Arthur Scargill
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Arthur Scargill (born 11 January 1938) is a British trade unionist.
From 1982 to 2002, he served as President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).
He joined the NUM in 1957 at the age of nineteen and became one of the country's top activists in the late 1960s.
He led an unofficial strike in 1969 and played a key coordinating role in the 1972 and 1974 strikes, the latter of which contributed to Edward Heath's demise.
Marxist, he led the union through the 1984-85 miners' strike, which was a major event in the British labour movement's history.
It erupted into a tense confrontation with Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, in which the miners' union was broken.
He is now the party leader of the Socialist Labour Party (SLP), which he founded in 1996.
Early life
Scargill was born in Worsbrough Dale, Yorkshire, West Riding of Yorkshire. Harold's father, a miner and a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, served as a miner and a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Alice (née Pickering) Pickering's mother, Alice, was a skilled cook. He did not take the Eleven-Plus exam and went to Worsbrough Dale School (now known as the Elmhirst School) in Worsbrough, Surrey. At fifteen years old, he went back to Woolley Colliery to work as a coal miner. He was a librarian for nine years.
The first political and trade unions were active in the early 1980s.
Scargill recalled how after being a miner, the poor working conditions, and "people who shouldn't have been working, being forced to work to live"... on the first day, I promised myself that I would try to change things. He joined the Young Communist League in 1955, becoming its Yorkshire District Chair in 1956 and then a member of the National Executive Committee shortly after. He was elected NUM Yorkshire Area Youth Delegate in 1957 and attended the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow as a representative of the Yorkshire miners. In 1958, he attended the World Federation of Trade Unions youth congress in Prague. Scargill, a 1975 interview, wrote: "Italian review of New Left Review.
Scargill was elected a member of the Woolley NUM Branch Committee in 1961. Scargill was a member of the Labour Party in 1962. He regularly attended Workers' Educational Association (WEA) classes and Co-operative Party educational programs, and in 1962, he began a three-year, part-time course at the University of Leeds, where he researched economics, industrial relations, and socioeconomic history. Branch Delegate from Woolley was elected to the Yorkshire NUM Area Council in 1965 and was elected as a member of the Yorkshire NUM Area Executive Committee in 1969. Despite the fact that he never lived in Barrow Colliery in his home village, he was involved in the branch's politics, where the majority was more left-wing than in the conservative Woolley Colliery. He was elected a member of the Cooperative Retail Services in Barnsley's regional committee and a delegate to its national conference in 1970. At Cooperative congresses, he also represented Barnsley Cooperative.
Scargill opposed civilian nuclear power and, during the first Wilson administration, became highly critical of the government's energy policy. Scargill said after a Labour Party conference address on energy policy by Richard Marsh in July 1967, Scargill said:
Scargill joined the Yorkshire Left, a group of left-wing activists active in Yorkshire's NUM's Yorkshire region, the country's largest region. He was instrumental in the miners' strike of 1972 and was involved in the mass picket at Saltley Gate in Birmingham.