Milne, Seumas. " The Making of Neil Kinnock. [36] In September 1990, the Certification Officer brought criminal charges against Scargill and Heathfield for wilfully neglecting to perform the union's duty to keep proper accounting records. Page 340. 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. RewriteEngine On When you encounter a 404 error in WordPress, you have two options for correcting it. Love him or hate him a lot that Mr Scargill and the Minors stood against in the1970/80s has now come to fruition, the uprise ofThatcherism,greed is good, stand on your neighbour to get a head! The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has stripped ex-president Arthur Scargill of his voting rights - threatening to end the career of one of the most divisive figures in Britain's recent. Therefore, Tony Benns argument is more convincing than Eric Evans as he takes into account the failures of the miners as well as giving credit to the amount of support the strike had as well. Accessed October 10, 2018. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3815426/. The End of an Era Diaries 1980-90. A miner at the age of 18, he was a member (1955-62) of the Young Communist League before joining the Labour Party.In 1981, Scargill became president of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).His attempt to confront Margaret Thatcher's programme of pit closures and anti-union legislation led to a miner's strike (1984-85). RewriteRule . Therefore, the argument that the government limited its role to upholding law and order in the dispute is faulty as many of the people who were downplaying the governments actions are known Thatcherites and consequently had ulterior motives. But Rule 43 said that a national strike can only be called if there was a ballot. It is rather ironic that his view on the EEC was shared by Tjatcher, deep down, and it is a Tory Govt that has taken us out. The movement faced a huge confrontation from the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher, and the union was eventually defeated. RewriteBase / On the appointment of Ian MacGregor as head of the NCB in 1983, Scargill stated, "The policies of this government are clear to destroy the coal industry and the NUM". Arthur Scargill and Peggy Kahn. After the miners' strike in 1984, there were accusations that Arthur Scargill had misappropriated National Union of Mineworkers funds and that money which sh. Harpercollins Publishers, 2012. ", Old Labour party constiturion, Clause 4 part IV, Yorkshire Area of the National Union of Mineworkers, "Arthur Scargill joins Battle of Saltley Gate 40th anniversary celebration", "The Nottinghamshire Miners, The Union of Democratic Mineworkers and the 198485 Miners' Strike: Scabs or Scapegoats? In this example the image file must be in public_html/cgi-sys/images/. Therefore, the fact that Scargill didnt call a National Ballot was irrelevant[11] as Tony Benn says, but the fact that Scargill authorised violent tactics that reduced public sympathy and misjudged situations may have been a factor in the failure of the miners strike. Tony Benn. Wikipedia. Free resources to assist you with your university studies! The myth of workers' control by Arthur Scargill 0 Ratings 0 Want to read 0 Currently reading 0 Have read Overview View 2 Editions Details Reviews Lists Related Books Publish Date 1980 Publisher University of Leeds, University of Nottingham Language English Pages 22 This edition doesn't have a description yet. Just click. The Anatomy of Thatcherism. Sadly, all these new political halfwits who think it is smart to ignorethe pieces of history that doesnt suit them, bangingon about the way theysee the future ignoring the fact it should be the way we all would like to see it, should remember the silent majority is just that, ignore it of forget it at your peril. Copyright 2003 - 2023 - UKEssays is a trading name of Business Bliss Consultants FZE, a company registered in United Arab Emirates. (You may need to consult other articles and resources for that information.). "Two Kinds of Reform: Left Leadership in the British National Union of Mineworkers and the United Mineworkers of America, 19821990. 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. In the 2001 general election, he ran against Peter Mandelson in Hartlepool. # End WordPress. Nevertheless, Government intervention such as the use of police and the actions of Ian McGregor was not the most important factor in the failure of the strike as many people openly criticised McGregor, including Thatcher herself. Downing Street Years. Wilsher, Peter, Donald Macintyre, and Michael CE Jones, eds. The Enemy Within: The Secret War against the Miners. [22][23], Many found Scargill inspiring; many others found him frankly scary. The Museum at Work; Health, Wellbeing and Amgueddfa Cymru ; Collections Online. January 26. Lawson takes an objective view of the events as his book was published in 1993 after a very public dispute with Thatcher where he eventually resigned. Many people blame him for the failure of Miner's Strike due to his poor leadership skills and bad judgement. 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. Accessed October 10, 2018. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3815426/. It can be argued that both Marxist and Mainstream Media view give credit to the fact that government preparations were a factor in the failure of the miners strike but they have opposing views on to what extent. By continuing to use this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions. In 1973, Scargill was elected to the full-time post of compensation agent in the Yorkshire NUM. [1] Letwin, Shirley Robin. When you get a 404 error be sure to check the URL that you are attempting to use in your browser.This tells the server what resource it should attempt to request. 