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 LALKAR online
Scargill may have had the votes of his flunkeys on the NEC to expel us from the SLP, but he is powerless to expel us from the working-class movement.
This correspondence demonstrates beyond a shred of doubt that while accusing us of violating the SLP constitution and the decisions of the Party Congress, it is Arthur Scargill and his flunkeys who are guilty precisely of such violations.
Driven to desperation by this state of affairs, he and his fellow social democrats resorted to expulsions in total violation of the SLP's constitution, the decisions of our Party Congress, and in flagrant breach of the norms governing relations among members of a proletarian party.
http://www.lalkar.org/issues/contents/jul2004/slp.html   (1029 words)

  
 Your View 21 - Arthur Scargill and the end of a fantasy
From Scargill's point of view this was essential, since he had now decided to oust the Fiscites, who up to then had still been acting as his chief lieutenants.
In this he was aided and abetted by his unpaid Fisc courtiers, who regarded Scargill, the militant leader, as someone who would appeal to the mass of workers over the heads of the revolutionary left to join his "party of recomposition".
In the general election of 1997 the SLP stood 64 candidates (including one that Scargill declared 'voided' in the middle of the campaign!).
http://www.minersadvice.co.uk/yourview21_scargill_fantasy.htm   (3541 words)

  
 Weekly Worker 338 Thursday June 1 2000
Scargill's retort was predictable: the LSA is a "conglomerate of parties all at each other's throat", he declared.
Scargill did, however, state that he had always opposed the restrictions on travelling abroad that the USSR had imposed.
He is aided, of course, by his loyal Stalinite lieutenant, London regional president Harpal Brar, who ludicrously stated before the election that the LSA's sole purpose in standing was to block the SLP.
http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/338/sharvey.html   (1283 words)

  
 Arthur Scargill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On the appointment of Ian MacGregor as head of the Coal Board in 1983, Scargill stated, "The policies of this government are clear - to destroy the coal industry and the NUM" [1].
He himself has contested two parliamentary elections — in the 1997 general election against Alan Howarth, a defector from the Conservative Party to Labour who had been given a safe seat to contest, and in the 2001 general election, against Peter Mandelson in Hartlepool.
He became a miner after leaving school, working at Woolley Colliery from 1953.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Scargill   (843 words)

  
 Paul Foot: Battle for the NUM (1988)
Arthur Scargill’s dramatic resignation from, and then candidacy for, the post of President of the NUM is of major importance for miners.
This is the curse of all elections, parliamentary and trade union, and has led to the doubts and the abstentionism even in Scargill’s home territory.
WHEN THE NUM branch at Bentley pit, South Yorkshire, met to nominate Arthur Scargill in the election for NUM President, there wasn’t a quorum.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/foot-paul/1988/01/num.htm   (2771 words)

  
 The Socialist Labour Party
The decision to form the Socialist Labour Party is not merely an act of political irresponsibility; beneath Scargill’s leftist rhetoric and notwithstanding his subjective militancy, it is an act of political cowardice.
But the central plank in his thesis that a fundamental change has taken place in the character of the Labour Party is the decision, at the special conference in April 1995, to junk the commitment to common ownership embodied in the old Clause IV of the party constitution.
Furthermore, in a general election voters’ attention is directed towards the question of which party will form the government, and small parties with no governmental prospects have difficulty in getting a hearing.
http://www.whatnextjournal.co.uk/Pages/Back/Wnext1/Scargill.html   (7378 words)

  
 Marxist Bulletin: Opportunity Squandered
Arthur Scargill was unquestionably the key figure at this congress, confirming the impressions of many that this is ‘Arthur’s party’.
The congress marked a consolidation of the party around the reformist programme of the Scargill leadership, and an endorsement of this programme by the majority of delegates.
The weaknesses in his uneasy coalition of support were readily apparent, from the over-eagerness of some to support the Morning Star, to the resignation and subsequent retraction of several erstwhile allies over the disbanding of the
http://www.bolshevik.org/mb/6squandered.htm   (4185 words)

