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	Arthur Scargill Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Arthur Scargill (born 1938) was the militant, controversial president of the British National Union of Mineworkers who led the longest and most violent miners' strike in British history.
		Arthur Scargill, the son and grandson of coal miners, was born in Worsborough, South Yorkshire, in 1938.
		Scargill first gained notoriety in the strike of 1972 when, as spokesman for the Yorkshire miners, he organized the system of flying pickets who rushed to mines or plants outside of their own area to assist fellow strikers.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/arthur-scargill (1119 words)

	Arthur Scargill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arthur Scargill (born January 11, 1938) was the leader of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1981 to 2000 and is presently (2006) the leader of the Socialist Labour Party, a political party he founded in 1996.
		Scargill was born in Worsbrough Dale, just south of Barnsley, the son of Harold Scargill, a miner and a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
		Scargill became president of the NUM in 1981, with Mick McGahey as vice-president.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Scargill (1023 words)

	Weekly Worker 454 Thursday October 31 2002
		Scargill is not and never was a syndicalist, unless you use that word in a totally non-historic sense or impart some foreign, under-political meaning to it.
		Arthur at this time was part of the broad left, a movement which saw its role as running left slates for union positions, and planning coups in branches and on national executive committees.
		Arthur Scargill came to be identified with the emerging face of left militancy.
	www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/454/scargillism.html (4823 words)

	Your View 21 - Arthur Scargill and the end of a fantasy
		Scargill's personality and reputation, then largely untarnished among a large swathe of the left and working class militants, was enough to generate real enthusiasm.
		Scargill simply told Bull to close down his journal (up to then it had been tolerated, since the EPSR gang at that time were full-blown Scargill sycophants, hoping to replace Fisc as the Great Leader's favoured courtiers).
		Scargill condemned the al Qa'eda attack on the twin towers and Pentagon (he actually believed the US administration had organised the suicide bombings itself, so as to be able to justify its 'war on terror').
	www.minersadvice.co.uk /yourview21_scargill_fantasy.htm (3541 words)

	On Scargill's call for a Socialist Labour Party
		Scargill outlined the reasons why he was calling on them to break from their support for the Labour Party and launch a new "Socialist Labour Party", to be founded on May 1, 1996.
		Scargill was attracted to the CPGB because he shares the Stalinists' nationalist outlook and a conception of "socialism" that is not socialism at all but bureaucratic centralism.
		Scargill is calling on the social democrats, Stalinists and middle class radicals to help him put forward the illusion in the working class that a that a new reformist Labour Party can be built to defend their class interests.
	www.socialequality.org.uk /elect97/slp/slplaunch.htm (3771 words)

	Filling up the internet all by my little self.
		Arthur, man of the people as always, was standing in front of me in the queue for the Eurostar lounge.
		Anyway, Mr Scargill was not best pleased to discover that his first class ticket to Paris did not actually get him into the inner sanctum, and he was going to have to wait for the train with the hoi polloi.
		Scargill, as a gesture of solidarity to the socialist movement, I'd be honoured if you'd be my guest this morning." We would sit in the comfy chairs and talk revolution over croissants and the really good espresso they make there.
	www.baker-street.net /archives/00000027.htm (324 words)

	AYUP! MAGAZINE MARCH 2000 - ARTHUR SCARGILL
		Arthur Scargill was one of the leading political voices of the eighties, reviled by Margaret Thatcher as the Enemy
		Scargill was fighting a system prepared to go all the way if necessary, where Chief Constables were prosecuting miners who had their heads kicked in by Police officers with "damaging police property with their teeth".
		At the end of the day it matters not whether you subscribe to the view of Scargill as your political messiah, fighting to preserve your way of live, job and dignity, or as an agent of some imagined Marxist Leninist plot, the inescapable fact remains that he was right.
	ayup.co.uk /loud/loud0-3.html (439 words)

	Arthur Scargill (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Arthur Scargill Arthur Scargill (born January 11, 1938) was leader of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1981 to 2000 and is presently (2003) the leader of the Socialist Labour Party, a political party he founded in 1996.
		Scargill was born in Worsbrough Dale, just south of Barnsley, the son of Harold, a miner and a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
		Scargill became president of the NUM in 1981.
	arthur-scargill.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (362 words)

