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Consider South Africa, where the police recently killed 34 striking miners.
For example, youth leader Julius Malema, who accuses President Jacob Zuma’s government of complicity in the miners’ recent deaths, is gaining momentum in the political mainstream.
Erecting trade barriers, engaging in digital mercantilism, and generally undermining the liberal world order will severely harm the extreme poor in Africa and other underdeveloped regions, while doing nothing to help coal miners in West Virginia.
The second is reflected in our willingness to spend almost unlimited sums to rescue trapped miners, and our reluctance to pay for higher safety standards that would save more lives at lower cost.
We empathize with the trapped miners, but we cannot identify with the people whose lives will be saved by stricter safety measures.
So far, it seems clear that Clinton appeals to better-educated urban voters, while Trump attracts mainly less-educated white men, many of whom in earlier generations would have been Democrat-voting coal miners or industrial workers.
She won the sobriquet “Iron Lady” for her decisive leadership in the Falklands War; yet most of her battles were fought against sections of her own people – the “enemy within,” like the miners whom she crushed in the strike of 1984-1985, or Ken Livingstone’s Greater London Council, which she abolished in 1986.
(Compared to most of the world’s population, even the American and Australian coal miners who would lose their jobs if the industry shut down are affluent.)
Kijana, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), edits and oversees eastern Congo’s first online newspaper, where he reports on the near-enslavement of the region’s miners and the violence of an ongoing insurgency.
Romania’s Pits of DespairBUCHAREST: Nearly at the gates of Bucharest, Romania’s miners were turned back by a combination of bribes and threats.
This was the background to the miner’s march, armed with clubs and axes, on Bucharest; this and the memories of a previous "visit" to the capital by rampaging miners in the early post-Ceausescu years.
Halfway to the capital, the miners inflicted two humiliating defeats on police and security forces, injuring 30 soldiers and taking hundreds prisoner.
Darkly, many local people joined in as miners began to shout for the government’s overthrow.
Corneliu Vadim Tudor, leader of the extremist "Greater Romania Party" (GRP) praised the miners and proclaimed a new "National Revolution".
He demanded that the army disobey any order to put down the miners, and pushed for the resignation of President Constantinescu.
The worst was only averted by the last-ditch agreement between the miners’ leader, Miron Cosma, and the Prime Minister, Radu Vasile, struck at a famous mediaeval monastery on the Olt river.
In June 1990, former president Ion Iliescu called on the miners to help him brutalize the pro-democratic movement in Bucharest.
In September 1991, the miners returned again to Bucharest and violently toppled the pro-reform government of Petre Roman (who is now the speaker of the Senate).
How can a few thousand miners, no matter how dedicated and violent, pose such a threat?
Miners are particularly hard hit, due to the closure of some inefficient mines.
A growing part of the population feels betrayed and deceived; all the more so for people, like the miners and other industrial workers, who under communism enjoyed a high social status and good wages.
It is no mere chance that Miron Cosma, the miners' uncrowned king, is a member of GRP and that party functionaries advised him on every step of the march.
No one knows what would have happened if Cosma and his miners had pushed on into Bucharest.
Making matters worse, the massacre in 2012 of 34 miners by police in Marikana revived memories of the apartheid regime’s contempt for blacks.
Furthermore, high prices and new technology are inducing miners to return to previously explored areas that are already ecologically fragile, or to more remote reserves, where the environmental effects of extraction are extreme.
Buoyed by high world energy prices, he was able to pay the back wages and pensions that Yeltsin’s cash-strapped government still owed to miners, railroad workers, and teachers.
In early 1974, Edward Heath’s Conservative government was locked in a struggle with the powerful coal miners’ union over “who rules Britain.”
Will the miners of Donetsk start the next revolution, this time in red against the orange of the protests staged by Yushchenko’s supporters against the original election with its clearly illegitimate result?
But, as Bolsonaro’s promises underscore, indigenous societies have been pitted directly against loggers, miners, crop planters, ranchers, oil drillers, hunters, and other interlopers.
The Green New Deal will not go down well with Pennsylvania’s frackers, Ohio’s coal miners, and the region’s electricity consumers.
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