  
 Comrade Arthur Scargill¹s Closing Speech at the Second Congress of the SLP
Scargill finished by identifying his sense of the "defining moment" at the end of the Congress: a Congress which had shown great support for the Constitution of the Party and for its policies.
He went on; "No. Tony Blair has been honest and he no longer even pretends to represent the homeless and the needy; the offspring of the trade-union movement is ditching the parent".
I echo the words of Harpal Brar and ask everyone to abide by the decisions of the Party Congress and work hard to implement them and build a strong and united party".
http://www.wpb.be/lalkar/lalkar01/09scargl.htm   (1273 words)

  
 Family History
Margaret Scargill born 1513, married John son of Sir William Gascoigne of Cardington.
John Scargill of Frithby, 1395 father of William Scargill of Frithby.
Richard Scargill (1705 - 1775), ancestor of Arthur Scargill ~ President of the NUM
http://www.portables2.ngfl.gov.uk/ascargill/family.htm   (2785 words)

  
 Socialist Labour Party (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The party was formed as a left-wing splinter in reaction to Tony Blair's re-positioning of the British Labour Party to the centre ground of politics.
At the 2001 general election the party took about 3% of the vote in seats it stood in.
Despite its declared reformism the SLP was initially entered by revolutionary groups such as the Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee), the Revolutionary Democratic Group and the International Bolshevik Tendency.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Labour_Party_(UK)   (565 words)

  
 UK miners' strike (1984-1985) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The issue of whether a ballot was needed for a national strike was very complicated, after previous NUM leader Joe Gormley had ignored ballot results on wage reforms and his decisions had been upheld by courts on appeal.
This decision was upheld by another vote five weeks into the strike.
A report that Scargill had met with officials from Gaddafi's regime in Libya[5] to negotiate support for his cause was never verified.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Miners'_Strike_(1984-1985)   (3735 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Guardian daily comment Comment: The Galloway saga has eerie echoes of the Scargill affair of 1990
In fact, none of the inquiries laid a hand on Scargill, though his main accuser, the former NUM chief executive, Roger Windsor, was found by a French court to have lied and, in all probability, been guilty of forgery.
He was supported by his union (after an initial wobble) and went on running the NUM.
The whole case against Arthur gradually unravelled and gave credence to the belief that we had been duped by a secret service plot.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,951322,00.html   (1236 words)

  
 LALKAR online
As a supporter of the Constitution you should applaud him for his action but, like the rest of your faction, and in particular Arthur Scargill, you only support the Constitution when it suits you.
The “Constitutional points” that were raised by both the five expelled NEC members and the Yorkshire REC not only disproved the original charges against us but also proved that it was the Social-Democratic Scargill faction that was constantly breaking the Constitution.
The Youth Section do choose their own representative at their Congress once every three years but that person is elected by National Congress.
http://www.lalkar.org/slp/content.php?lettno=3   (3059 words)

  
 Arthur Scargill retires, the Blairs holiday in Cumbria and Legionnaire's Disease at Barrow-in-Furness in Geordie ...
Arthur Scargill retires, the Blairs holiday in Cumbria and Legionnaire's Disease at Barrow-in-Furness in Geordie E-Zine67
He became president of the National Union of Mineworkers in 1982, and a member of the Trades Union Congress General Council.
Mr Scargill was born in Leeds in 1938.
http://www.mg002b3988.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ezine67.htm   (2181 words)

  
 Scargill: `Collaboration hasn't worked'
But it also reflects a lack of self-confidence in many rank and file delegates after years of retreat.
The congress loved it, and then voted against it.
Asked to sum up this year's conference, Scargill, who failed to regain a seat on the
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1992/76/76p16.htm   (1091 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Leader: Scargill still prefers not to ballot
Mr Scargill should try to leave the union he has so controversially led with dignity.
He refused to have a ballot during the disastrous strike of 1984-85 which broke the NUM's monopoly by creating the breakaway Union of Democratic Mineworkers and, in the opinion of many, accelerated the decline of the coal industry.
He wants the NUM to create a new post of honorary president to preserve his links when he retires in July.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,634061,00.html   (293 words)

