BBC: Will you miss Arthur Scargill?
Marxist_Mike | 31.07.2002 07:34
Arthur Scargill, the militant leader of the National Union of Miners, will spend his last day in the office of President today.
The 64 year old Barnsley born miner is likely to be remembered for leading the country's miners out on strike in 1984. It became the most bitter industrial dispute in Britain's history.
Nearly two decades on, Britain's coal industry has shrunk to nothing - and the break-away Socialist Labour Party which Scargill set up, failed to make a dent on Peter Mandelson's majority at the last general election.
So, what will be Arthur Scargill's legacy?
Nearly two decades on, Britain's coal industry has shrunk to nothing - and the break-away Socialist Labour Party which Scargill set up, failed to make a dent on Peter Mandelson's majority at the last general election.
So, what will be Arthur Scargill's legacy?
Marxist_Mike
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