Former President of the NUM, Arthur Scargill at the 40th anniversary celebration of the Miners Strike in Dodworth Miners Welfare. Also featuring Rianne Hooley, Unison.
The UK has 300 years of coal reserves at 1980s rate of use and were coal to receive the same subsidies as nuclear power and renewables then people could have been paid to use electricity and natural gas made from coal.
All lost now. They concreted over the mines and built retail parks and housing estates on them. Be impossible to access the coal seems at economical points now. T0ry b@stards have a lot to answer for.
@@thehellyousay Technology exists for mining extraction, transportation, storage and processing to be greatly automated with risks to humans minimised.
@@thehellyousayGeoengineering Watch has information about chemtrails containing barium, strontium, aluminium nanofibres being sprayed in the skies worldwide day and night.
@@earth_sunlove how about the innocent people and children of Israel who have died / injured in random rocket attacks across the border. Convenient forgotten that ?
Thatcher died at the age of 88. Scargill at 86 may or may not live to a greater age and wtf cares if he does. The interesting difference between these two was that Thatcher believed in democracy and Scargill believes in mob rule
fishy rishy should be made to watch this video and shown that the sentiment over gaza and the feeling of westminster's failure, is not exclusive to the muslim community that is why rochdale voted for george galloway and david tully
Making anyone watch this is beyond heartless. No matter how much you hate poor Mr Fishy Soonak you surely must be devoid of all humanity if you would subject even your worst enemy to this crap
As a striking Derbyshire miner, your efforts will never be forgotten. Without you, and the GOOD people of Britain and throughout the world we couldn't have stayed out as long as we did. I THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. ✌✌........
Absolutely correct about Saltley in 1972 Arthur I was there when we were joined by the factory workers and that resulted in the plant being closed Respect to Arthur Scargill history is proving him to be correct in everything he predicted at that time Respect to every striking miner and their families who stood their ground in the 1984 strike ✊✊🏿✊🏽
Respect to you sir , I was one of the strikers that had a year without pay & looked on in horror at how thatcher deployed the police at Orgreave with the sole intention to physically assault the striking miners, don’t get me wrong the miners retaliated out of self defence but I was there & the press coverage was similar to Hillsboro, disgusting , still a Scargill man to this day ! It’s amazing how the wealthy elite printed press circle their wagons when someone like Scargill & Corbyn get anywhere near power ! Thankyou !
@@marksykes5434 Ultimate respect to you Mark. Generations of us producing coal to meet the energy requirements of the nation and treated appalling badly by the Thatcherite ruling class Shame on them !!!! ✊✊🏿✊🏽
@@barrywest2170 Bozo was even recently recorded as saying that they destroyed the coal industry because they knew it was bad for the environment ! Thanks Barry 👍✊🏻
@Paxanglorum I started work in the mining industry in 1958 Any pit closures during the Wilson government periods of government were due older colliery coal seams being worked out or to unsafe to mine. Any workers affected by a pit closure were always found alternative employment at another colliery In my particular case in 1963 when the old pit closed we were re employed at at brand new colliery This was very different to the butchering of the industry which happened during the Thatcher government which lead to the wholesale destruction and devastation of mining communities I hope this will help you to understand what actually happened and what the 1984 strike was all about ✊✊🏿✊🏽
I was delighted, whippet on lap, to sit, on the Waterloo/Yorkshire train and grabbed the free seat next to Arthur. As each train staffer as they passed, paid respect and solidarity. Sitting across from Arthur was a smart, thirty-ish senior management staffer who wanted to challenge strikers . What impressed me was how he was able to spend, in those days of war, his time, patience and sincere explanations of the strikes and how Thatcher would ruin of the nation. Much to my chagrin I only got to say a few words of solidarity on leaving the train.
Even before the strike, he was loved by Yorkshire miners for his role in winning compensation for miners who drowned in the Lofthouse colliery disaster. NCB claimed it was unreasonable for them to be expected to know there was an old flooded pitt close to the new pit. Arthur went to the University of Leeds archives and found documents detailing the old pit showing if the NCB had done due diligence they would have know the location of the old pit. Those miners died horrific deaths drowning in the dark underground. And this document won the court case for their families. People don’t forget stuff like that.