	Arthur Scargill - The Plot To Discredit Arthur Scargill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Scargill was one of the leading political voices of the eighties and seen by many in the mainly Tory press as the “personification of evil incarnate”.
		Windsor claimed the NUM had received money from Libya which was used by Scargill for his own personal gain and that he was guilty of corruption.
		However due to the public outcry of Scargill being prosecuted a inquiry was carried out and found that the allegations were “entirely untrue”.
	www.student.dcu.ie /~keeganc6/plot.htm (382 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Guardian daily comment \| Comment: The Galloway saga has eerie echoes of the Scargill affair of 1990
		Like Scargill before him, the floodgates open and suddenly Galloway is caught in the wash as newspapers compete to drown him in sewage.
		In fact, none of the inquiries laid a hand on Scargill, though his main accuser, the former NUM chief executive, Roger Windsor, was found by a French court to have lied and, in all probability, been guilty of forgery.
		The similarities between the Scargill and Galloway cases are so pronounced it's impossible not to believe that the next stage in the Galloway saga, even if it takes place long into the future, will eventually end up echoing the Scargill affair.
	www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,3604,951322,00.html (1235 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| The legacy of 'King Arthur'
		Arthur Scargill and the National Union of Mineworkers took on Margaret Thatcher in a desperate attempt to halt pit closures.
		Mr Scargill remains convinced to this day that he was right: That the Conservatives were intent on shutting down the coal industry.
		By the time Mr Scargill took the helm, miners were among the highest-paid industrial workers in the country and they were often asked to support other groups fighting for higher wages.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/3499611.stm (836 words)

	Message Forum: Re: Unions over the pond (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Scargill's position was also undermined by a lot of unfavourable press.
		It was also reported that Scargill had gone to Paris under an assumed name and met with representatives of Colonel Muammar Gaddaffi to discuss financial support (later, Gaddaffi admitted to providing the NUM with about $200,000 of funds).
		Scargill had also made what turned out to be a fatal mistake by not balloting his members.
	www.rinkworks.com /rinkforum/view.cgi?post=69606 (1932 words)

	Green Left - Arthur Scargill on labour's lost opportunity
		Although still hesitant over his words, Scargill is immediately more expansive: “The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.
		Scargill says he used a deliberately precise formulation, “a day of action which would involve a stoppage of work for 24 hours”, before the TUC general council: “Those words were chosen carefully.
		Scargill is insistent that trade unionism will continue to be a force in the mining industry: “There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union.
	www.greenleft.org.au /1993/119/5217 (1365 words)

	Obituary: Mick McGahey
		Arthur Scargill remembered Mick McGahey for his 'unswerving loyalty to British miners and to the international working class'.
		Today he is canonised by the type of elements who condemned his principled stance, standing side by side with the miners` President, and later SLP General Secretary, in carrying through at leadership level the requirements of the mobilised ranks of the miners` union in the battle against the Thatcher Government`s pit closure programme.
		It was the case that the Communist Party, in the aftermath of the Great Strike, opposed the re-election of Arthur Scargill as President of the NUM, backing instead the campaign of the right-winger Johnny Walsh.
	members.tripod.com /~leftforum/mcgahey.html (918 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Opinion - 20 years on, have we really learned the lesson? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Scargill rose to power in the NUM after his flying pickets - mobile intimidation squads - won the 1974 strike and effectively ejected Ted Heath from 10 Downing Street in March of that year, in an assault on democracy that bequeathed Britain a decade of economic instability.
		Scargill launched his kamikaze strike in the summer of 1984 when coal demand was at its lowest, and Mrs T had built up a two-year stockpile in anticipation of trouble.
		Like Scargill, they are less interested in securing the future of their industries and the livelihood of their members than in satisfying ego and politics.
	news.scotsman.com /opinion.cfm?id=95272004 (1431 words)

	Arthur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arthur is a common male name, meaning "bearlike," believed to possibly be descended from the Roman surname Artorius or the Celtic bear-goddess Artio or more probably from the celtic word artos (bear).
		Arthur Scargill (born 1938), former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers and current leader of the Socialist Labour Party
		Arthur (The Tick), sidekick of superhero The Tick
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur (620 words)

	The emergence of the Socialist Labour Party
		The decision of Arthur Scargill, the President of the NUM, taken a decade after the defeat of the miners, to break from Labour and form the Socialist Labour Party, is of immense historical significance.
		The error Scargill shared (increasingly less and less so) with the Trotskyist and revisionist 'left' was the belief that the Labour Party was a mass party of the British working class with the potential to unify the British proletariat in its struggle for social emancipation, and be an instrument of socialism.
		Yet "Arthur Scargill," the SWP was saying, "is absolutely right in his assessment of Tony Blair's New Labour." The SWP's "absolute" agreement with Scargill's assessment of New Labour, however, was entirely subordinate to its overriding concern for Labour's electoral requirements.
	www.wpb.be /icm/98en/98en19.htm (7126 words)

