The End of an Era Diaries 1980-90. 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. How to find the correct spelling and folder, 404 Errors After Clicking WordPress Links, From the left-hand navigation menu in WordPress, click. Can you add one ? Page 341. A lot of other people on the National Executive at that time went on and became very respectable Labour MPs in Parliament. My mother was strictly non-political. https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jan/07/guardianletters4, https://www.marxist.com/britain-when-britain-went-to. By not calling a National Ballot the strike rapidly gained support. 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. Shirley Letwin takes the mainstream media view that Arthur Scargills incompetence as a leader caused the miners strike to fail. The miners also failed to gain the support of the dock workers in strike effort. [19] The NUM had previously held three ballots on a national strike, all of which rejected the proposal: 55% voted against in January 1982, and 61% voted against in both October 1982 and March 1983.[20]. ",confirmEmpty: "Are you sure you want to empty your clipboard? The strike ended on 3 March 1985 following an NUM vote to return to work. 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. of Leeds [u.a.] Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 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. [43] Marr, Andrew. Scargill was born in Worsbrough Dale near Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire. [39] Benn, Tony. Accessed October 10, 2018. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3815426/. Accessed October 12, 2018. 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. Just click. Wilsher, Peter, Donald Macintyre, and Michael CE Jones, eds. Arrow, 1994. [8], Scargill was a leader of the unofficial strike in 1969, which began in Yorkshire and spread across the country. The Enemy Within: The Secret War against the Miners. My Style of Government: The Thatcher Years. [43] In February 2012, Scargill won 13,000 in a court action against the NUM, primarily for car expenses, and for the earlier temporary denial of membership. I could write a million words and not be able to adequately describe the misery,hardship and dispare these leaders bought upon the people of this nation. "[28] This was in the Prime Minister's rejection of Labour calls for an apology for government actions during the 19841985 miners' strike. However, Letwin also blames Scargill for the timing of the strike; Scargill, for his part, had timed his attack poorly, attacking in the spring when the demand for coal was decreasing. Riddled with Stalinist politics and practice and some of the worst sectarianism imaginable, it has no meaningful existence today. [60][61], London Assembly elections (entire London city). Aucun commentaire n'a t trouv aux emplacements habituels. Eric Evans described him as aggressive and charismatic, but vain and politically limited[42], therefore showing his limitations as the head of NCB. This article about a political figure is a stub. Uncategorized > the myth of workers' control arthur scargill. }); This website uses cookies, you can find out more and set your preferences here. The secretary at this time was a very good friend of mine called Jimmy Reid, and we're still close friends. Arthur Scargill: We Could Surrender or Stand and Fight. The Guardian. If not, correct the error or revert back to the previous version until your site works again. Logger.logCoid("61c4e44a-8d58-45d2-8bc5-5fc2bd749aae"); On platforms that enforce case-sensitivity PNG and png are not the same locations. That is what we need to remember these days when we think of Scargill. [51] Scargill criticised Poland's Solidarity calling it an "anti-socialist organisation which desires the overthrow of a socialist state", which Scargill saw as deformed but reformable. Year of publication: 1980. The Making of Neil Kinnock. [36] Thatcher, Margaret. 11: Memoirs of a Tory Radical. I really do not care what you think of Mr Scargill today, where elseis a man supposed to go after he was betrayed by the system and vilified by the media to agullible population, a media that was run by the government of the day. London, 1984. 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. 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. 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). To export a reference to this article please select a referencing stye below: If you are the original writer of this essay and no longer wish to have your work published on UKEssays.com then please: Our academic writing and marking services can help you! His application was refused because the flat in the Barbican Estate's Shakespeare Tower was not Scargill's primary residence. 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?] Harpercollins Publishers, 2012. He had no means of calling a strike in Yorkshire.[27]. "Analysing the British miners' strike of 19845.". Many of us started in the 1950s in the Young Communist League. On any measure, Scargill was a failure who brought hardship down on those who followed him, now a pitiful figure. 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. 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. The Museum at Work; Health, Wellbeing and Amgueddfa Cymru ; Collections Online. Beyond Service: State Workers, Public Policy, and the Prospects for Tous les rsultats Google Recherche de Livres». The 84/5 miners strike brought great hardship, but achieved nothing. "Our communities are now just about dead on their feet." The strike started in Yorkshire in March . He stepped down from leadership of the NUM at the end of July 2002, to become the honorary president. So that was my initial introduction into socialism and into political militancy. Absolute nonsense on all accords above. London: Constable, 2009. Page 341. 