español abajo We resume a close reading of this book, from Chapter 6 to the end (Part 1 was on 28 June). In the early decades of the twentieth century, Anglo American set up a financial conglomerate to control many underground mines. Its huge profitability was founded...
London Mining Network will be at The World Transformed with our friends War on Want this year. On 9 October we’ll be co-hosting the panel Resisting Green Colonialism: Learning From Resistance Movements Globally. If you’re attending the festival, join us on...
LMN is delighted to announce our fifth Resisting Mining Book Club 2023 with guest speakers Orrin Pilkey, Keith Pilkey, Norma Longo and Hannah Smith, who will be speaking about their co-edited book Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining (Duke University Press)....
On 19 September, friends of London Mining Network will be hosting a webinar following up on the #StopISDS Report published earlier this year. Registration is free and open to all, with Spanish/English interpretation provided. The webinar will take place at 4pm UK...
La Colosa Open-Pit Gold Mining Project: an imminent threat to climate change and local communities in Colombia. La Colosa is AngloGold Ashanti’s (AGA) proposed open-pit gold mining project in Tolima, Colombia. This exploratory project threatens to devastate the...
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...