	Arthur Scargill (1938-), Trade unionist
		A life-long member of the Yorkshire mining community, Scargill became President of the National Union of Mineworkers, in 1982, and a member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress.
		He is remembered for his strong defence of British coal mines in an era of decline and the closure of pits.
		Scargill resigned from the Labour Party in 1996 to found the Socialist Labour Party.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp05736 (172 words)

	RTE Business - Scargill addresses Dublin meeting
		Arthur Scargill tonight addressed a public meeting in Dublin's Liberty Hall.
		The meeting was organised by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions to mark the 20th anniversary of the British miners' strike.
		The strike began with one pit closure, but as soon as it became clear that more were to follow under Thatcherist privatisation, some 90,000 miners took to the picket lines.
	www.rte.ie /business/2005/0117/scargill.html (182 words)

	Marxist Bulletin: Opportunity Squandered
		But Scargill, known for his leadership of the historic miners’; strike and for his denunciation of the pro-capitalist Polish Solidarnosc, also talked, with rhetorical flourish, of the need for ‘revolutionary’ policies, of destroying capitalism and creating socialism.
		Arthur Scargill was unquestionably the key figure at this congress, confirming the impressions of many that this is ‘Arthur’s party’.
		The congress endorsement of the Scargill leadership and its reformist politics and undemocratic internal regime have caused a fundamental shift in the nature of the SLP and therefore a change in the relationship revolutionaries should have towards it.
	www.bolshevik.org /mb/6squandered.htm (4185 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Roy Greenslade apologises to Arthur Scargill
		But my heart sank when I realised the subject: I had no animus against Scargill (quite the reverse); I thought it inappropriate for the left-of-centre Mirror to target a trade union leader; but, most important, I thought the copy presented to me was both impenetrable and lacking in substance.
		But I didn't tell Maxwell how the Scargill investigation was progressing until suddenly informing him that we had to publish on March 5 to coincide with that evening's Cook Report.
		After we published, Maxwell foolishly hogged the TV limelight, reinforcing Scargill's belief that Maxwell was part of a plot.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /media/story/0,12123,942541,00.html (1760 words)

	LALKAR online
		Scargill did not, and could not, confront us with any arguments for he had none - bereft as he is of even a modicum of knowledge of the science of revolution - Marxism-Leninism.
		This correspondence demonstrates beyond a shred of doubt that while accusing us of violating the SLP constitution and the decisions of the Party Congress, it is Arthur Scargill and his flunkeys who are guilty precisely of such violations.
		Scargill may have had the votes of his flunkeys on the NEC to expel us from the SLP, but he is powerless to expel us from the working-class movement.
	www.lalkar.org /issues/contents/jul2004/slp.html (1029 words)

	Family History
		Arthur Scargill of NUM fame is descended from the Thornhill Scargills as are many of the present day Scargills.
		Arthur Scargill was born on the 11th January 1938 in a very old one-up, one-down collier's house on Pantry Hill, a steep back street in Worsbrough Dale, two miles south of Barnsley.
		Harold Scargill was a coal miner (hewer) of 6, Wellington Crescent, Bank End, Worsbrough Dale and on the 30th January 1932, at the age of 25, at Barnsley Registry Office he married Alice Pickering - also aged 25.
	www.pages.portables2.ngfl.gov.uk /ascargill/family.html (2785 words)

	Green Left - Scargill: 'Collaboration hasn't worked' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		King Arthur, as he was affectionately known to his members during the 1984-85 miners' strike, offered a clear alternative to the movement's current path of decline.
		Scargill often appears as a lone voice at such forums, but clearly there is a large degree of support among many union activists for a more determined approach to industrial relations.
		Scargill says it's clear “that the policies of the apologists who advocate collaboration have not worked.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1992/76/76p16.htm (1031 words)

	Enemies Within?
		On the one hand he attributes the view of the NUM as a subversive threat to'the Thatcherite faction in the Cabinet and their supporters in the security services....[for whom] the NUM under Scargill's stewardship was the most serious domestic threat to state security in modern times'.
		The miners' strike and the relationship between the CPGB and Arthur Scargill is the most interesting bit of Beckett's history of the Party.
		Scargill described Ramelson as 'a mentor of mine' in the Ramelson obituary in the Guardian, April 16 1994
	www.lobster-magazine.co.uk /articles/l29enemy.htm (1999 words)

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