[60][61], London Assembly elections (entire London city). One of the main planks of his platform was to give more power to union conferences than to executive meetings, on the grounds that the former were more democratic. One source described them as the iron ladies of the coal fields[17]. Having read the above (barely, dont like reading lies) I felt the immediate need to respond, if anything to comfort myself. Arrow, 1994. However, Lawson then goes on to say The violent tactics used by the NUM pickets reopened the issue of Who governs Britain?. This event is held every year at the Barnsley Headquarters of the NUM and acquired particular poignancy that year as it coincided with the 30th anniversary of the strike. London: Verso, 2014. An example of this is the NACODs strike whereby Ian McGregor ordered colliery overmen to cross violent picket lines if they were to get paid. ",viewBookBag: "View clipboard",addBookBag: "Add to clipboard",removeBookBag: "Remove from clipboard",itemsAddBag: "item(s) added to your clipboard",itemsInBag: "item(s) are either already in your clipboard or could not be added",bookbagMax: "100",bookbagFull: "Your clipboard is Full",bookbagStatusFull: "Full",no_tags: "No Tags"}; Uncategorized > the myth of workers' control arthur scargill. London: Verso, 2014. However, Scargill was well known for being a formidable organiser and conference-hall speaker[6]. 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. London, 1984. (The Yorkshire Left had already decided to stand him as their candidate even before the strike.) Accessed October 12, 2018. If it wasnt for Thatchers continued support for the Nottinghamshire miners, the strike would have had their support which may have been vital in the success of the strike. : A Review of Literature on the 1984/5 Miners' Strike.". "Our communities are now just about dead on their feet." The strike started in Yorkshire in March . Strike: When Britain Went to War. In Defence of Marxism. Accessed January 06, 2019. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3503545.stm. A secret record is kept of the time at which all workers arrive and leave each day. You can try renaming that file to .htaccess-backup and refreshing the site to see if that resolves the issue. The miners also failed to gain the support of the dock workers in strike effort. Exciting, witty Arthur Scargill brought coalmining to a close in Britain far faster than would have happened had the NUM been led by some prevaricating, dreary old-style union hack. Do you have a 2:1 degree or higher? [9] He had challenged Sam Bullough, the President of the Yorkshire area NUM, to act on the working hours of surface workers, given that the union's conference had passed a resolution that their hours be shortened the previous year. The appointment of Ian McGregor as head of the NCB can be seen as a failure on Thatchers behalf showing that the governments preparations were insufficient to cause the strike to fail. 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. [20] Ridley, Nicholas. September 09, 2018. [27] Thatcher, Margaret. At the time, Britain had 170 working. Accessed October 10, 2018. https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/37592/How the Miners Strike could have won. (1978), CONTESTING THE MARKET: PAY EQUITY AND THE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING, Eigart, Deborah M., The Miners Strike Day by Day: The Illustrated 1984-85 Diary of Yorkshire Miner Arthur Wakefield. [31] There was much criticism of Scargill within the NUM from the Welsh and Scottish areas, who briefly considered splitting from the NUM. So that was my initial introduction into socialism and into political militancy. References to this book. Harpercollins Publishers, 2012. 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. Downing Street Years. If you have already uploaded the file then the name may be misspelled or it is in a different folder. The myth of workers' control The myth of workers' control by Arthur Scargill, Peggy- Kahn Filter Results Shipping Eligible for Free Shipping Expedited Shipping Available Item Condition Seller Rating Other Options Change Currency + Add to Wishlist All All Copies ( 0 ) Currently there are no copies available. Page 13. A lot of other people on the National Executive at that time went on and became very respectable Labour MPs in Parliament. 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. This had great implications for regional relations in the NUM; the executive was described as dominated by "Gormley's rotten boroughs", since every region even quite small ones had one delegate, and the larger regions had only a few more (Scotland and South Wales had two delegates each, Yorkshire had three). "Goodbye to all that? Page 70. But my father never forced me to be involved in politics at all.[5]. [17], The government announced on 6 March 1984 its intention to close 20 coal mines, revealing as well the plan in the long-term to close over 70 pits. This is portrayed by Kenneth OMorgan, who takes a clear mainstream media view. Robert Taylor depicts Scargill as an 'industrial Napoleon' who called a strike 'at the wrong time' on the 'wrong issue', and adopted strategies and tactics that were 'impossibilist', with 'an inflexible list of extravagant non-negotiable demands' that amounted to 'reckless adventurism' that was 'a dangerous, self-defeating delusion'. The NUM is not your personal bank account and never will be again. 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. Somerset: Routledge, 2018. In 1974, he was instrumental in organising the miners' strike that led Prime Minister Edward Heath to call a February general election.[13]. }); Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of UKEssays.com. A History of Modern Britain. Margaret Thatcher: Volume Two The Iron Lady. "It's so hypocritical it's unreal," he said. Thatcher, herself, advances this view in her memoirs The Downing Street Years and echoed by many other Thatcherites such as Nigel Lawson, Shirley Letwin and historians such as John Campbell. The Guardian. [18] Still the Enemy Within (2014). IMDb. EconBiz.Logger.logPageView(); T he council chamber at the Barnsley HQ of the National Union of Mineworkers is a jaw-dropping sight: a huge, oak-panelled room, draped with banners that were once kept at collieries across. March 07, 2009. January 26. Parcourez la librairie en ligne la plus vaste au monde et commencez ds aujourd'hui votre lecture sur le Web, votre tablette, votre tlphone ou un lecteur d'e-books. 