  
 Heroes and villains
Arthur Scargill's decision to establish a single international trade union centre--the IMO--was right in principle, but in practice it relied on the stooges of Russian bureaucracy for a large part of its support.
The Lightman Report into the union's affairs became the excuse for a renewed barrage of court cases which threatened once again to paralyse the union.
A myth has grown up that the strike was doomed to failure, that Arthur Scargill blindly led his members to catastrophe.
http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/sr182/beecham.htm   (1020 words)

  
 Workers' Union - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Workers' Union
Born in 1938, British trade-union leader Arthur Scargill was voted president of the National Union of Miners in 1981.
He led the miner's strike of 1984–85 in a bitter clash with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher.
http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Workers%27+Union   (2826 words)

  
 Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2005271525
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Coal Strike, Great Britain, 1984-1985, Scargill, Arthur, Labor unions Great Britain Officials and employees, Great Britain Politics and government 1979-1997, National Union of Mineworkers, Maxwell, Robert, 1923-Great Britain, MI5
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy053/2005271525.html   (93 words)

  
 Weekly Worker 454 Thursday October 31 2002
Arthur, as national president, did not have a vote - only a casting vote.
But it was not Arthur’s decision not to have a ballot.
Later Arthur graduates to the Communist Party - although at times he is said to have denied membership, most of his contemporaries have it that he was a full member of the party.
http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/454/scargillism.html   (4823 words)

  
 BBC NEWS UK The legacy of 'King Arthur'
Mr Scargill's election as NUM president in 1981 had an electrifying effect on the union movement.
Never before had a union leader challenged so directly the prime minister of the day.
The way he had conducted the strike and the manner of his defeat gave the Conservatives the justification they were looking for: never again would a Tory Prime Minister suffer the indignity inflicted on Ted Heath who lost the 1974 general election after failing to come to terms with a miners' strike.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3499611.stm   (828 words)

  
 Untitled Document
This dispute is now regarded within the NUM as the action that ushered a new era of militancy in to Britain's coal-mining industry in the aftermath of the devastating pit closure programmes of the 1950s and 1960s.
In November, 1981 Arthur Scargill was elected National President of the NUM.
He is President of the International Energy and Mineworkers Organisation and a delegate to the United Nations, and he remains Honorary President of the National Union of Mineworkers.
http://www.socialist-labour-party.org.uk/artybio.htm   (1378 words)

  
 Obituary: Mick McGahey
It was the case that the Communist Party, in the aftermath of the Great Strike, opposed the re-election of Arthur Scargill as President of the NUM, backing instead the campaign of the right-winger Johnny Walsh.
Indeed, it is to McGahey`s credit that in the 1980 NUM election to succeed Joe Gormley as NUM President, ineligible to stand himself because of his age, he gave full backing to Arthur Scargill for the post.
Nevertheless any class conscious worker or socialist who had any real knowledge of his role in the labour movement can only, at the point of his passing away, celebrate his life and mourn his death.
http://members.tripod.com/~leftforum/mcgahey.html   (918 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Archive Search
When Blair and his modernisers seized the leadership in the mid-1990s, instead of staying and fighting - as he had urged the Notts miners to do - Scargill set up his own party.
The outgoing NUM president, who is entitled to a pension worth two-thirds of his £67,000 salary, used branch block votes to be elected NUM honorary president for 10 years on a £1,000 a month "consultancy" fee.
Enemies, inside as well as outside the Labour party, vilified him as a Marxist demagogue plotting to overthrow elected governments to impose his own brand of pro-Soviet socialism on Britain.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4472805,00.html   (851 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Opinion - 20 years on, have we really learned the lesson?
Actually, Heath, who was daft enough to call the election, got more votes than Harold Wilson, but Enoch Powell had demagogically called for a vote for Labour, so Wilson piled up more seats in urban areas with working-class, racist votes.
Cautious old Communists were not amused by Scargill and his new zealots.
Scargill launched his kamikaze strike in the summer of 1984 when coal demand was at its lowest, and Mrs T had built up a two-year stockpile in anticipation of trouble.
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=95272004   (1499 words)

