var Logger = new EconBiz.Logger(); Page 51, [9] Lawson, Nigel. Scargill, Arthur, (1978) CONTESTING THE MARKET: PAY EQUITY AND THE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC . In this example the file must be in public_html/example/Example/. [40] Tony Benn. Wikipedia. The NUM is not your personal bank account and never will be again. London: Verso, 2014. London: Pan Books, an Imprint of Pan Macmillan, 2017. After the miners' strike in 1984, there were accusations that Arthur Scargill had misappropriated National Union of Mineworkers funds and that money which sh. London: Fontana, 1992. ", Howell, David, et al. The properties will tell you the path and file name that cannot be found. When you encounter a 404 error in WordPress, you have two options for correcting it. He had been a Communist and retained strong Marxist views and a penchant for denouncing anyone who disagreed with him as a traitor Scargill had indeed been elected by a vast margin and he set about turning the NUM's once moderate executive into a reliably militant group By adopting a position that no pits should be closed on economic grounds, even if the coal was exhausted more investment would always find more coal, and from his point of view, the losses were irrelevant he made sure confrontation would not be avoided. Accessed January 06, 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/mar/07/arthur-scargill-miners-strike. That violence strengthened the stature of the Coal Board and the Thatcher government. Accessed October 10, 2018. https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/37592/How the Miners Strike could have won. [21] Ridley, Nicholas. Therefore, the argument that Scargills leadership could have been one of the reasons that the miners strike failed is partly true as we know that due to Scargills decision to not call a national ballot he ended up losing key supporters such as the Labour party and many members of the public who couldnt support the strike as it was unofficial and didnt favour Scargills violent tactics. [5] In 1957 he was elected NUM Yorkshire Area Youth Delegate, and attended the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow as a representative of the Yorkshire miners. National Archives: Margaret Thatcher Wanted to Crush Power of Trade Unions.. London: Vintage Books, 2008. However, we have to be careful when taking Nicholas Ridleys account at face value as he was a known Thatcherite and also came up with the Ridley Plan that outlined how to deal and prepare for a potential strike; Perhaps my confidential annexe had been worthwhile after all. 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[9] Scargill saw this strike as a turning point in the union's attitude to militancy.[10]. Just click. RewriteEngine On [38] Thatcher, Margaret. A History of Modern Britain. July 31, 2013. Scargill has so burnt his bridges with the NUM and the broad left of the labour movement that his name is never mentioned at Durham miners gala or at other miners strike commemorations. S.l. Page 39. The View from No. The miners also failed to gain the support of the dock workers in strike effort. Page 317. My mother was strictly non-political. RewriteRule . Marching to the Fault Line: The 1984 Miners Strike and the Battle for Industrial Britain. Scargill admitted there was 'bad blood' between him and the NUM general secretary Chris Kitchen, who said, "I honestly do believe that Arthur, in his own world, believes that the NUM is here to afford him the lifestyle that he's become accustomed to. However, many people argue that there was a lot of support for the strike so therefore it couldnt have been such an important factor in its failure in 1985. There was some controversy in February 1985 when Times journalist Paul Routledge engaged the Queen in discussion on the strike, and the Queen said that the strike was "all about one man", which Routledge objected to. Page 13. Page 345. An article published in The Times in August 2015 stated that Scargill had spoken to the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union conference in June 2015, and that he was due to appear alongside Jeremy Corbyn at the Orgreave Truth & Justice Campaign in September 2015. The strike started in Yorkshire, and he was not present at the delegate Council meeting in Barnsley. [1] Letwin, Shirley Robin. He has contested two parliamentary elections. In May 2009, he was a candidate for the Socialist Labour Party for one of London's seats in the European Parliament. Many people also argue that the police werent as brutal as some other accounts made them out to be and that they were just doing their jobs in maintaining law and order. He also represented the Barnsley Co-op at Cooperative congresses. Harpercollins Publishers, 2012. He did not. National Archives: Margaret Thatcher Wanted to Crush Power of Trade Unions. The Guardian. (1988), Trade unions and politics : thatchers assault on the unions ; the unions response, Kahn, Peggy, : A Review of Literature on the 1984/5 Miners' Strike.". [25] Thatcher, Margaret. It was not , and will not ever be the liberator of the working Class, but their oppressors. It only demonstrates the individual and threat he was. Arthur Scargill and Peggy Kahn. Margaret Thatcher: Volume Two The Iron Lady. It is reported that the police were getting between 600 and 1000 a week and many people believed that there just arent that many police available to move about. Year of publication: 1980. We're here to answer any questions you have about our services. [47], In 1996, Scargill founded the Socialist Labour Party after the Labour Party abandoned the original wording of Clause IV advocating the public democratic ownership[48] of key industries and utilities from their constitution. vufindString = {bulk_email_success: "Your item(s) were e-mailed",bulk_save_success: "Your item(s) were saved successfully",close: "close",loading: "Loading",sms_success: "Message sent. Arrow, 1994. Therefore, without support from key groups such as the Nottinghamshire miners and the dock workers, the striking miners were isolated which may have led to the failure of the strike itself. Please click on a checkbox next to an item and try again. You may need to scroll to find it. Scargill joined the Labour Party in 1962. My Style of Government: The Thatcher Years. [41], In 1993, Scargill tried to use Thatcher's flagship Right to Buy scheme to buy a flat on the Barbican estate in central London. But my father never forced me to be involved in politics at all.