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? [41] Campbell, John. Another important factor in the failure of the miners strike was Thatcher and her governments actions during the strike such as using the police force. https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jan/07/guardianletters4, https://www.marxist.com/britain-when-britain-went-to. [19] Morgan, Kenneth O.Britain since 1945: The Peoples Peace. For addon domains, the file must be in public_html/addondomain.com/example/Example/ and the names are case-sensitive. Free resources to assist you with your university studies! On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Wilsher, Peter, Donald Macintyre, and Michael CE Jones, eds. The Enemy Within: The Secret War against the Miners. 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. 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. My Style of Government: The Thatcher Years. Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales. [33], In July 1990, the NUM executive voted unanimously to sue Scargill and general secretary Peter Heathfield. 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. 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]. London: Fontana, 1992. A dialogue box may appear asking you about encoding. Joining the NUM at the age of 19 in 1957, Scargill was one of its leading activists by the late 1960s. [22] Milne, Seumas. The students, lesbian and gay rights movements also supported the miners as they could relate to their struggle. His comments followed a question in the Commons from Labour MP Lisa Nandy, who said the miners and their families deserved an apology for the mine closures. A debate on workers' control. This was a complete reversal of the policy that was promised by the Labour Government before it was put into office this represents a betrayal of the mining industry. "Scargill" redirects here. //-->, Unions on the board : an experiment in industrial democracy, Batstone, Eric, A household name in the seventies and eighties, it was easy to imagine the strike as a personal conflict between Scargill and his nemesis, Margaret Thatcher. The Miners Strike Day by Day: The Illustrated 1984-85 Diary of Yorkshire Miner Arthur Wakefield. However, we have to be careful when using this as evidence as Tebbit may have been trying to take credit for the failure of the strike. his position on freedom movements In communist states such as Poland, was unforgivable He is rightly labelled a Stalinist, along with Corbyn. After a Labour Party conference speech on energy policy by Richard Marsh in July 1967, Scargill said: I can honestly say that I never heard flannel like we got from the Minister he said that we have nuclear power stations with us, whether we like it or not. Campbell, Adrian, and Malcolm Warner. [45], For years the NUM had been paying 34,000 annual rent for the flat on Scargill's instructions, without the knowledge of NUM members or many senior officials; Scargill claimed the NUM should continue funding his flat for the rest of his life, and thereafter for any widow who survived him. Aucun commentaire n'a t trouv aux emplacements habituels. However, Margaret Thatchers intentions in this source have to be questioned as this book was published in 1993 after Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister in 1990, therefore she may have been trying to justify her actions and downplay the use of police in the miners strike. Scargill, once the hero of the miners, now cuts a rather sad, isolated figure and this is a complex post-1985 story. [26] Milne, Seumas. Your TV show 'White Light' presenter James Maw speaks to Union leader Arthur Scargill about what Trade unions can do for the youth of today. This was seen as violent and was deemed illegal. "[40] Scargill complained to the Advertising Standards Authority who criticised the advertisement as "highly distasteful". He cannot resist pointing out parallels in all times and places. 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. [13] Still the Enemy Within (2014). IMDb. Atvery lease Mr Scargill was a leader of man and lead them unlike our current prime minister who couldn't lead a pack of sheep out of a field even though he resemble one. [49], After stepping down from leadership of the NUM, Scargill became active in the UK's Stalin Society[50] saying that the "ideas of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin explain the real world". Scargill led the union in the 19841985 miners' strike. [6] Marr, Andrew. Arrow, 1994. Harpercollins Publishers, 2012. 11: Memoirs of a Tory Radical. [7], Scargill became involved in the Yorkshire Left, a group of left-wing activists involved in the Yorkshire region of the NUM, its largest region. Another important factor in the failure of the miners strike is the amount of support that it had. The Alliance for Workers' Liberty is an organisation fighting as part of the labour movement for a socialist alternative to both capitalism and Stalinism, based on common ownership and democracy. Page 39. Was this national or local? This confirms the fact that Thatcher and Ian McGregor often didnt see eye-to-eye, an example of this is the issue with the NACODs strike. She makes some bold accusations about when Scargill and his cohorts were accused of serious irregularities in the handling of union funds but this is unconvincing as it has never been proven true. He lost on both occasions, winning 2.4% of the vote in Hartlepool at the 2001 general election. The two men had been convicted of the murder of David Wilkie, a taxi driver, by throwing a block of concrete from a bridge onto his car. In January 2014, the Prime Minister, David Cameron stated, "I think if anyone needs to make an apology for their role in the miners' strike it should be Arthur Scargill for the appalling way that he led the union. 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. 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