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Series of accidents at JSW mines (Poland)

Report of the Polish ICG member. Regarding the current situation I have to say that unfortunately we have a black series of accidents in JSW, the rescue operation in Pniówek mine is not yet finished and already there was another accident, this time in Zofiówka mine. In the Zofiówka mine there was an earth tremor, as a result of which a part of the mine building collapsed and buried 10 miners; unfortunately all the miners died.

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Preparing for 1 May in Kazakhstan

Report of a miner from Kazakhstan. In Kazakhstan we are also preparing for May Day and many collectives and public organisations have announced rallies in all cities. At the rallies in all cities of Kazakhstan we will raise the issues of wages, the low social level of workers in the country and our Kazakh issues after the events in January.

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Stopp violence against women in the mining sector!

On April 21, 2022, IndustriALL, the international industrial union, will present its study on „gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH)" from the mining sector. Individual and group interviews were conducted with 21 women and two male leaders from IndustriALL affiliates in South Africa (NUM and NUMSA), Colombia (Sintracarbon) and Canada (Unifor and USW).

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The International Miners' Coordination calls upon all miners of the world as well as their families to celebrate May 1st, 2020, together with colleagues from all lines of work as an international day of struggle

with disciplined attention to all health care measures of course. For 130 years May Day has been the international day of struggle for the working class! Especially in this present situation we miners, the trade unionists, will not let May Day be taken away from us! In many countries of the world, the Corona pandemic is being instrumentalised by the monopolies and their servile governments to restrict or suspend the rights of the workers.

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SIGN THE OPEN LETTER to the Government of the United States and the United Nations

To the Government of the United States and the United Nations April 9, 2020
Dear Friends of Peace, Justice and Human Rights Around the World, The global spread of COVID-19 has exposed the illegal and immoral practice of imposing unilateral coercive measures (economic sanctions) by the United States government against more than thirty nations. The economic war against those nations had already resulted in unimaginable suffering of the people in the targeted nations even before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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India: May Day Zindabad! Workers of the World, Revolutionary Change The Only Way!

Comrade Workers Of India! This May Day, Protest Against Callous and Anti Worker Measures of Central Govt Against Pandemic! Comrades, May Day 2020 has come at a time when people all over the world are facing a pandemic of novel corona virus about a century since an earlier pandemic in 1918. Millions are ill or have died worldwide, the numbers were even worse then.

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Dear friends, the Corona Pandemic is currently a global health crisis and is keeping the world in suspense

The capitalist health systems are not prepared and are reaching their limits. Just now, when we cannot come together personally, we must stick together and give each other strength. In many places, the "corona crisis" is being used by the industrial monopolies and financial capital to shift the consequences of the world economy and financial crisis onto the workers and the masses.

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A Tribute to an Inspiration PK Murthy—From Puducherry to Chindwara and Back

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”-Albert Camus
He would walk briskly with a bamboo pole hung on his shoulder with two vessels on both sides containing water supported by ropes to his hutment located about a half a kilometre from the source.

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colombia: corriente de corona

Pals, brotherly greeting. Here is a general explanation from mining union organizations in Northern Colombia: To date, more than 3,000 mining outsourcing workers have been illegally suspended from their employment contracts. Companies are transferring the cost of the health crisis to workers and their families!WE DON'T PAY FOR YOUR CRISIS, WE REQUIRE RESPONSIBILITY AND SOLIDARITY FROM THE MINING COMPANIES!

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Turkey: Corona current

hello comrades
Thank you very much for the information and analysis in the message. We stand behind the difficult days in Turkey. I hope to evaluate China and other country experiences as a chance for us. Development from here and I will send information. I hope that the working class and the peoples of the world will survive with little damage. With greetings and friendship to the German people and the people. Tayfun Görgün, DISK / Dev. Maden-Sen President.