Page 342. [31] There was much criticism of Scargill within the NUM from the Welsh and Scottish areas, who briefly considered splitting from the NUM. [33] Milne, Seumas. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. RewriteBase / The Myth of Workers' Control Issue 5 of Occasional papers in industrial relations Author Arthur Scargill Publisher University of Leeds, 1980 Original from Cornell University Digitized Apr. All work is written to order. (The Yorkshire Left had already decided to stand him as their candidate even before the strike.) 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. The 84/5 miners strike brought great hardship, but achieved nothing. Woods, Alan. [16] One branch of the NUM, at Annesley in Nottinghamshire, put forward a vote of no confidence in Scargill in autumn 1983 following his comments on these matters, but Scargill defeated this at a December meeting and won a vote of confidence instead. Darlington, "There is no alternative: Exploring the options in the 1984-5 miners' strike. Strike: When Britain Went to War. In Defence of Marxism. Downing Street Years. The Socialist Labour Party ( SLP) is a socialist political party in the United Kingdom. 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. Page 18. 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. Please click on a checkbox next to an item and try again. The myth of workers' control: We are fighting for the survival of our culture: Selected Co-authors Countries and Regions of . Page 343-344. 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". The Anatomy of Thatcherism. The Essay Writing ExpertsUK Essay Experts. Edit the file on your computer and upload it to the server via FTP. [36] Thatcher, Margaret. "The strike wasn't just about Arthur Scargill or Margaret Thatcher, it was about a way of life. Scargill had condemned the killing at the time. Which makes his present-day role (such as it is) in politics all the more tragic. 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. (1980), Scargill, Arthur, Here you can choose which regional hub you wish to view, providing you with the most relevant information we have for your specific region. ARTHUR SCARGILL AND PEGGY KAHN - "THE MYTH OF WORKERS' CONTROL" - 1st . 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]. [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". The Enemy Within: The Secret War against the Miners. [17] Still the Enemy Within (2014). IMDb. London: Verso, 2014. ", R.R. //--> [9] Scargill saw this strike as a turning point in the union's attitude to militancy.[10]. This strengthens Milnes argument that the police brutality, authorised by Thatcher, was unjustified. Regardless, we have to be careful when using Arthur Wakefield as a source as his diary entries will reflect his heightened emotions after a day of striking that may not truly reflect the real situation. Accessed October 12, 2018. [4] UK | Politics | Head to Head: The Miners Strike. BBC News. Many of us started in the 1950s in the Young Communist League. When you have a missing image on your site you may see a box on your page with with a red X where the image is missing. [20] Ridley, Nicholas. jQuery(function() { I then thought of things rather differently. [57] Scargill supported the 2022 United Kingdom railway strike, joining an RMT picket line in Wakefield on 21 June 2022. Because of Scargills actions, the strike was illegal, poorly supported and doomed to failure given the level of government preparations. Are you using WordPress? They were released from prison in November 1989. 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. On any measure, Scargill was a failure who brought hardship down on those who followed him, now a pitiful figure. [33], In July 1990, the NUM executive voted unanimously to sue Scargill and general secretary Peter Heathfield. Accessed January 06, 2019. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3503545.stm. A5 format. The Institute for Workers' Control was formed in 1968, building on a series of conferences over several years, to act as a research and educational body, to encourage discussion and communication between workers' control groups and trade unions, and to publish important materials on industrial democracy and workers' control. //