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ICG statement of solidarity with Georgian miners in Chiatura

Details: Created: Thursday, 12 June 2025 09:31; Hits: 41

To the miners and their families in Chiatura. Dear friends and families.

You continue to have the full solidarity and support of the International Coordination Group of the International Miners' Coordination in your determined struggle for your jobs and the preservation of the region's livelihoods. Since I was with you in April, we have grown together and you are like family to me.

Protest statement against the arrest of several miners in Chiatura, Georgia

Details: Created: Friday, 23 May 2025 13:02; Hits: 76

To the government of Georgia, Mr. Saakashvili, the Foreign office, Federal Minister Mr Wadephul and the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Represantative Ms Kaja Kallas. Dear Mr Saakashvili, Mr Wadephul and Ms Kallas, On behalf of the International Miners' Coordination Group (ICG), I am writing to you today: On 29 April 2025, we received news from Chiatura, Georgia, that five leading miners had been arrested at 3 a.m. by the regional police in the tent of the striking miners, some of whom are on hunger strike, and are still in custody.

Georgia: The struggling miners from Chiatura, send greetings of solidarity to workers in Nordhausen, Thuringia

Details: Created: Tuesday, 29 April 2025 22:55; Hits: 143

We, the manganese miners of Chiatura who have been fighting for our jobs, ecology and the share of the wealth which is underneath our feet, Salute the workers of Schachtbau GmbH in Nordhausen, who are also fighting for a decent pay they deserve. We managed to struggle tooth and nail already for 61 days and we're not going to back down now. We've been ignored, laughed at, provoked, threatened, lied to.

Georgia: This latest report was sent to us from Chiatura

Details: Created: Tuesday, 29 April 2025 22:40; Hits: 106

The miners' protest in Chiatura has been going for more than 2 months. Last week and recent days was the peak of escalation of the protest by the company and the capitalist state. As the manganese crisis phase of depression has hit the rock bottom and the expansion phase has to start soon, the company has no more luxury to ignore the miners' protest in hope that they will get tired. First, a man unknown to the miners who introduced himself as a friend of a businessman who runs the coal mining town went to the miners and told them that he was sent to solve their problems as they "solved" them in Tkibuli (coal mining town).

1 May 2025: Against shifting the burden of the crisis onto miners and their families; resistance to war and fascism!

Details: Created: Sunday, 27 April 2025 13:45; Hits: 153

May Day is taking place in a situation of great change and challenges: With the fascist Trump taking office in the United States, the existing world order is being turned upside down. He wants to establish a fascist dictatorship in the USA with all his might and realise his claim to sole rule of US imperialism. The international competition between the old and new imperialist forces is intensifying. With economic and trade wars and massive preparations for a third world war, they want to secure access to global sources of raw materials.

Dear miners, dear families of the miners of the manganese mines in Chiatura

Details: Created: Friday, 04 April 2025 15:51; Hits: 127

We would like to thank you very much for your video report. Your report was very moving for the 20 or so participants at the commemorative event. Under the motto 1920 to 2025: Nothing is forgiven - No one is forgotten, around 20 participants gathered at the ‘Grave in the Haard’. They commemorated the 34 fighters of the Red Ruhr Army who were buried here. They were murdered by fascists in 1920 during the defence of the Ruhr region. 105 years ago, workers across party lines went on general strike against the fascist military dictatorship of the ‘Kapp Putsch’. Decisive for its suppression were 100,000 armed workers, mostly miners, who had joined together to form the Red Ruhr Army.

Open letter to the DGB, IG BCE and GTUC. To manganese miners in Georgia

Details: Created: Friday, 04 April 2025 14:45; Hits: 131

We, the International Miners‘ Coordination, were very surprised and outraged when union colleagues from Georgia brought to our attention the letter from the DGB to the Georgian union GTUC. The coordinating group of the International Miners’ Coordination strongly protests against the content of this letter from the DGB and the statements of the IG BCE.

We are forwarding you a declaration of solidarity from the Monday demonstration in Herne.

Details: Created: Monday, 31 March 2025 22:50; Hits: 116

The Monday demonstration is a non-partisan movement that regularly demonstrates on Mondays in many German cities against social injustice, environmental destruction, the threat of war and fascism. Dear friends, Here is the declaration of solidarity adopted today by the Herne Monday Demonstration: Dear miners in Chiatura, We would like to express our full solidarity with you and your families in your struggle.

Declaration of Solidarity with the miners in Chiatura

Details: Created: Tuesday, 11 March 2025 22:27; Hits: 170

Dear miners, miner families and friends, we congratulate you and the struggling people of Chiatura on your protest actions in recent days and on your demonstration! ‘No struggle must stand alone!‘ was decided at the 3rd International Miners’ Conference in 2023 in Germany, which was also attended by participants from Georgia and Chiatura.

Trade union colleagues from Turkey write to the struggling miners in Chiatrura, Georgia:

Details: Created: Monday, 10 March 2025 00:01; Hits: 133

Dear miners in Georgia, miners from Turkey send you their warmest greetings for your struggle. They write: ‘One of the topics we are discussing in our country is the unification of many large and small actions in many places. We continue to work with struggling trade unions to ensure the unity of workers’ actions.

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