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. On platforms that enforce case-sensitivity example and Example are not the same locations. That is what we need to remember these days when we think of Scargill. His nationalist backwardness on Brexit (and immigration, to judge by a letter published in the Guardian on 29 August 2017) cannot be forgiven. ",email_success: "Message Sent",bulk_noitems_advice: "No items were selected. [9] This performance strengthened his popularity with the Yorkshire miners. After the miners' strike, Scargill was elected to lifetime presidency of the NUM by an overwhelming national majority, in a controversial election in which some[who?] This website uses cookies, you can find out more and set your preferences here. 404 means the file is not found. The Labour Party was opposed to membership of the EU to begin with wasn't it, so what happened, are its current membership more enlightened. Peter, Gibbon. S.l. I've always said that if Arthur can no longer control the NUM, he'll try and destroy it. "Goodbye to all that? Somerset: Routledge, 2018. Happily, his saintly wife spent her time, during his period of madness, doing all she could to bring practical help and comfort to the hardest hit families. [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. : S.n., 1996. Arthur Scargill (born 11 January 1938)[1] is a British trade unionist who was President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1982 to 2002. Add the following snippet of code to the top of your .htaccess file: # BEGIN WordPress Which makes his present-day role (such as it is) in politics all the more tragic. [30] Lawson, Nigel. He claimed that the government had a long-term strategy to destroy the industry by closing unprofitable pits, and that it listed pits it wanted to close each year. [29] Thatcher, Margaret. Study for free with our range of university lectures! Not even many of the Stalinists he hangs round with. Darlington, "There is no alternative: Exploring the options in the 1984-5 miners' strike. [29], In 1998, Scargill and his wife, Anne, separated.[30]. According to the Morning Star Scargill said that every single MP who wants us to go back into Europe should be opposed. That would be the majority of Labour MPs, then, Arthur? He then went on to say: The deep disillusion of the mining communitywas spontaneous and genuine. Tony Benn opposes Evans view by saying the extent of the support in the NUM as a whole was evidenced by the overwhelming majority of miners who remained on strike until it ended in 1985[14]. [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. Scargill recalled how after becoming a miner, the poor working conditions and "people who should never have been working, having to work to live on that first day I promised myself I would try one day to get things changed". As for the EEC/EU, his anti- stance was in keeping with Labour Party Policy. [58][59] Scargill's appearance on the picket line was alluded to by Prime Minister Boris Johnson the next day at Prime Minister's Questions, accusing the Labour Party of "literally holding hands with Arthur Scargill". Ridley may have been trying to take credit for the failure of the strike by saying that the strike failed due to the governments preparations that included the plan he came up with. 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. He did not. }); My Style of Government: The Thatcher Years. . These days he only gets to speak at the crankiest of Stalinist events. The appointment of Ian McGregor as head of the NCB can also be argued as a factor in the failure of the strike as he was known to be notoriously formidable had no pity for the poor miners, and was determined to keep them working and living in conditions that no human being should be made to endure[24]. Scargill, along with veteran left-wing Labour MP Tony Benn, campaigned to free strikers Russell Shankland and Dean Hancock from prison. January 07, 2000. [14] The section under "staff procedures" details how Scargill monitored head office staff: Mr. Scargill's vendetta against Head Office staff has at times descended to the most puerile and paranoic [sic] levels. London: Fontana, 1992. 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. Still the Enemy Within (2014). IMDb. Page 341. Accessed October 11, 2018. Amazingly the electorate resent being told they're either racist or stupid or both, if the remain campaign had been more mature in it's approach, almost certainly a different decision would have been reached. The Enemy Within: The Secret War against the Miners. Page 158. Andrew Marr is one of many historians who support this view and believed that The Nottinghamshire miners turned out to be critical. Page 317. Yet he was a trade union leader who helped lead a strike that brought down a Tory government (1974) and correctly understood that Thatcher was out to smash the unions and that they needed to fight back. Arthur Scargill: We Could Surrender or Stand and Fight. The Guardian. If like me you lived through that period of the early seventies, constant strike action, the mid seventies when Britain effectively went bust aided by constant strikes and was branded sick man of Europe going through the winter of discontent where it seemed everybody was on strike, building up to the miners strike in 84/85, you look back and struggle to convince even yourself that we allowed such selfish destructive idealism to ruin the lives of so many in this country. [38] Thatcher, Margaret. [4] He joined the Young Communist League in 1955, becoming its Yorkshire District Chair in 1956 and shortly after a member of its National Executive Committee. The failure of the miners strike in 1984 has been seen by many as the result of bad leadership of the head of the NUM, Arthur Scargill, the lack of support for the strike as well as giving credit to the governments preparations. