Europe - International Miners Coordination

Solidarity to the miners at Tara Mines

Details: Created: Wednesday, 12 July 2023 21:21; Hits: 572

To the miners of Tara Mines Dear miners and relatives We have heard that the Boliden Corporation wants to temporarily shut down your mine, one of the largest zinc mines in the world. Most of you are to stay at home without pay. Since the mine was established in 1977, the various owner companies have extracted fabulous profits from the miners, who have produced a total of more than 85 million tonnes of zinc.

Ireland: Strike at Tara Mines

Details: Created: Wednesday, 12 July 2023 21:17; Hits: 595

As rf-news.de reported on 29.6.2023, the Boliden Group wants to temporarily shut down the largest zinc mine in Europe and the eighth largest zinc mine in the world, about 50 kilometres from Ireland's capital Dublin. Most of the 650 or so workers will stay at home without pay, with a few continuing to work on maintenance tasks.

Publicity for the Third International Miners' Conference

Details: Created: Wednesday, 05 July 2023 09:26; Hits: 611

in Russian on youtube

Joint mobilization and donation call from the International Miners' Coordination and the Anti-Imperialist United Front

Details: Created: Saturday, 01 July 2023 03:30; Hits: 703

Miners around the world are a powerful force. Many of them are at the forefront of the most important workers' struggles. Billions of oppressed people - women, environmentalists, migrants, indigenous people - want a future worth living for themselves and their children. More and more are realizing: for this, you have to unite across countries and fight in an organized way.

Protest letter against obstruction of the 3rd International Miners Conference

Details: Created: Saturday, 01 July 2023 02:14; Hits: 633

To the public German embassy and federal government Belgian Embassy in Congo Dear Ladies and Gentlemen today's nationwide meeting of the militant miners' movement Miners for AUF has learnt that the German and Belgian embassies in Uganda and Congo have delayed or even refused to issue visas for delegates to the 3rd International Miners' Conference, which will be held in Germany from 31.08.2023 to 02.09.2023.

ICG Call for International Women's Day 2023 Template.

Details: Created: Tuesday, 07 March 2023 20:48; Hits: 691

We, the International Coordination of Mineworkers support the World Women's motto. "We are women, we are strong" - this leitmotto was fought for by the 450 participants of the World Women's Conference of Grassroots Women 2022 in Tunis in the headwinds of a world whose ruling systems only exist in crises: Economic and financial crisis, political crises, environmental crises, food crises, crisis of bourgeois refugee policy, crisis of health care, debt crises, etc....

IndustriALL reports: Unions demand justice for 42 miners killed in Turkey

Details: Created: Tuesday, 31 January 2023 12:25; Hits: 727

The international union movement is calling for justice for the 42 miners who lost their lives in an explosion on 14 October, 2202, in Turkey’s Amasra district. Four mine workers are still in hospital in Istanbul , two of them in intensive care. In a joint mission to the region, IndustriALL Global Union assistant general secretary Kemal Özkan and IndustriAll Europe general secretary Luc Triangle met with branch and local trade union representatives.

Dear friends and comrades

Details: Created: Monday, 26 December 2022 19:28; Hits: 766

We, the International Coordination Group of the International Miners' Coordination, wish you a successful new year 2023. We look forward to welcoming as many of you as possible to the 3rd International Miners' Conference 2023 in Thuringia/Germany from 30 August to 3 September 2023. Especially in these times, where brutal competition is carried out on the backs of the workers, the masses and especially us, the miners and our families, up to the acute danger of a World War III with nuclear weapons, we have to set a sign and push our unification forward and develop it higher.

Support the ICOR solidarity campaign with the workers' and people's uprising in Iran!

Details: Created: Friday, 16 December 2022 21:44; Hits: 777

We welcome that the ICOR has decided on such a solidarity campaign and would like to inform about this important campaign: In Iran, a nationwide workers' and people's uprising against the fascist Mullah regime is unfolding in more than 190 cities. "No struggle should ever remain alone" is the slogan of the ICOR and this is also the concern of the international miners' coordination.

Miners worldwide for saving the natural foundations of life!

Details: Created: Thursday, 03 November 2022 13:45; Hits: 848

The world's miners have a special responsibility for future generations. On the one hand, raw materials are needed now and in the future, and on the other hand, they must be extracted in such a way that people's livelihoods are not jeopardised. Miners, environmental and youth fighters belong together! We want to fight for this together and internationally - out for the International Day of Struggle to Save the Environment!

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