labor movement, The Hollywood … his job cuts hobble black lung protections for miners — … Inc. subsidiary jointly employed the Cognizant workers. That holding …
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S-Africa grapples with major crisis stemming from illegal mining networks
23 Apr 2025 13:43 GMT
… led by former mine workers. These illegal miners, either coerced or forced … , which relied on cheap black labor and maintained a stark divide … as the 1946 strike where police killed 12 striking workers demanding better …