Europe - International Miners Coordination

Greetings from miners and their organisations at Saturday's protest meeting in Gelsenkirchen

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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.

Letter to the miners in Soma/Turkey

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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.

Proposal 1st May Call from the ICG

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May 1st is the Workers' Day of Struggle, especially in times of the Corona Pandemic. The ICG calls on all miners and their families worldwide to actively participate on 1 May, according to their possibilities. For example, through demonstrations and rallies against passing the burden of the crisis on the workers and the broad masses as well as dismantling civil democratic rights. Worldwide, the numbers of infected people and deaths due to COVID-19 are rising while the crisis management of the governments is failing because they follow the dictates of international monopolies who want to secure their profit.

Kazakhstan: There is a lot going on among the miners today

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We have also, but already in 2017, we had a strong strike of miners of 4 mines. 7 thousand miners were on strike underground for four days and partially achieved an increase in wages. But the main issue of miners in Kazakhstan has not been resolved. Our miners retire at 63 and many receive (myself included) a minimum pension.

Call of the International Coordination of Mineworkers (ICG) for the International Women's Day on March 8, 2021

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International Women's Day 2021 takes place in the situation of the deepest world economic and financial crisis, exacerbated by the global Corona pandemic, which has the potential to develop into an overall social crisis.
Worldwide there are over 2.2 million dead and over 130 million people suffering from Corona.

To the miners of Zenica Colliery and all other mines on strike in Bosnia

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Hello miners and your family, I, have learned about your strike for your jobs and for the payment of your outstanding wages. I myself am a former miner underground and I can understand your situation very well. I have been in the situation myself to strike against the threat of mass layoffs. As a miner and main coordinator of the international miners' coordination you have our solidarity. Bosnian

Miners of all the world unite! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2021

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From Morocco: Dear comrades, I take the opportunity of the New Year to express my sincere fraternal and revolutionary greetings to you, wishing you more international solidarity and support for the working class movements in their struggle against exploitation and harsh living and working conditions.

Germany: Declaration of solidarity to the women miners of the main gold mine Pueblo Arrecife of the El Cielo gold group company in Matlosana

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Dear mothers, daughters and sons and relatives of the striking miners, we, miners' wives from Germany, are following your strike with great interest. Your demands have our full solidarity. We cannot allow our husbands, sons and relatives to have their jobs taken away from them and to be criminalised because they are fighting for their rights, their pension contributions, compensation for funerals and severance pay.

Germany: Declaration of solidarity to miners in artisanal mines in Katanga mining area

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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.

Declaration of solidarity to the National Workers' Union of Mali (UNTM)

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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.

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