coal miners

‘Welcome to class warfare’: My half-century as a reporter covering the coal miners

June 12, 2026 By Tim Wheeler

Coal miners are locked in the class struggle at the heart of the system of capitalist exploitation.

Trump is keeping coal on life support. How long can it last?

January 20, 2026 By Katie Myers And Jake Bittle

In 2025, regulatory rollbacks and surging power demand helped buoy an industry in trouble.

Trump’s attacks on Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act bring suffering in Coal Country

December 10, 2025 By Daniel Delgado

Although the law failed to deliver a Green New Deal, it had started to revitalize jobs and the economy in West Virginia.

New crisis in miners’ health brings troubling memories

August 26, 2025 By Emile Schepers

Screening systems and compensation for victims of Black Lung has been the focus of decades of struggle by unionized miners and their allies.

Frostburg University celebrates labor organizer George A. Meyers

April 14, 2025 By Special to People’s World

The event celebrated the school’s creation of the George A. Meyers Collection in its library, Meyers’s life, and the need to defend education and libraries in the face of suppression.