Coal miners in Kentucky block tracks, win back pay
![Coal miners in eastern Kentucky Jan. 13 block Quest Energy bosses from moving coal they mined in fight over pay. The miners won widespread solidarity and all their back wages.](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/KentuckyMiners_8404-300x212.jpg)
…day a representative of Quest Energy as well as some other company workers came to the protest site and tried to get the protesters to leave the tracks. Davidson and…
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…day a representative of Quest Energy as well as some other company workers came to the protest site and tried to get the protesters to leave the tracks. Davidson and…
NEW YORK — On Dec. 3 the Gothamist, an internet news site run by New York Public Radio, published an article with the headline, “‘These Videos Shouldn’t Exist’: Hours of…
…solidarity, the anti-labor World Socialist Web Site is working overtime to try and convince them to break up their unions. The website is run by the so-called Socialist Equality Party….
…of Guyger. A smaller crowd of people gathered across the street from the site of the killing Oct. 14, when they heard the news that Dean had been charged with…
…Stand Together Facebook page, a key site for communication between miners and for getting information on their fight. She said she had appealed to dozens of state legislators for help,…
A series of drone and missile attacks, claimed by Iranian-backed Houthi forces in Yemen, severely damaged Saudi Arabia’s biggest oil site Sept. 14, cutting world oil supplies and escalating prices….
…railroad track. They organized the protest on the tracks leading out of Blackjewel’s Cloverlick No. 3 mine when the company tried to move the coal the miners had dug. The…
…the site that became historic, but the operations extended along a line hundreds of kilometers long, and out of these operations a movement of great strategic importance toward southwest Angola…
…months, told the Financial Times. “It was a massacre.” Volunteers at medical tents stationed throughout the sit-in site told the media that when they tried to assist wounded protesters troops…
…conglomerate Adani. Bob Brown, founder of the pro-capitalist Greens, led a “stop-Adani” convoy up the east coast of the country. In Clermont, the town closest to the proposed mine site,…