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d However, Thatcher, herself, has discredited this view saying He (Arthur Scargill) was making wild claims that the CEGB had only eight weeks of coal stocks. 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. Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/34498, Submitted by AWL on 18 September, 2019 - 11:48, Letters: Hands off Clara Zetkin and Rosa Luxemburg, Holodomor: the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33, Tubeworker (London Underground) (bulletin), Off the Rails (national rail workers) (bulletin), Off the Rails (national rail workers) (blog), Notts Off the Rails (Nottingham rail workers) (bulletin), On Guard (Sheffield rail workers) (bulletin). On the other hand, the Marxist/Left Wing view suggests that the strike was part of Thatchers wider attack on political consensus and suggest that the miners could have won the strike had it not been for the concerted, illegal government campaign to smash the miners union, something they had been planning for some time. [14] Benn, Tony. Person/Body (Historic): University of Leeds and Nottingham. He also represented the Barnsley Co-op at Cooperative congresses. The Guardian. The best work on Scargill was Michael Crick, Scargill and the Miners (1985). However, we have to be careful when using this source as evidence as Scargill may have been trying to justify his actions to save himself criticism. "[44] However, in December 2012, Scargill lost a similar case concerning rent on his flat in the Barbican, London. The political power of the NUM and of most British trade unions was severely reduced. The properties will tell you the path and file name that cannot be found. The names of all incoming telephone callers are recorded on a central log. He was not addressed or greeted from the platform, though as Honorary Life President of the NUM it might be expected, as a courtesy if nothing else, that his presence would be acknowledged. https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jan/07/guardianletters4, https://www.marxist.com/britain-when-britain-went-to. 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. The Enemy Within", Verso 2014. Margaret Thatcher even described McGregor as lacking in guile as he was used to dealing with financial difficulties and hard bargaining and had no experience with dealing with trade union leaders[25]. It was not , and will not ever be the liberator of the working Class, but their oppressors. 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. In 1961, Scargill was elected a member of the Woolley NUM Branch Committee. London: Vintage, 2008. Scargill also cleverly manipulated the NUM rule book creating a serious constitutional debate. Arrow, 1994. [5] Benn, Tony. Margaret Thatcher began a media campaign in order to win over the public and demonise the miners. It was a major political victory for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party. "It was Thatcher's legislation, actually giving council tenants the right to buy their own houses. Page 345. Page 343-344. This is supported by Margaret Thatcher herself; His (Ian McGregor) impression was that the police were failing to uphold criminal law and that the pickets had been able to prevent people going to work[38]. Page 341. The Socialist Labour Party ( SLP) is a socialist political party in the United Kingdom. Thereafter Scargill led the NUM through the 19841985 miners' strike. July 31, 2013. It was a defining moment in British industrial relations, and its defeat significantly weakened the trade union movement. Milne explains how the strike was a last-ditch fight to defend jobs, mining communities and the NUM itself against a government prepared to bring into play unlimited resources and its entire panoply of coercive powers as and where necessary to break the union and its backbone of support[22]. A History of Modern Britain. When working with WordPress, 404 Page Not Found errors can often occur when a new theme has been activated or when the rewrite rules in the .htaccess file have been altered. Page 342. [57] Scargill supported the 2022 United Kingdom railway strike, joining an RMT picket line in Wakefield on 21 June 2022. Person/Body (Historic): Kahn, Peggy. He has contested two parliamentary elections. In the 1997 general election, he ran against Alan Howarth, a defector from the Conservative Party to Labour, who had been given the safe seat of Newport East to contest. Harpercollins Publishers, 2012. We may criticise some of the tactics he used in the 1984-5 miners strike, but we cannot dispute that he gave real leadership and was serious about wanting to defeat the Tories. The End of an Era Diaries 1980-90. Page 13. Scargill, once the hero of the miners, now cuts a rather sad, isolated figure and this is a complex post-1985 story. Lawson also takes the mainstream media view that everything Thatcher did during the strike was to maintain law and order. (1983), Restructuring the employment relationship, Gallie, Duncan, Page 414. Authors: Scargill, Arthur; Kahn, Peggy: