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Google Maps satellite imagery is becoming incredibly finely-detailed. These are the dumps at Rössing Uranium Mine in Namibia

The futuristic aesthetics of the Saudi NEOM ‘line in the desert’ city cover a dystopian labour regime. More than 20,000 workers have died building it and related construction projects. All the whole western ‘influencers’ record odd videoed from inside it. archpaper.com/2024/10/docume…

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In 'Cas Gan Gythraul', edited by Lisa Tallis, you can read about 'Some evil traditions and ceremonies' including 'practising divination by throwing nuts on the fire on All Saint's Eve to foretell who will die that year'. #Halloween #Wales #18thCentury southwalesrecordsociety.co.uk/28.htm

‘Come dungeons dark or gallows grim’. Detail from Stillingfleet Yorkshire NUM branch banner on display in Selby Abbey last weekend. Emotional reminder of #Orgreave 84 will forever remain in the minds of many. Selby NUM Coal Advice Simon Cahill Wearing BlackSamba since 86⚽️ National Coal Mining Museum Miners Strike

#OnThisDay 1984. The National Coal Board tried to bribe striking miners back to work with offers of £1,500 before the Christmas holidays. The sum would include holiday pay and a Christmas bonus of up to £70.

Today 185 years ago the Newport Rising took place the largest Chartist March in Welsh history. When 4000+ from across the South Wales Valleys marched on the Westgate Hotel in Newport demanding a better democracy. I don’t feel this event gets near the attention it deserves.1/6

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#OnThisDay 1984. Labour leader Neil Kinnock says he is too busy to speak at a series of rallies in support of the #MinersStrike In a letter to Arthur Scargill the Labour leader wrote he was “already fully committed to a series of longstanding engagements which cannot be broken”

it’s early November 1910. 12,000 mid-Rhondda miners are on strike. From Porth to Ystrad, every colliery is at a standstill. Negotiations with the coal owners have broken down. There’s no knowing when or if they’ll resume… ✍️John Geraint wp.me/p8Mk4U-Qm4

#OTD November 7th, 1910. Tonypandy. Read all about it Nation.Cymru! nation.cymru/feature/part-o…

As opponents to the Bolsheviks walk out in protest of their armed uprising, Leon Trotsky, the Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet, shouts: "You are miserable bankrupts. Your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on: into the dustbin of history!"

A Tory MP bemoaning the impact of destroying a highly integrated nationalised coal, rail and electricity sector in favour of privatisation, profiteering and dangerous dependency on gas.

It's the moment I'm sure you have all been waiting for. My PhD is now available for free online. The Political Economy of Nationalism: Stateless Nations and the World-System in the Longue Durée. Have a read, tell me what you think! orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/1715…

This post is problematic for a number of reasons. A thread…🧵 1. For those attempting to make sense of Trump’s victory and the rise of the far-right across Europe - look no further than the PMs statement below. Whether you like it or not, the far-right has a set of common

“I told them that while people were enduring great hardship there was clearly no hunger.” #OnThisDay 1984. Neil Kinnock spoke in Moscow and told Soviet trade union leaders they had been given a misleading view of the #MinersStrike

Hyn yn frawychus/ Terrifying to see. And to think the previous UK Government refused to fund remedial works to Coal Tips even after what happened in Tylorstown in 2020. Making all coal tips safe must be a priority.

Being on strike for ten months we've lost out money wise - we're not worried about money … what we've got now is a community” Families in Penrhiwceiber, South Wales, celebrate Christmas during the #MinersStrike

NCB1947 Andy Perchard, Professor Keith Gildart & Ben Curtis editors for new special issue, 'moral economy at the crossroads of history and social science' in Economic and Industrial Democracy SAGE Publications. OA editorial: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01… @deindustrialpol