Arthur Scargill
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Arthur Scargill is a British trade unionist who was President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1982 to 2002. He is best known for leading the 1984-1985 UK miners' strike, a major event in the history of the British labour movement.
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I did not join this Party to have a yuppy-land approach, to run capitalism better than the Tories. I joined this party to change this society and create a socialist alternative.
Speech to the Labour Party Conference (3 October 1988), quoted in "Scargill in furious attack on reform", The Times (4 October 1988), p. 9
I am opposed to Solidarity because I believe that it is an anti-socialist organisation which desires the overthrow of a socialist state.
Letter to left-wing newspaper Newsline (7 September 1983), as quoted in the "Scargill angers unions with Solidarity attack", Glasgow Herald
A fight back against this Government's policies will inevitably take place outside rather than inside Parliament.
Speech in Perth (4 July 1983), quoted in Paul Routledge, "Pit leaders seek backing for big pay increases", The Times (5 July 1983), p. 1
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