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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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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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Assoc for Scottish Literature

The Orgreave Stations
6 Feb, Glasgow – free (booking required)

To mark the 40th anniversary of the 1984/5 Miner’s Strike, poet William Hershaw & artist Les McConnell have used the Christian framework of “the Stations of the Cross” as an imaginative foundation to describe events leading up to the Battle of Orgreave.

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EventbriteThe Orgreave StationsThe GalGael Trust invites you to an evening with the Fife poet William Hershaw.
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Peter Riley

Before 1971, workers only received a percentage of pay when they were unable to work due to injury. NSW building industry employees injured at work were forced into debt.
The construction unions were united in 1971 as the Building Trades Group.
The Builders Labourers Federation joined in this struggle with the BWIU and their combined membership went on strike for 3 weeks across the entire construction industry in NSW.
#labormovement #workingclasshistory
#constructionworkers #organize #unions

Text Accident Pay Strike 1971 If you don’t fight you lose. Photographs: BLF officer speaks to workers A 1971 building industry unions meeting. Sydney skyline with high rise buildings off ice tower developments.
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