  
 Indymedia UK - Tony Benn: Debt of gratitude to Arthur Scargill
Much of that legislation remains on the statute book five years after a Labour government was elected in 1997.
In reflecting about Arthur on his retirement, we should also remember his imaginative leadership and his personal courage at the Saltley coke depot and on many other occasions when he took personal leadership and was arrested and victimised for what he did.
When the Orgreave riot trial came to court, Arthur subpoenaed the police video which had a time code on it, confirming exactly what had happened and resulting in the acquittal of the men charged.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2002/08/37706.html   (889 words)

  
 Arthur Scargill on labour's lost opportunity
The government's public enemy number one, National Union of Mineworkers president Arthur Scargill, became more popular than the prime minister almost overnight.
Scargill says he used a deliberately precise formulation, “a day of action which would involve a stoppage of work for 24 hours”, before the TUC general council: “Those words were chosen carefully.
For a while an air of confidence spread like a bush fire through the community; for the first time in many years, the Tories were forced on to the defensive.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1993/119/119p21.htm   (1416 words)

  
 Indymedia Birmingham, UK Arthur Scargill in Birmingham
paper the day before ("Scargill to rally in Brum", Birmingham Mail, 5
He referred me to the work of Andrew Glynn of Oxford University and a
Mirror editor Greenslade wrote that he had apologised to
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/2006/05/340491.html   (493 words)

  
 Durham Literature Festival 2005 - We Love You Arthur
Growing up is never easy, especially in Easington Colliery during 1984.
Before George Michael was gay, before Madonna was British, before Bob Geldof fed the world, two teenage girls fell in love with Arthur Scargill.
We Love You Arthur tells the story of Julie and Lisa, two girls coming of age in a community being torn apart.
http://www.literaturefestival.co.uk/2005/arthur.html   (733 words)

  
 Arthur Scargill in directory.co.uk
Arthur Scargill (born January 11, 1938) was the leader of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1981 to 2000 and is presently (2003) the
Arthur Scargill and his miners had been seen off.
Union leader Arthur Scargill led this left-wing split from the Labour Party after its abandonment of Clause 4 which committed Labour to the...
http://www.directory.co.uk/Arthur_Scargill.htm   (194 words)

  
 Arthur
Arthur Bostrom - Officer Crabtree from 'Allo 'Allo.
Arthur Miller - author of The Crucible that I had to read at school, also one-time hubby of Marilyn Monroe
Arthur Scargill - leader of the National Union of Mineworkers during the strikes of the 1980s
http://www.izzyviper.org/arthurs.htm   (350 words)

  
 Justice for Mineworkers
On March 19 this year the highest court in France, the Cour de Cassation, ordered Roger Windsor, former chief executive of the National Union of Mineworkers, to repay a debt of £29,500.
The judgment went unreported in Britain, as did an NUM press release more than a month later that celebrated the court's ruling.
NUM President Arthur Scargill and General Secretary Peter Heathfield at a miner's rally during the strike
http://freespace.virgin.net/terry.norm/newsletter_june2002.htm   (2699 words)

  
 Arthur Scargill (1938-), Trade unionist
A life-long member of the Yorkshire mining community, Scargill became President of the National Union of Mineworkers, in 1982, and a member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress.
Scargill resigned from the Labour Party in 1996 to found the Socialist Labour Party.
He is remembered for his strong defence of British coal mines in an era of decline and the closure of pits.
http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp05736   (162 words)

  
 THE BLANKET * Index: Current Articles
In terms of the British state Scargill remains an unapologetic recusant.
Even when Scargill broached the current topical international concern, and thundered against the war in Iraq, he raised not an eyebrow in admonishment of the Sinn Fein president for having openly refused to protest the recent visit to Ireland by George Bush.
Bob Pitt, a Marxist in the British Labour Party, in the 1990s criticised Scargill’s Socialist Labour Party because it had a Stalinist style constitution barring from membership "individuals and organisations" who engage in "the promotion of policies in opposition to those of the Party".
http://lark.phoblacht.net/scargillfeile.html   (1067 words)

