Location: House of Commons, WestminsterDate: 13 September. Time: 18:00 – 19:00 Reservation Essential (limited spaces). Register HERE Peasant farmer communities, local citizens and local government in Cajamarca, Colombia, are confronting the multinational Anglo Gold...
Disponible en Español aqui Final report of the international mission to #StopISDS recommends Colombia’s withdrawal from the system of corporate abuse and impunity, by way of a citizens’ audit Today, the International Mission to #StopISDS launches its final...
Thank you to Andy Higginbottom for this timely and informative report on the current state of the mining industry in South Africa. To learn more about the activities planned for the 11th anniversary of the Marikana Massacre, see our post here. This study ‘follows the...
16 August 2023 will mark the 11th anniversary of the Marikana Massacre, in which 34 striking mine workers were shot dead in South Africa. You can read more about the events surrounding the strike in this piece by Saleh Mamon, written on the 10th anniversary of the...
Lonmin was the corporation responsible for urging the South African state to carry out the massacre of 34 striking mineworkers on 16 August 2012. Lonmin refused to negotiate with its workers for a living wage, and instead called on the police who shot them down in...
On 16 August 2012 the South African police shot dead 34 platinum miners on strike for a living wage from their employer Lonmin, a descendant of notorious UK company Lonrho, founded during Cecil Rhodes’ brutal white settler colonial occupation of southern Africa. Join...
This is the first in a short series of blogs on the history and legacy of Anglo American around the world by LMN’s Communications Coordinator, Saul Jones Most of us are familiar with the basic outline of the story of South African apartheid – from the late...
Wednesday 19 July, 18:00 – 20:00 At our next Resisting Mining Book Club event, we’ll be talking to Tom Gatehouse about his book The Heart of Our Earth: Community resistance to mining in Latin America. This book tells the story of the unprecedented...
On 2 June, thousands gathered to block the main road to Rio Tinto’s QMM mine in Madagascar. This protest follows an offer of a compensation and indemnification payment by the mining company, which many say falls far short of the value of the losses suffered by...
Photo: Richard Murphy By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network, based on notes of the AGM made by Stephan Suhner, Arbeitsgruppe Schweiz Kolumbien (Switzerland-Colombia Working Group). An on-demand webcast of the AGM can be found here along with the Notice...
On 26 April 2023, Anglo American held its Annual General Meeting in London. Working with friends and community leaders from Latin America, we organised a series of interventions and activities in the lead-up to this event. Communities Public Statement Working with...
Bilingual LMN Book Club Workshop on Anglo American and the Rise of Modern South Africa byDuncan Innes (1984) Heinemann Español debajo This book provides a detailed study of Anglo American corporation until the early 1980s, showing it was steeped in extreme racial...