Margaret Thatcher Arthur Scargill
His views are described as marxist.
Margaret thatcher arthur scargill. Arthur scargill has claimed victory over margaret thatcher by out living his old enemy. But while scargill was a revolutionary with syndicalist tendencies thatcher was a dynamic force set on destroying the power of the british left. After their embarrassing retreat in 1981 they began to prepare for further confrontations with the miners moving tons of coal from pit heads to power stations to reduce the effectiveness of flying picketing.
By tom whitehead and tomwhitehead 10 april 2013 0700 am. Arthur scargill led the miners during the 1984 5 strike which ultimately ended in defeat the bitter year long stand off between margaret thatcher arthur scargill and the num has come to be seen as. Joining the num at the age of nineteen in 1957 he became one of its leading activists in the late 1960s.
Arthur scargill was last night labelled as bad as margaret thatcher by the very miners he once led and was heralded by. Arthur scargill celebrated that he had outlived his old foe lady thatcher when he heard of her death it was revealed last night. Arthur scargill the union boss who led the 1984 miners strike reacted to the death of margaret thatcher by pointing out he was still alive it has emerged.
Lady thatcherfamously declared the miners leader and his members the enemy within during their bitter. Mr scargill led a year long miners. The militant former leader of the national union of mineworkers was.
A decade later he led the union through the 19. He led an unofficial strike in 1969 and played a key organising role during the strikes of 1972 and 1974 the latter of which helped in the downfall of edward heaths conservative government. Arthur scargill is a british trade unionist.