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All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

~Arthur Scargill

Topics: Economic Indeed Miners Often Other Strength Too Trade Underestimate

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Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone.

~Arthur Scargill

Topics: April British British People Call Contrast Democrats Far Gone How How Far Labour Liberal Participate Party People Prepared Right Shows Strike Were

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If you've got an industry where you've got massive investment, it doesn't matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.

~Arthur Scargill

Topics: Alternative Bring Got Industry Investment Lose Massive Matter Money Still Supplies Where Whether You

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The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.

~Arthur Scargill

Topics: Battle Best Change Day Government Had Important Industrial Labour Merely Movement Opportunity Situation Struggle Transform Win Workers Years

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The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.

~Arthur Scargill

Topics: Action Calling Concrete Did Failed Giving Industrial Instead Labour Labour Party Nothing Party Support Take Trade Unions Workers

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The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.

~Arthur Scargill

Topics: Also Applaud Britain Eastern Eastern Europe Europe Labour Labour Party Leadership Millions Millions Of People Need Party People Philippines Produce Quite Streets Trade Trade Union Trouble Understanding Union Willing Without

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There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.

~Arthur Scargill

Topics: Clearly Determined Feeling Nonsense Size Strength Union

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Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.

~Arthur Scargill

Topics: Action Associations Begin Change Change Things Demonstrations Direct Important Marches Need People Rallies Sooner Them Things Understand Wide You

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You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament.

~Arthur Scargill

Topics: Alternative Body Emergence Expression Gives May Movement New Parliament Party Policy Political Political Party Represents See Socialist Trade Trade Union Union Very Views Which You

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Politician

Born: January 11th, 1938

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