Dear Miners, I, as a former underground miner in Germany and the main coordinator of the International Miners' Coordination, feel it is my duty, as well as my personal need, to support the struggle for the rights of artisanal miners in old Katanga by the industrial mining companies and the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Hello miners from the Syama Gold Mine of Resolute Mining. You have my full solidarity in your strike against forced leave and leave of absence without pay for miners. We understand this is the second time you are fighting to protect your health in the Covid 19 pandemic. Here you are quite rightly demanding that the mining company takes the protection of miners' health seriously, but also that when you are on leave, your salaries continue to be paid so that you and your families can live decently.
of the Chinese "Heaven sent Gold Group Company "in Matlosana Dear miners, You have my fullest solidarity in your all-out strike, now underway, against the investigation of alleged property damage, as well as failure to follow instructions and suspension of the 850 miners involved in the sit-in. This is an outrageous criminalization and you have our fullest support.
We miners' wives from Germany have heard about your protest against the government. You have shown in your protests that the government simply cannot get through without your protest and courageous and tireless struggle, so you were attacked and experienced violence.
To the owners of the Krivoy Rog Kolomoyski and Akhmetov mines
the reprisals being carried out against the miners of Krivoj Rog. It is undemocratic for legitimate workers' protests and strikes to be declared illegal by employers, courts and government. We will make this arbitrary act known worldwide and call on all governments to protest against this action and to support the struggle for workers' rights, the right of association, assembly and negotiation.
Miners together against the extermination of our livelihoods through the destruction of the natural environment, and for the future of the youth! In this situation, where the world economic and financial crisis is intensified by the corona pandemic, we miners have a special responsibility to take to the streets to preserve the natural foundations of human life and the future of the youth.
Dear striking miners in Ukraine, we have heard about your courageous strike since 3 September and we want to express our full solidarity with your struggle! It is exactly right to make demands for higher wages and better health protection and to fight for them with determination. While workers around the world are currently being told that they will have to accept losses and redundancies due to the corona pandemic, we know that crises are inherent in capitalism, as is the current world economic crisis.
The workers at Daimler are acutely threatened by job cuts or even plant closures and are faced with the question of how they can lead the fight for their jobs across the group. At the founding conference of the International Miners' Coordination in 2013 it was decided: "Today it is less and less possible to stand up to the international mining monopolies in isolation from each other and locally restricted. What we need is the unity of workers worldwide! This also applies to the automobile workers and to all workers across industries! click on Read more for the appeal for the International Automotive Workers Coordination
Hundreds of their comrades from various mines — including women — have already risen to the surface. Their demands have only been partially met, but they remain committed to their struggle. New, desperate battles lie ahead, against capital and for a decent life for Ukrainian workers. For the first time in the history of our state, we are witnessing labour struggle and solidarity on this scale.
Thank you very much for your letters of solidarity! Especially as the words of solidarity are really very important for us right now. There is now a nationwide campaign to harass the representatives of the workers' teams who took part in the wave of strikes in August. First of all, the repression is directed against the leaders of the strike committees who have recently appeared. Pressure on striking miners is also increasing in Soligorsk.