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

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.

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Protest letter against obstruction of the 3rd International Miners Conference

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.

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ICG Call for International Women's Day 2023 Template.

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....

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

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.

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Dear friends and comrades

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.

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

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.

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Miners worldwide for saving the natural foundations of life!

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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Reports on the working and living conditions of the miners

Dear friends, at the meeting of the International Miners' Coordination Group in August, all participants committed themselves to support our common homepage www.minersconference.org with reports about the working and living conditions of miners and their families and especially about their struggles in your countries.

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Greece: we received an update

On Wednesday 19 October 2022, workers of the TEHNOSTYL construction company at the LARCO plant in Larymna will hold a four-hour work stoppage from 10.00 am until the end of the shift. Then They will board buses with LARCO unions and workers and travel to LARCO headquarters (Maroussi, Frangoklisa 27) to protest and make demands to the special management:

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41 Miners Killed In Amasra

Turkey was shaken by the news that 41 workers lost their lives, and many others were injured in a coal mine accident in Amasra district of Bartin. In the Asmara coal mine of the Turkish Hard Coal (TTK), 41 of the 90 workers who were inside the mine lost their lives because of the explosion at around 18:15 on 14 October 2022, which was a new indicator of the value not given to the lives of workers working in mines.

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