Search results
4 days ago · In 1984, Arthur Scargill passionately spoke to 140,000 miners to fight for their jobs, communities and livelihoods. Coal was the black gold which kept the country going. Coal miners were the working class heroes, with the capacity to bring down a government or fuel the engine of the economy.
4 days ago · Arthur Scargill at the miners' rally in Treorchy and at the TUC Conference in Brighton; scenes of violence at Orgreave Coking plant; pickets at Port Talbot Steel Works and at Marine Colliery; striking miners picking coal from the tips; miners wives preparing food packages. (Ref. SWCC/PHO/DIS/106)
3 days ago · I don’t think there should be any surprise that the Tories considered using the army – Thatcher’s antipathy toward the miners and the leader of the National Union of Mineworkers, Arthur Scargill, was hardly a secret at the time.
23 hours ago · I see a grab for book entries – such as the UK’s trillion-pound defined benefit pension scheme assets. It is more than 40 years since Arthur Scargill lost his case for the pension fund of the National Mineworkers Union to be invested solely in the UK.
1 day ago · The Socialist Labour Party (now with a leader who’s not Arthur Scargill) obtained roughly the same amount per candidate and the Communist Party of Britain’s 14 candidates slightly fewer. There was, however, a good result for the Liverpool Community Independents party, who are allied to the left-wing Transform party, as its candidate saved his deposit with nearly 8% of the vote in Liverpool ...
1 day ago · After the defeat of the miners, that struggle was essentially over; Thatcher’s victory was aided by divisions within the ranks of the miners themselves, exacerbated by the divisive leadership of the militant NUM leader Arthur Scargill, and by the Conservative government’s use of the police as a national constabulary, one not ...
4 days ago · Niel Deepnarain is standing for the pro-family, anti-abortion Scottish Family Party. David Jacobsen is the candidate for Arthur Scargill’s Socialist Labour Party.
