To all struggling miners of the state-owned mining company Elektroprivreda and their families; To the Independent Trade Union of Mine Workers of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Dear colleagues, On behalf of the European Coordination of ICOR we send you our warm and solidarity greetings on the occasion of your strike.
Happy comrades, I heard about your strike from our friend Jordanis and on behalf of the International Miners' Coordination I would like to express my solidarity from the bottom of my heart in the fight against Edorado Gold. My name is Andreas Tadysiak and I spent 40 years in the German coal mining industry, about 35 of them as an electrician underground. You have our full support.
Hello miners, relatives and friends, As a former miner in the German coal industry and as the main coordinator of the International Miners' Coordination, you have my sympathy and solidarity. We learned about the horrific accident in your mine in Kemerovo through the media. But we also feel anger and indignation that such an accident is happening in this day and age. There have long been methods and modern techniques at the highest level to protect the safety of miners and also the people living around a mine from such damage.
Thousands of miners protested in front of a government building in Sarajevo over plans for job and wage cuts. The demonstration follows government plans to restructure indebted coal mines as part of a programme to switch to renewable energy sources. The plans involve job and wage cuts. Employees from seven of the 11 coal mines in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina stopped working and took part in the demonstration on Tuesday ( Reuters November 23).
The competition for influence and supremacy in the world between the leading imperialist powers USA, China, Russia and the EU is visibly increasing. Proxy wars like in Syria, Libya, Ukraine or in the Sahel zone can become a direct military clash of the imperialist great powers. The danger of a third world war is increasing dramatically. Many people are rightly concerned about this.
Dear friends, dear relatives, dear Igor Diaz. On behalf of the International Mineworkers' Coordination, I would like to express my heartfelt solidarity with you in the struggle against the Prodeco Group and the multinational Glencore as the sole shareholder of the Prodeco Group. You are fighting for your jobs and for the income on which your families have to live. The International Mineworkers' Coordination's Programme of Struggle states: "Today, a few international corporations control the world's extraction, processing and trade in raw materials.
Workers at the Escondida mine in Chile are edging closer to strike action after rejecting BHP's final wage offer threatening the global supply chain. (In 2020, Chile’s copper mine production was estimated at 5.7 million metric tons of metal content, representing 28.5 percent of the global copper production that year.) Workers at the Escondida mine in Chile have rejected owner BHP Group’s final wage offer.
Dear Stefan Engel and MLPD, You have our fullest support in the struggle against state despotism and attack on democratic rights. It is an outrageous act and attack on democratic rights that Stefan Engel and other comrades associated with the MLPD were declared a dangerous person in 2018. We think it is exactly right that you Stefan Engel accuse the operators - Seehofer and Co - because of your danger speech!
From Ukraine we received the greeting message of the miners' union "Defense of Labor". They write: "With pleasure we learned that the Miners' Initiative is organizing a solemn unveiling of the monument commemorating the great strike of miners in Germany in 1997. The miners' strike in Germany in 1997 gave us all an example of a bright and heroic struggle of the working class against the anti-people plans of the bourgeois government in Germany.
Dear miners, dear friends, Together with you we commemorate today, the 13th of May, 2021, the 301 miners who lost their lives in Soma in 2014. You have rightly demanded the punishment of those responsible as well as compensation for the families of the miners who died. With the march to Ankara in December 2020, a militant signal was produced and you had and have my fullest solidarity.