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L'Humanite
07-19-2016, 02:04 PM
In 2014 these dispossessed strikers, unjustly fired back in 1948, were promised compensation. But that compensation has yet to materialize.
Norbert is one of the miners who was dispossessed after the large-scale strikes of 1948. He is among the last to have lived through that era of incredible governmental violence towards those in the coal mines. He was slandered, fired from his job, and imprisoned. He and his colleagues spoke out, demanding justice, but for years their pleas were (...)
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