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. In 1961, Scargill was elected a member of the Woolley NUM Branch Committee. See the Section on 404 errors after clicking a link in WordPress. Page 70. In pictures: Arthur Scargill's legacy Mr Scargill's election as NUM president in 1981 had an electrifying effect on the union movement. Harpercollins Publishers, 2012. ",confirmDelete: "Are you sure you want to delete this? Therefore, when considering both sources, Letwins Thatcherite view isnt very convincing as the argument that the failure of the miners strike was due to Scargills bad leadership is based on factors out of his control like the timing of the strike and accusations that havent been proven. London: Vintage, 2008. Page 13. Scargill opposed civilian nuclear power and, during the first Wilson ministry, became highly critical of the government's energy policy. On platforms that enforce case-sensitivity example and Example are not the same locations. He was also on the hard-left of the Labour Party, often disagreeing with Neil Kinnock who couldnt support the strike due to its illegitimacy after Scargills failure to call a ballot. 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. 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. The End of an Era Diaries 1980-90. [10] Still the Enemy Within (2014). IMDb. [35] The Truth of Nacods Shameful Sell-out. The Guardian. All work is written to order. 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. I then thought of things rather differently. A debate on workers' control. 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).. Scargill, along with veteran left-wing Labour MP Tony Benn, campaigned to free strikers Russell Shankland and Dean Hancock from prison. September 09, 2018. [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. How the Miners Strike Could Have Won. Socialist Worker (Britain). The strike gained momentum quickly and calling a ballot may have broken down this early support. [32] Benn, Tony. Arthur Scargill emerged from semi-retirement from politics to speak at a meeting of the Communist Party of Britains wretched little pro-Brexit front organisation Leave Fight Transform (LeFT) in Brighton on 11 September, alongside Eddie Dempsey (the man who said Tommy Robinson supporters were right to hate the liberal left) and other assorted xenophobes, nationalists and social conservatives. The strike started in Yorkshire, and he was not present at the delegate Council meeting in Barnsley. Arrow, 1994. Another controversial action that Thatcher took was giving the police ultimate power during the strike. The View from No. 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. (The Yorkshire Left had already decided to stand him as their candidate even before the strike.) This strengthens Milnes argument that the police brutality, authorised by Thatcher, was unjustified. 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. Thatcher deliberately chose to make the miners who continued to work look like heroes and make the striking miners look like the public enemy. [8] Beckett, Francis, and David Hencke. Notice that the CaSe is important in this example. 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". However, the people that argue this are clear Thatcherites such as Shirley Letwin, John Campbell and even Thatcher herself who blamed Scargill for the violence at the picket line mass pickets led by Arthur Scargill forced the closure of the Saltley Coke Depot in Birmingham[44] contradicting this, Seumas Milne who takes a clear Marxist view that the standard fairy tale, still routinely recycled by media and politicians alike, has it that Scargill called the action in spring in a classic example of his poor generalship and tactical sense[45]. 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). var Logger = new EconBiz.Logger(); ." It is a world of despair, of ashes, and coldness, and darkness, and the setting acts as a . In March 2014, ex-miner John Cunningham attended the memorial meeting for the two Yorkshire miners killed in the strike, Davy Jones and Joe Green. In the 1981 election for NUM president, Scargill secured around 70% of the vote. Scargill had, before becoming president, favoured moving the head office of the NUM out of London, which he described as a "prostituting place". National Archives: Margaret Thatcher Wanted to Crush Power of Trade Unions.. The Anatomy of Thatcherism. March 07, 2009. 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. In 2012, the flat was valued at 1,500,000, and had 24/7 access to concierge services. 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. Page 57. "[44] However, in December 2012, Scargill lost a similar case concerning rent on his flat in the Barbican, London. But my father never forced me to be involved in politics at all.[5]. Margaret Thatcher. John Campbell sums up the mainstream media view by saying The Governments only role was to uphold the liberty of those miners and others who wanted to work[31]. Lawson also takes the mainstream media view that everything Thatcher did during the strike was to maintain law and order. The easiest way to edit a .htaccess file for most people is through the File Manager in cPanel. Milne, Seumas. " Clearly, Scargill did fall out of favour with the Socialist movement, perhaps because it became evident that he was only happy when he was in the limelight. The Miners Strike Day by Day: The Illustrated 1984-85 Diary of Yorkshire Miner Arthur Wakefield. 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. For other uses, see, Early political and trade union activities. The Enemy Within", 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. 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. 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. 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. Seumas Milne portrays the Marxist view that the government went over the top with the preparations in order to see the miners strike fail and bring down the unions altogether. The myth of workers' control: We are fighting for the survival of our culture: Selected Co-authors Countries and Regions of . Therefore, Milnes interpretation is supported by Ridleys in the fact that government preparations led to the downfall of the miners. Vast majority of people work retail or asBarristersselling fancycoffee to people on the way to work in offices, most of them on single hour contracts working in retail parks or business parks built on the ground of old mine, steelworks and potteries that used to employ tens of thousands of men and now employ the best part of 100. 