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Assoc for Scottish Literature

In the blunted night of the coal shed,
without a torch, my fingers dig
among the coal for the coal.
Hear it scutter into the bucket…

—Brian McCabe, “Coal”
published in BODY PARTS, @canongatebooks 1999

The 1984–85 UK miners’ strike was officially called off 40 years ago #OTD, 3 March, 1985. It remains the longest-running strike in British history without a positive outcome.

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Coal Brian McCabe In the blunted night of the coal shed, without a torch, my fingers dig among the coal for the coal. Hear it scutter into the bucket. Something else is gathered, uttered from a darker place where memory digs and throws its coal into a bucket – as if a ghost stuttered, spoke: My father clears his throat, curses the government: ‘Thirty years in Rosewell, in Bilston Glen, in Monktonhall – and what is there to show for it?’ And what is there to show for it? Flattened sites, non-places, absences surrounded by meaningless villages. The bars look like air-raid shelters. ‘If the shops need iron grilles here, they’ll need them everywhere. Like the miners of Monktonhall we’ll all know what siege means.’ I stumble from the dark into the dark of that night into this, to light a fire, to watch the flames rise and flare into eloquent tongues.
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papiris

@LOiO Kult!
Æ vil hør om seiera på stort og smått plan i den norske/nordiske fagbevegelsen, fortalt av folkan som va me på kampen.
E også intr i å hør om ulike forsøk på arbeidermakt, typ den arbeiderstyrte heisbedrifta Nor Heis på 90-tallet. Nabolandan vårres har endel fleire arbeiderstyrte bedrifta me ulike historia, som æ ikje har tid tel å les om, men bi å sluk i form av podkast :blobcatlisten:

Til kontekst; to andre podkasta æ høra på e #workingClassHistory og #styrkeUng sin #nattskiftet

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Firestorm Books

In the early-20th century, strikes and union battles were common in industrial centers throughout the US. But nothing compared to the class warfare of the West Virginia Mine Wars.

To celebrate the release of "Black Coal and Red Bandanas," an illustrated history from PM Press, we're exciting to host a virtual evening with author Raymond Tyler and illustrator Summer McClinton. They'll be joined by Shaun Slifer and Kenzie New-Walker of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum!

Register for this free online event and find a copy of "Black Coal and Red Bandanas" at firestorm.coop/events/3342-the. Can't make the event but still want to listen in? Sign up and we'll send you the recording to stream at your convenience!

#WorkingClassHistory #ClassWar #CoalMiner #WestVirginia #MineWars #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)

A promotional graphic for a virtual event hosted by Firestorm Books on February 23rd at 7pm ET. The image features the title "The West Virginia Mine Wars" above the cover of the book "Black Coal and Red Bandanas" over a historic photo of a coal mining community in Blair Mountain, WV.
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Peter Riley

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On 16 February 2013 Syrian anarchist Omar Aziz died in Adra central prison after being arrested.
With the arrival of the Arab Spring in Syria, Aziz, then aged 63, helped establish the first local committee in the Damascus suburb of Barzeh, through which the local community could self-organise resistance activities as well as mutual aid and cooperation, like providing housing, medical and food support.

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