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Article | 6/11/2024

The Origins of Davis Day, June 11

“Under capitalism the working class has but two courses to follow: crawl or fight” – JB McLachlan By Doug Nesbitt Today is Davis Day in Nova Scotia. William Davis was a coal miner shot and killed June 11 by company police during the 1925 Cape Breton coal miners’ strike. The miners were fighting against a Continue readingThe Origins of Davis Day, June 11

Article | 9/29/2020

Our History: Remember the Estevan Miners

Estevan, Saskatchewan 1931; RCMP murders 3 in union recognition strike By Doug Nesbitt, Rankandfile.ca editor On September 29 1931, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police murdered three miners in Estevan, Saskatchewan. The miners and their families were striking for union recognition. In 1931, 600 miners in the Souris coal fields of southeast Saskatchewan faced wage cuts Continue readingOur History: Remember the Estevan Miners

7/14/2018

Weekend Video: The Battle of Goderich

Since April 27, over 350 miners in Goderich, Ontario have been on strike. The union, Unifor Local 16-0, is fighting against concessions demanded by Compass Minerals which owns the salt mine, the world’s largest. The town of 8,000 and surrounding area has rallied to the miners’ cause. Lawn signs supporting the workers have popped up Continue readingWeekend Video: The Battle of Goderich

10/4/2016

The McIntyre Powder Project: An interview with Janice Martell

By Matt Corbeil Elliot Lake is a city with a history. Home to one of the world’s largest deposits of uranium, the city grew in tandem with the US military’s nuclear weapons stockpile. But if the purpose of the stockpile was to keep the “free world” safe from the threat of global communism, little thought Continue readingThe McIntyre Powder Project: An interview with Janice Martell

Video | 6/25/2016

Weekend Video: Flin Flon Flim Flam (Hudbay’s Hoax)

InvestigativeMEDIA turns its unflinching focus on Canadian miner Hudbay Minerals Inc. and its controversial plans to construct the massive Rosemont open-pit copper mine in the Santa Rita Mountains on the Coronado National Forest southeast of Tucson. InvestigativeMEDIA’s John Dougherty documents Hudbay’s legacy of lead poisoning in a remote Manitoba community where the company operated a Continue readingWeekend Video: Flin Flon Flim Flam (Hudbay’s Hoax)

3/3/2016

“Labour Struggles truly have no borders:” Vancouver’s connections to Slave labour in Eritrea

By Daniel Tseghay They worked 12 hours a day, with no more than an hour break under an unrelenting sun, for six days a week. When one worker left the work site without authorization he was imprisoned for four months. Working for the equivalent of $30 a month, they were rewarded with inadequate food and Continue reading“Labour Struggles truly have no borders:” Vancouver’s connections to Slave labour in Eritrea

Video | 2/27/2016

Weekend Video: The Mine Wars

The Mine Wars is a new documentary retelling the story of how Appalachian coal miners fought the brutal oppression of the coal operators. After a series of major battles over union recognition, the Mine Wars escalated in the early 1920s into an armed rebellion of 10,000 coal miners against the coal operators, their armies of private Continue readingWeekend Video: The Mine Wars

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