Publisher: Leeds [u.a.] London: Verso, 2014. A former Labour Party member, Scargill is now leader of the Socialist Labour Party (SLP), founded by him in 1996. In fact, stocks were much higher[27]. In any case, the will of the people has decided the UK will leave, we have even had a General Election over the matter. No plagiarism, guaranteed! We also know that lots of support groups popped up to encourage the miners on in their fight. He lost on both occasions, winning 2.4% of the vote in Hartlepool at the 2001 general election. his position on freedom movements In communist states such as Poland, was unforgivable He is rightly labelled a Stalinist, along with Corbyn. Put the custom structure back if you had one. [8], Scargill was a leader of the unofficial strike in 1969, which began in Yorkshire and spread across the country. Arthur Wakefield, a striking miner, presents the Marxist view that the failure of the strike couldnt have been down to the lack of support and instead must have been due to other factors. [11] Benn, Tony. "Goodbye to all that? [56], In July 2021 he spoke at the Rebel Town Festival in Jarrow. In the 1981 election for NUM president, Scargill secured around 70% of the vote. ", Gildart, Keith. All work is written to order. The students, lesbian and gay rights movements also supported the miners as they could relate to their struggle. [4] UK | Politics | Head to Head: The Miners Strike. BBC News. Arrow, 1994. This is true as we know that Thatchers government backed down from a confrontation with the trade unions in its first parliament in 1979-83 as the government felt like it needed more time in order to stock pile coal in preparation for the next inevitable strike. These days he only gets to speak at the crankiest of Stalinist events. Arthur Scargill is a British trade unionist who was the president of the National Union of Mineworkers. On March 6, 1984, the National Coal Board announced its plan to cut the nation's coal output by 4 million tons, in an effort to stem a $340 million annual loss. My father was a Communist. The .htaccess file contains directives (instructions) that tell the server how to behave in certain scenarios and directly affect how your website functions. Absolute nonsense on all accords above. London: Verso, 2014. Page 39. The judge Sir Sydney Templeman held that it was unlawful that union members were disciplined by the NUM disciplinary panel, which Scargill chaired, for appearing as witnesses testifying against Scargill in a libel case. Scargill, Solidarity and Workers Revolutionary Party ( Book ) Margaret Thatcher, face aux mineurs : 1972-1985, treize annes qui ont chang l'Angleterre by Pierre-Franois Gouiffs ( Book ) His mother, Alice (ne Pickering), was a professional cook. [9][11], A few months later, the president of the Yorkshire NUM died unexpectedly, and Scargill won the election for his replacement; the two posts were then combined and he held them until 1981. We've received widespread press coverage since 2003, Your UKEssays purchase is secure and we're rated 4.4/5 on reviews.co.uk. [33], In July 1990, the NUM executive voted unanimously to sue Scargill and general secretary Peter Heathfield. He had no means of calling a strike in Yorkshire.[27]. His policy alienated most of the Nottinghamshire miners, undermined his position with the leaders of the trade union movement, hurt the union's reputation in British public opinion, and led to violence along the picket line. 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. National Archives: Margaret Thatcher Wanted to Crush Power of Trade Unions. The Guardian. This is given credence by the fact that Scargill authorised these violent tactics, which decreased public sympathy for the Miners which was actually their greatest asset[10]. [31] In addition, it was alleged that he had taken 1,000,000 of cash donated by the Soviet Union for the Welsh miners and placed it in a Dublin bank account for the "International Miners' Organisation", where it stayed until a year after the strike had finished. EconBiz.Logger.enable_Autocompletion_tracking(); Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales. This was seen as violent and was deemed illegal. It was alleged that, of the money donated from Libya, Scargill took 29,000 for his own bridging loan and 25,000 for his home in Yorkshire, but gave only 10,000 to the striking Nottinghamshire miners. Accessed October 10, 2018. https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/37592/How the Miners Strike could have won. The End of an Era Diaries 1980-90. [8] Nigel Lawson, who takes a clear mainstream media view on the Miners strike and even admits the left-wing majority on the NUM executive insisted, however dubiously, that Rule 43 of the union allowed for a strike without a ballot[9] showing that although many people didnt agree with it, including him, it was actually permissible. He called for the cotton mills, steel plants and mines to be re-opened and that under EU rules, the government had not been able to subsidise the coal mines. [22] Milne, Seumas. If your specific country is not listed, please select the UK version of the site, as this is best suited to international visitors. Arrow, 1994. However, In , He was right. (2004) "Al Richardson (19412003): An Appreciation", David Howell, et al. Arguably, one of the most important factors in the failure of the Miners Strike in 1984 was the leadership of the head of NUM, Arthur Scargill. Would JD care to say why he writes in such a vindictive and aggressive style? 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