  
 Telegraph Opinion Scargill's stupidity
This was exemplified both by his refusal to hold a strike ballot during the 1984-85 stoppage and by his less than whole-hearted condemnation of the Soviet system.
It is often said that Margaret Thatcher was lucky in her enemies - and of no one was that truer than of Arthur Scargill, who retired yesterday as president of the National Union of Mineworkers after 21 years.
Ultimately, he was an articulate, but stupid man.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/08/01/dl0103.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2002/08/01/ixoplead.html   (366 words)

  
 Reviews - The Late,Late Review : Scargill The Unauthorised Biography
"Photographs of him (Arthur) at the (14 May Mansfield) Rally with his right arm raised in salute to the 20,000 strikers were given wide publicity.
In Scargill’s case he paid off his own mortgage before it was bought by the Union, Peter Heathfield lived in a house which was the property of the Derbyshire Area of the NUM,the National union would purchase it from that body.
In neither case did the national officials have mortgages during the strike, the houses were being bought for the NUM albeit for the National Officials to live in per age long practice, but the houses were not Their Property.
http://www.minersadvice.co.uk/reviews_latereview.htm   (3930 words)

  
 Arthur Scargill speaks in Dublin - Indymedia Ireland
Arthur Scargill was the leader of the NUM throughout the strike.
Arthur Scargill speaks on the Great British Miners Strike, March 1984 - March 1985.
Irish involvement was even closer: when the British courts froze the assets of the NUM, funds were transferred here with the assistance of the Irish movement.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=67835   (586 words)

  
 An Phoblacht/Republican News: Ireland's Biggest Selling Political Weekly
Scargill, who served as President of the most powerful union in Britain, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), for most of the 1980s, came to international prominence 20 years ago, when he led the striking miners in their epic battle with the Thatcher government from 1984 to 1985.
When delegates attend the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis in March, they will be taking part in an historic occasion for the almost 100-year-old party.
The name Arthur Scargill will forever be synonymous with trade unionism and left-wing politics.
http://www.anphoblacht.com/features/2005-01-20   (370 words)

  
 ZNet Activism HEROES AND VILLAINS: THE SUN, SADDAM AND THE BRITISH FIREFIGHTER STRIKE
The fact that FBU general secretary Andy Gilchrist has a photo of Che Guevara on his office wall was cited as evidence of his role as “a political activist; a classic Marxist-Leninist; a throwback to the Scargill era…Gilchrist is putting lives at risk.
Serious journalists attacked Scargill with “a level of vituperation verging on the unhinged” wrote Seamus Milne in “The Enemy Within”, his account of the government campaign to crush the miners.
The plight of all British public sector workers is tied up in the outcome of the current stand-off between the government and the FBU: disingenuous press attempts at moving the moral goalposts only serve to confirm this fact.
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=2636&sectionID=19   (2040 words)

  
 AYUP! MAGAZINE MARCH 2000 - ARTHUR SCARGILL
Scargill was fighting a system prepared to go all the way if necessary, where Chief Constables were prosecuting miners who had their heads kicked in by Police officers with "damaging police property with their teeth".
At the end of the day it matters not whether you subscribe to the view of Scargill as your political messiah, fighting to preserve your way of live, job and dignity, or as an agent of some imagined Marxist Leninist plot, the inescapable fact remains that he was right.
Arthur Scargill was one of the leading political voices of the eighties, reviled by Margaret Thatcher as the Enemy
http://ayup.co.uk/loud/loud0-3.html   (439 words)

  
 The Mirror (London, England): Dear Arthur Scargill, before you let your daughter marry my love- rat dad, I just thought ...
THE man set to marry the daughter of miners' leader Arthur Scargill was yesterday branded a love cheat - by his own daughter.
Angry Stefni Logan revealed that her father James had dated his estranged wife Heather while romancing Dr Margaret Scargill.
The Mirror (London, England): Dear Arthur Scargill, before you let your daughter marry my love- rat dad, I just thought I'd warn you..
http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:60693318&refid=ink_tptd_np   (235 words)

