BBC: Will you miss Arthur Scargill?
Marxist_Mike | 31.07.2002 07:34
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
Comments
Hide the following 2 comments
Part lion part donkey
31.07.2002 11:33
I do feel quite sorry for the man because I believe his heart was in the right place, and with the full force of the state ranged against him; govt. police, mi5 etc as well as the press, he managed to stand his ground incredibly well. However, his Stalinist arrogance harmed a lot of people and this can't be easily forgiven.
I don't think he will continue to contrbute anything meaningful to the left, apart maybe from lessons in how not to do things.
Good principles, dreadful strategy.
The ghost of James Larkin
A less cliched view of Scargill
15.01.2004 22:34
Dan Neville
e-mail: DNeville2001@yahoo.co.uk