TSOTM Mar 2024: The Mine Is Ours

Our T-Shirt of the Month for March 2024, made of 100% organic cotton by a worker-owned co-operative, and supporting grassroots labour unions in South Asia. This month's design celebrates a workers' uprising in Labin, Croatia, by a multinational group of around 2,000 miners, which began on 3 March 1921. The miners were a mixture of Croatians, Hungarians, Slovaks, Poles, Czechs, Italians, Germans and Slovenians. On March 1, Italian fascists attacked and badly beat Giovanni Pipano, a miners' union leader. When his colleagues found out they were furious and called a meeting for March 3 during which they decided to go on strike and occupy their mine, declaring: “Kova je naša” ("the mine is ours"). Peasants came to support them and the rebels organised armed detachments of Red Guards to maintain order. On March 7, the workers declared a Republic and started making decisions through mass assemblies, with every nationality represented. They came up with a list of demands to present to their e