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The 3rd International Miners' Conference 2023 in Germany passed groundbreaking resolutions:
No struggle must stand alone anymore! Transnational solidarity, coordination and cooperation are the order of the day!
Full success of solidarity has significance for all miners: Miner Julian Wächter has won his case against Kali + Salz (K+S)! At the court hearing on 11 April, the Fulda Labour Court ruled that K+S had unlawfully dismissed miner Julian Wächter without notice. The reason for this was his militant speech at a staff meeting in September 2023. This means that the employment relationship remains in place. Julian must continue to be employed until the end of the legal dispute. Congratulations to Julian!
Dear friends and colleagues I would like to thank everyone once again for the successful cooperation in 2023, a year that points the way forward for the international miners' movement. Let us work together to implement the resolutions of the 3rd International Miners' Conference in order to advance the unification of miners worldwide.
The world's largest platinum producer Implats in Rustenburg, South Africa, announced the dismissal of 12,000 of the 28,000 striking miners on 26 January, just one day after the police killed one of the miners on strike! One of the affected colleagues documented a text message he had received from the company: "As a consequence of their absence at the hearing where they were supposed to declare that they had participated in an illegal strike action, the company has decided to dismiss them in absentia. They have 3 days to appeal."
Miners rise up against the global environmental catastrophe that has begun!The survival of humanity is being threatened by the capitalist profit economy! Day by day we miners extract earth’s wealth from nature, which is unashamedly being appropriated by the international mining corporations. In future mining will be needed, too, but: Raw materials need to be extracted environmentally appropriately and must not be wasted.
From Rwanda, a female artisanal miner responds to the ICG's New Year greetings:
Woooow happy new year ... my God bless you
The Chingola mine is an illegal open-cast copper mine where work is carried out without a licence. In this respect, there is also no information about how many miners are working there. The accident was caused by a landslide after heavy rainfall. The miners were buried and probably drowned.
To the miners of the Chingola copper mine in Zambia