[4] UK | Politics | Head to Head: The Miners Strike. BBC News. Articles like the above, years later are actually a compliment to Arthur. London: Verso, 2014. March 07, 2009. [41] Campbell, John. Accessed October 10, 2018. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3815426/. The media characterised the strike as "Scargill's strike" and his critics accused him of looking for an excuse for industrial action since becoming union president. 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 . My Style of Government: The Thatcher Years. Scargill subsequently decided to move to Sheffield, and said that he had spoken to each member of staff to ask them to move to Sheffield. Staff members suddenly taken ill, or with long-standing medical appointments, require his personal consent to be absent from the office. Page 317. [8], Scargill was a leader of the unofficial strike in 1969, which began in Yorkshire and spread across the country. Scargill had condemned the killing at the time. 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.. The strike of 1984 was covered in detail by the press. [53] Following Margaret Thatcher's death in April 2013, ITN made Scargill several offers for a five-minute interview, with the final offer reaching 16,000, but Scargill refused all the offers and did not speak to any media organisation. UK | Politics | Head to Head: The Miners Strike. BBC News. Scargill led the union in the 19841985 miners' strike. "It's so hypocritical it's unreal," he said. Perhaps theyre embarrassed by this reminder of how the Stalinist and reformist left squandered the power and influence it once had in British politics. January 07, 2000. In conclusion to my little rant, unions were formed for the betterment of its members, not to be used as a personal vehicle for selfish political dogma. Although he never worked at Barrow Colliery in his home village, he was involved in the politics of the branch, where the membership was much more left-wing than in the conservative Woolley Colliery. In 1973, Scargill was elected to the full-time post of compensation agent in the Yorkshire NUM. The properties will tell you the path and file name that cannot be found. He gained fame for using the tactic to win the Battle of Saltley Gate in 1972, and made it his main tactical device in the 1984 strike. In 1990, Scargill was accused in a series of Daily Mirror articles of mishandling money donated for the striking miners during the 19841985 strike, with many of the sources being those who had previously worked with him in the NUM such as Kim Howells, Jim Parker and Roger Windsor. He did not. "Leadership in the Miners Union-Scargill, Arthur Rise to Power. However, another reason that many people blame Scargill for the downfall of the miners is due to the fact that Scargill authorised the flying picket strategy in order to stop miners going to work. January 26. [37] Scargill reached an agreement to repay money to the NUM shortly after this. In 1965 he was elected Branch Delegate from Woolley to the Yorkshire NUM Area Council, and in 1969 was elected a member of the Yorkshire NUM Area Executive Committee. You may need to scroll to find it. [14] Benn, Tony. Thereafter Scargill led the NUM through the 19841985 miners' strike. [22][23], Many found Scargill inspiring; many others found him frankly scary. It was a defining moment in British industrial relations, and its defeat significantly weakened the trade union movement. Les avis ne sont pas valids, mais Google recherche et supprime les faux contenus lorsqu'ils sont identifis, Industrial Democracy in Italy: Workers' Co-ops and the Self-management Debate. [39] Benn, Tony. Former Scargill loyalist Jimmy Kelly, a miner at the Edlington Main pit near Doncaster in the 1980s, said he was astonished to learn of the attempt to buy the flat. At the risk of paraphrasing, Karl Marx once wrote that the great figures of history appear first as tragedy and then as farce. Registered office: Creative Tower, Fujairah, PO Box 4422, UAE. His one man mission to bring down the elected government, for a second time, and destroy Thatcherism was not only not accomplished ,it only served to strengthen the Conservative Government and Thatchers dominance of the political landscape for over a decade. Brexit: Labour movement debate, not talk with Tories! Scargill was born in Worsbrough Dale near Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire. (1998), The third way : the promise of industrial democracy, Lawrence, Dennis, Harpercollins Publishers, 2012. Back in 1983 (even before the great miners strike) the forunner of Solidarity (Socialist Organiser) condemned Scargills attacks on the independent Polish union movement Solidarnosc, but also identified the root cause of Scargills tragic error (nationalism) and denounced the hypocrisy of many of his critics within the labour movement: Its no news that Scargill has a scandalous attitude to Solidarnosc. [22] Milne, Seumas. (1980), Scargill, Arthur, He is best known for leading the UK miners' strike (198485), a major event in the history of the British labour movement. Page 340. //