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]. [18] Still the Enemy Within (2014). IMDb. [53] He was not attending any of the events to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the 1984 strike at the NUM. Was this national or local? [42] Evans, Eric J. Thatcher and Thatcherism. [52], The Guardian in February 2014 said that Scargill had become a recluse. [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. That's what I believe". Downing Street Years. A former Labour Party member, Scargill is now leader of the Socialist Labour Party (SLP), founded by him in 1996. Page 39. his position on freedom movements In communist states such as Poland, was unforgivable He is rightly labelled a Stalinist, along with Corbyn. The Socialist Labour Party ( SLP) is a socialist political party in the United Kingdom. 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'. 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. The same nationalism explains why Arthur Scargill, alongside his industrial militancy, supports a not-at-all-militant programme of import controls, withdrawal from the EEC, and siege economy. Accessed October 11, 2018. This was denied by the government at the time, although papers released in 2014 under the thirty-year rule suggest that Scargill was right. [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". However, Evans fails to mention how campaigning in Nottinghamshire was successful and how the pickets won over many workers until the police eventually intervened. 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. 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. "Goodbye to all that? 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. Page 341. I suggest to this Conference that we have coal mines with us but they did something about this problem: they closed them down. If anyone of them has any cause for complaint they are simply showing the door because they have no unions to speak for to stand up for the rights of any working man or woman in this country. The Anatomy of Thatcherism. The students, lesbian and gay rights movements also supported the miners as they could relate to their struggle. [38], Film director Ken Loach subsequently made "The Arthur Legend" as part of Channel 4's Dispatches series. [13] Still the Enemy Within (2014). IMDb. Paul Hampton and Martin Thomas respond to Eric Lee on Clara Zetkin. My father was a Communist. He says Support for the strike was virtually solid not only in old militant areasbut also (at first) in traditionally moderate Lancashire, Durham and Northumberland[19]. The view that the failure to call a National Ballot, by Scargill, cost him valuable support is advocated by Shirley Letwin; Nor did he bother to abide by his own unions rules which required that a strike shall be entered upon as the result of a ballot vote of the members.[1] This led to the miners losing the support of many, including Labour Partys- Neil Kinnock, who felt emotionally disposed to support the miners but aware that it would be political suicide to do so[2]. If your blog is showing the wrong domain name in links, redirecting to another site, or is missing images and style, these are all usually related to the same problem: you have the wrong domain name configured in your WordPress blog. His nationalist backwardness on Brexit (and immigration, to judge by a letter published in the Guardian on 29 August 2017) cannot be forgiven. 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. It is also possible that you have inadvertently deleted your document root or the your account may need to be recreated. 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. Margaret Thatcher. [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. 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. [21] Many politicians, including the then Labour leader Neil Kinnock, believed Scargill had made a huge mistake in calling the strike in the summer rather than in the winter. 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.. [9] Scargill saw this strike as a turning point in the union's attitude to militancy.[10]. RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L] However, In , He was right. In 1974, he was instrumental in organising the miners' strike that led Prime Minister Edward Heath to call a February general election.[13]. ARTHUR SCARGILL AND PEGGY KAHN - "THE MYTH OF WORKERS' CONTROL" - 1st . After the miners' strike in 1984, there were accusations that Arthur Scargill had misappropriated National Union of Mineworkers funds and that money which sh. The strike of 1984 was covered in detail by the press. Accessed October 10, 2018. https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/37592/How the Miners Strike could have won. Either way, please contact your web host immediately. 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. Page 340. Andrew Marrs view on why the Miners strike failed is much more convincing as it gives credit to Scargills leadership skills while also saying not even he would be able to persuade every part of the industry to strike showing that Marr believes that Scargill was the best man for the job. Copyright 2003 - 2023 - UKEssays is a trading name of Business Bliss Consultants FZE, a company registered in United Arab Emirates. [4] UK | Politics | Head to Head: The Miners Strike. BBC News. This lack of support can be blamed on the leadership of Arthur Scargill; therefore, the leadership of Arthur Scargill is a more important factor in the failure of the miners strike in 1985. Thats why he can write one third of the worlds workers those who live in the Stalinist states out of the class struggle, allotting them no role but to support their socialist rulers. 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). March 10, 2004. "[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. The Enemy Within: M15, Maxwell and the Scargill Affair. McIlroy, J. After looking at the evidence, I believe that the Marxist view is more valid than the Mainstream media view in the fact that it is clear that Thatcher and her government went above and beyond in order to bring down Scargill and the miners. # End WordPress. 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