Arthur Scargill
Politician
1938-01-11
Arthur Scargill is a British trade unionist and political figure. He was born on 1938-01-11 and is best known for leading the National Union of Mineworkers during the 1984-85 miners strike. He later founded the Socialist Labour Party.
Quotes by Arthur Scargill
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The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.
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You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament.
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All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.
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The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.
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My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.
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