LONG LIVE ARTHUR SCARGILL THE ORIGINAL WORKING CLASS HERO
Mike Lane | 31.07.2002 22:24
What’s all this about Arthur Sgargill then? I would wager that the people who are having a go at him are in the Socialist Alliance. It’s crazy really, because they are socialists like us working class people in the Socialist Labour Party. Come on you guys stop criticising Arthur and join us. What’s the problems. Long live Arthur!
Call Arthur Scargill whatever you want, but I would follow him into the gates of hell if he asked me.
Here's a fine quote from the Billy Elliot website, frankly it tells me that Arthur doesn't want workers chained to machines forever more and that work isn't the be all and end all, thank god!...
"I Know that we can produce a society where man will cease simply to go to work and have a little leisure, but will release his latest talent and begin to produce music, poetry, writing, sculpture, whole works of art that at the moment are literally lying dormant because as a society we are unable to tap it…"Arthur Scargill, 1984”
Here's a fine quote from the Billy Elliot website, frankly it tells me that Arthur doesn't want workers chained to machines forever more and that work isn't the be all and end all, thank god!...
"I Know that we can produce a society where man will cease simply to go to work and have a little leisure, but will release his latest talent and begin to produce music, poetry, writing, sculpture, whole works of art that at the moment are literally lying dormant because as a society we are unable to tap it…"Arthur Scargill, 1984”
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31.07.2002 23:14
'Troops' being working class people being screwed by Scargill and every other politician involved in that particular reallignment of capitalism.
Loose your cap for the camera Arthur. No, fuck off Arthur and take all your dim marxist mates with yer.
One positive thing which came out of the miners strike was the anger of women in mining communities. Angry working class women - shake in your boots politicians :-)
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seem 2 remember 1984
01.08.2002 07:41
The cops, from london and the south, went up to yorkshire and terrorised themining communities. there were massive convoys of cops on the motorway(M1) and they laid siege to pits and
power stations an the like. They beat up the youth of the mining villages and when their fathers, came out for some kind of explanation, they to were beaten up.
Scargill was villified in the corporate media and slagged off on TV radio, everywhere. Scargill said that the government intended to close down half the mining industry and import coal. He was labelled a mad man. At ogreave the cops attaked the miners and he was arrested, the BBC played their part by
showing film of the miners throwing stones at the cops, and then the cops charging the miners. In reality it had been the other way round, the cops attacked with horses and baton charges and the miners threw stones to defend themselves.
The BBC (years) later apologized. I remember that the majority of working class people believed the tory propaganda and abandoned the miners to their fate.
Just as they had done with the,port of london, dockers in the sixties and seventies. The steel workers were next and then it was the miners again. I am not saying that Scargill is an a bloody saint but he certainly fought on the side of the workers. I always wondered why anyone would want to fight for the right too spend half their live miles underground, where they were almost certain to pick up a deadly desease.
But then I guess, times were 'ard. I reckon if some of the breed of socialists had to spend a few months 'grafting' they
might find out what it's all about ..
flocked off