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.
More Quotes from Arthur Scargill:
There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.Arthur Scargill
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
All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.
Arthur Scargill
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
In 1984, the miners' union, which was down to about 180,000, was able to sustain a national industrial dispute for one year and four months.
Arthur Scargill
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
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