In the 1984-5 strike we were all miligned it was part of Thatchers plan "the enemy within" remember?. With the help of Murdoch and the right-wing media, she managed to keep a large part of the country "on-side". Without that support she would have failed.
These people are the Salt of t'Earth. Arthur Scargill speaks for all decent men and women as he has done for decades. You can see he never had a price. There are a fair few men and women like him in UK. These should be the country's true leaders.
@denzel270. Don’t know if this is true as it’s heresay. Apparently, , the NUM paid for Mr. Scargill’s flat in The Barbican, City of London while he was NUM leader. And a hairdresser went to his home every morning before Mr. Scargill made national TV and public appearances to fix his hair. All the while, the striking miners were living on the breadline. And - after his “retirement” Mr. Scargill expected the seriously depleted NUM to fund his private car and other associated Union “expenses”. Wouldn’t surprise me in the least if it was true. Smacks of “Pull up the ladder, cos’ I’m alright Jack!” Stay safe and well.
@@denzel270Agreed, just like Red Robbo at Longbridge. These union leaders used their members as cannot fodder to further their ideology whilst skimming a nice living off the member’s dues. Has Scargill still got tie NUM flat in London?
@@denzel270people like you have destroyed Britain. Tell me are you proud of your legacy? Britain will never be an industrial world power again because of your lot. Well done…I’m sure the Chinese, Indians, Germans, Americans are very happy with you.
Thank you for publishing. What a way to treat people (a community) that worked in terrible conditions. Shame on the media. Shame on Government parties and MPs. The same thing with GAZA. Well said Arthur. Thank you and greetings to you all.
The man who used thousands of pounds of NUM money as if it was his own, with a £34000 per year flat in London while Miners and their families went hungry and cold. Complete Rat.
Fair brought a tear to my eye that, and I was barely a teenager when it was all going on, but I knew I was 'on his side' even though I wasn't entirely sure what that was! Years later my Mum casually told me she was in the YCL in Leeds in the fifties or early sixties and used to be going out with Arthur's best mate so he'd been round for Sunday tea a couple of times. I was really pleased about that! So good to see him again, and to see the respect he still gets from the people that matter to him.
He made some big errors but his analysis of the goals of the establishment to destroy the miners was the key to destroying all workers rights and were still paying for that today
Usual diatribe of lies, fact more pits were closed under Labour than the Tories, fact the pits would still be dead by now no matter which government were in power with advent of diesel powered trains, gas and electric central heating, power stations generating by using natural gas, wind and solar farms, and the demise of the steel industry due to steel being cheaper to import there was no demand for coal, as for Scargill how the hell he has the nerve to show his face to the miners after he stole from them
maybe he made some mistakes I don't know but i'll tell you this I would never trust a man who did not make mistakes--the only leftists who do not make mistakes are the ones who sit around in pure trotskyite or ml groups and spout all the "correct" answers a do nothing --if you fight you will make mistakes if you don't fight you are useless
Thank you again for publishing Arthur Scargill's speech Crispin. My wife and I supported the 1984/85 strike with food and money. Listening to Arthur today, I've learnt a couple of things I never knew at the time. Carry on as long as you can Arthur.
When he brought coach loads of miners down to London for the Grunwick picket line back in 1977, stepped off the bus and and was arrested in about 2 seconds ; they were scared of him long before Thatcher 😂. Top boy, Arthur and great to hear him once again. Respect to the sister who gave the introduction, remembering the smells. I remember the sounds of plastic buckets being rattled, full of coins as funds were collected outside all the tube stations. We gave but not enough😢
I was 15 in 1983 and I remember every night my late parents watching the news and seeing the brave mining communities fighting to save the pits. Every night at tea time we as a family were glued to the TV. My dad cleared factories with scrap iron and metal and my parents never claimed a penny of support from the state only family allowance, now known as child benefit. Due to the situation with the steel works the price per ton of scrap iron and metal went down and my parents were struggling. They were worried but they understood the reasons. We watched as community kitchens opened to feed the miners and their families, the cooking being done by the miners wives ect. I remember mum and dad sending £10 to help the miners cause, they didn't have much coming in at the time but like they said, we do have food. Thatcher and her Tory government were the start of the break up of families and the working class communities of Britain. Look at what is going on now with the Tory party in power, yet again the working class are suffering. This New Labour lot are no better, how can they call themselves socialists when they are just as bad as the Tories. I struggle who to vote for. To see Arthur Scargill was amazing and brought back many memories from being a young girl. Kind regards Angeline ❤️ xx
I was a similar age and my dad was on strike for the duration with the vast majority of the Kent coalfield. I remember the hardship but it gives me a warm glow all these years later to think of families out there like yours. We pretty much thought we and the other communities were on our own, the "enemy within" as the media portrayed us. Thank you.
