Arthur Scargill Quotes

• I wouldn’t vote for Ken Livingstone if he were running for mayor of Toytown.

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• I speak of that most dangerous duo-President Ray-Gun and the plutonium blonde, Margaret Thatcher.

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• My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says that your life depends on your power to master words.

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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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• Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we’ll begin to change things.

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• There’s a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.

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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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• 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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• 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.

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• If you’ve got an industry where you’ve got massive investment, it doesn’t matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.

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• Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party’s gone.

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• All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

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Arthur Scargill (12)

Birth:	11th January, 1938
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Politician, Union Leader

About

Arthur Scargill was born in Worsbrough Dale, Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire. He is a British politician and trade unionist who was president of the National Union of Mineworkers  from 1982 to 2002. In 1973, he was instrumental in organising the miners' strike that toppled Edward Heath's Conservative Government in March 1974. A decade later, he led the union through the 1984–85 miners' strike, a key event in British labour and political history. A former Labour Party member, he is now the leader of the Socialist Labour Party, which he founded in 1996.

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