  
 Guardian Century 1970-1979 Arthur's Legends
This was followed by a story, told in both Manchester and London, about the Czechoslovak Government deciding to "reward him" with a new Skoda car every year.
For those who do not keep abreast of such tales, the Chinese restaurant story is about a girl who ate there, and got a bone stuck in her throat.
Arthur Scargill was said to be receiving ever more lavish cars, including a Jensen, and houses that became more expensive with each new telling.
http://www.guardiancentury.co.uk/1970-1979/Story/0,6051,106917,00.html   (605 words)

  
 Arthur Scargill addresses IWA(GB) Rally in Leicester
The chief guest at the Rally was Comrade Arthur Scargill.
The Leicester Branch of the IWA(GB) held on 15 August 1998 a large Public Meeting to mark the 50thAnniversary of India's Independence.
He recalled that 60 years ago, before Asian and black communities were scapegoated for the failings of capitalism, the immigrant Irish working class were similarly blamed and, to extended applause, he committed himself as an internationalist and a socialist and the Socialist Labour Party to a relentless struggle against all forms of racism.
http://www.wpb.be/lalkar/lalkar09/0903.htm   (1394 words)

  
 LETTERS
They said that Scargill had been right all along and voted unanimously for a walkout to go on the demo.
The wider working class movement had a decisive role to play calling for a fightback.
In November and December Scargill said it would have been naive and politically incompetent to call a general strike.
http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/sr173/letters.htm   (1742 words)

  
 Filling up the internet all by my little self.
The lady on the counter looked at his ticket, pointed at his name and said, "Yes, you're Mr Scargill."
So Arthur Scargill is to retire from the National Union of Miners.
Anyway, Mr Scargill was not best pleased to discover that his first class ticket to Paris did not actually get him into the inner sanctum, and he was going to have to wait for the train with the hoi polloi.
http://www.baker-street.net/archives/00000027.htm   (324 words)

  
 BBC NEWS In Depth Labour centenary Arthur Scargill: Party purged of socialism
Arthur Scargill is President of the National Union of Mineworkers and General Secretary of the Socialist Labour Party.
Writing for BBC News Online, he explains why he left the Labour Party in 1996 and his unhappiness at the way it has changed.
Neil Kinnock: Bitter fight to a new dawn
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk_politics/2000/labour_centenary/642900.stm   (596 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Film So, Tony, what does rhyme with Arthur Scargill?
Michael Feast’s Hermes is a tour de force, and were it not for his handling of the verse one would think Walter Sparrow had spent his life at the coalface.
WH Auden wrote verse for several movies and in 1937, the year Tony Harrison was born, he was preparing to co-direct Airmail to Australia, though sadly the project fell through and he did not continue to work in the cinema.
So, Tony, what does rhyme with Arthur Scargill?
http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Critic_Review/Observer/0,4267,43280,00.html   (460 words)

  
 Emperor Of Rome - Rome $U
Nominations included Constantine, Emperor of Rome, who was born in York, Guy Fawkes, Arthur Scargill and Thomas Crapper - inventor of the...
In addition, this ensign was placed in the hand of a statue of the emperor at Rome, the pedestal of which bore the...
http://www.chiphi-zeta.com/emperor-of-rome.html   (377 words)

  
 PolitiquesSociales.net -
Instead of a Chancellor Thatcher, bosses have had to make do with Gerhard Schröder who, despite his passage of the so-called “Hartz IV” labour-market reforms that take effect on January 1st, has been a half-hearted champion of change.
But if there is as yet no sign of a German Iron Lady, there is now a prime candidate to play the part of Arthur Scargill, the reactionary trade unionist who became the perfect “enemy within”—iconic, populist yet ultimately easy to defeat—for Mrs (now Lady) Thatcher as she advanced her radical agenda.
Like Mr Scargill, Mr Peters has no time for the view that modernisation is irresistible and will destroy any unions that stand in its way.
http://www.politiquessociales.net/Docs/germanysarthurscargill.htm   (1006 words)

  
 Find in a Library: The enemy within : MI5, Maxwell and the Scargill affair
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Find in a Library: The enemy within : MI5, Maxwell and the Scargill affair
The enemy within : MI5, Maxwell and the Scargill affair
http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/c75a9b6d118fc5e3a19afeb4da09e526.html   (67 words)

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