[5]. He also stated regarding Brexit that "we should just invoke the first clause of Article 50 and that means we could leave the EU tomorrow". 404 means the file is not found. This Mainstream media view holds that the strike failed because of Scargills extreme beliefs and bad decisions. He did not take the Eleven-Plus exam and went to Worsbrough Dale School (now called the Elmhirst School). [15] However, Scargill's statements in the years after becoming NUM president divided left-wing opinion with his support of the Soviet Union, most notably when he refused to support the TUC's positions on the Solidarity union in Poland or on the Soviet shooting down of the Korean Air Lines Flight 007. "[46] Kitchen says that Scargill "has had 30 years of decent living out of the union, and he's got a pension that's second to none. Scargill opposed civilian nuclear power and, during the first Wilson ministry, became highly critical of the government's energy policy. Arthur Scargill, with his odd and sometimes monomaniacal-seeming habit of referring to himself in the third person, was in some ways a throwback to turn-of-the-century radicalism, a syndicalist . If this doesn't work, you may need to edit your .htaccess file directly. Page 22. March 07, 2009. //--> Following these results, Thatcher urged Ian McGregor to fix the problem, she describes how time and time again he (Ian McGregor) and his colleagues were outmanoeuvred by Arthur Scargill and the NUM leadership[36]. "Analysing the British miners' strike of 19845.". In 2012, the flat was valued at 1,500,000, and had 24/7 access to concierge services. /index.php [L] However, if the outcome of the 84-5 strike can be regarded, at one level, as a tragedy, then Scargills post-85 trajectory can only be viewed as an even deeper tragedy. March 10, 2004. Bone figurines of waterbirds made about 16,000 B. C., which were found in Mal'ta in Siberia, share the symbolism of the wild gander . The View from No. However, In , He was right. This is unfair as after the NCB accidently announced pit closures, the strike gained momentum very quickly forcing Scargill to just go along with it. McIlroy, J. Because of Scargills actions, the strike was illegal, poorly supported and doomed to failure given the level of government preparations. (1998), The third way : the promise of industrial democracy, Lawrence, Dennis, This is given credence by striking miner, Arthur Wakefield; This time the police go berserk and the Riot Squad charge up the field with the Calvary they turn to where we are standing peacefully picketing and start hitting whoever they come across[34]. In 1973, Scargill was elected to the full-time post of compensation agent in the Yorkshire NUM. Page 161. See also V. L. Allen, The Militancy of the British Miners (1981); N. Hagger, Scargill the Stalinist (1984); and "What Drives Arthur Scargill?"The Sunday Times of London (July 15, 1984).. [6] Marr, Andrew. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d The strike of 1984 was covered in detail by the press. The most notable of these being the Women Against Pit Closures (WAPC) mainly made up of miners wives or women that grew up in mining communities. His mother, Alice (ne Pickering), was a professional cook. [5] Benn, Tony. The Myth of Control: Created by Mikail Chowdhury, Sana Soni. This view is supported to some extent by Labour minister Tony Benn, one of Thatchers fiercest critics, and historian, Seumas Milne who argued that the governments extensive preparations and actions during the strike led to its failure in 1984. He had no means of calling a strike in Yorkshire.[27]. ",email_success: "Message Sent",bulk_noitems_advice: "No items were selected. A History of Modern Britain. Nigel Lawson describes how the government were able to persuade the working miners to cross the violent picket lines; Those who continued to work were portrayed as heroes (and behind the scenes a considerable amount of private money was raised to help them resist the Scargillite intimidation)[30]. In pictures: Arthur Scargill's legacy Mr Scargill's election as NUM president in 1981 had an electrifying effect on the union movement. This included Norman Tebbits radical reforms[39] as put by Tony Benn, who was newly elected to the mining seat and a clear supporter of the 1984-85 Miners strike[40]. If you have already uploaded the file then the name may be misspelled or it is in a different folder. [31] There was much criticism of Scargill within the NUM from the Welsh and Scottish areas, who briefly considered splitting from the NUM. Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales. you only have to look at the current state of our country after Cov19torealise that we have noindustry left! BATTLE FOR BRITAIN; on the 25th Anniversary of the Miners Strike, NORMAN TEBBIT, Reveals Why He Believes Defeat Would Have Been the Death of Democracy.. Page 70. However, it can be argued that government preparations werent sufficient enough in order to bring down the miners. At the risk of paraphrasing, Karl Marx once wrote that the great figures of history appear first as tragedy and then as farce. "The strike wasn't just about Arthur Scargill or Margaret Thatcher, it was about a way of life. However, we have to question Lawsons motives behind this, as he may have naturally blamed Scargill for the failure of the strike to protect his political reputation as it legitimises his role in opposing the strike. Accessed October 12, 2018. "Goodbye to all that? A debate on workers' control. Some scholars have concluded that Scargill's decisive tactical error was to substitute his famous flying picket for the holding of a national strike ballot. London: Vintage, 2008. 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