@@hackedoff736 Things were so hard for all you mining families and so unfair. Thatcher has destroyed so many families, communities and ways of life. It was hard for us to see but much harder for you to live it day in day out. Kind regards Angeline ❤️ xx
Thanks for this video, Crispin, and for giving us the chance to hear Arthur Scargill's heartfelt words at the 40th anniversary of the Miners' Strike and their valiant struggles against Thatcher's draconian policies aimed at the working class and the Trade Union movement: it was a speech full of spirit and wit - he's lost none of his fire or determination. Very heartened to hear his support for the Palestinian people: forever in solidarity.
I remember Libya donating to the miners, he paid £ 29.000 off his bridging loan plus £ 25.000 towards his house, he only gave £ 10. 000 to the Nottinghamshire miners, check it out. Greed
Nice try, looks like you should have read that the claims about paying off the mortgage were false though. "The editor of the Daily Mirror at the time, Roy Greenslade, wrote an article in The Guardian in May 2002 to apologise to Scargill for the false claims about paying off the mortgage and for putting too much trust in Roger Windsor, who at the time had still not repaid the £29,500 that he had taken from the Miners' Welfare Fund and that the Lightman Report had asked that he repay."
Long life and best wishes Arthur for standing up for the first British victims of Neoliberal capitalism when I was just 3. If a nation had have listened and stood with the miners in overwhelming numbers, my life would have been better for it.
Well said. I doubt many now grasp the pivotal role the Miners played in the UK economy then, and why this was essential for their collective destruction, for the scumbags in Westminster/Downing Street/The City.
It was at that time i lost all respect for the police who allowed themselves to become a gang of thugs that would have been at home in a South American fascist dictatorship, not one of those scumbags was ever prosecuted for lying on oath about Orgreave.
We knew then what the police and military were all about, heroes my arse, nothing but hired thugs and killers, the first line of defence against the establishment. Breaking the solidarity of the workers followed by the sell off of social housing destroyed britains communities, we've been divided ever since.
Fact is she won a Landslide Election after defeating Scargill. He maybe 86 but Castro was old when he went. Will be Interesting to see the future of Cuba.
He started a strike without a meaningful ballot of members and in March after Thatcher had been stockpiling coal. You have to hand it to him, Arthur was a master tactician.
Yes, the overtime ban was working, and stocks were coming down but nowhere near the numbers required= calling a strike without a ballot at the start of a long summer was suicidal. It was the Yorkshire miners who elected him, and they had the power to unelect him- he didn't have the ability to reason with or stand up to them. Had the strike been organised properly it could have succeeded, unfortunately it was a mess from day one.
To true on that one sir you hit the nail on the head commie dictators they all where that lennin hat dont they corbin weres one as well that all you need to know champagne commies@@ElJay2412
I didn’t understand the strike, mum was a Tory and believed the miners were trying to bring down the country. She read the daily mail and believed all that. But 40yrs ago we had an nhs, free schools, benefits affordable housing. All gone now. Vote green Rishi and Starmer aren’t going to make our lives better. Barb
Arthur made a big blunder when he should have spent more time trying to get the Nottingham miners to come out on strike. With out Nottingham miners strike was doomed
He was right from day one, pity some quislings among the miners sold out, in fact they sold the South Yorkshire miners out to try and save their own jobs, how did that work out?
As a striking Derbyshire miner, the only ones to sell anyone out, came from the Mansfield area of Nottingham. Kent, Durham, Wales, Scotland were all 100% behind strike action. WHAT would have happened if Notts miners had gone on strike, I'm afraid we will never know will we. But don't FORGET there were hundreds of Nott's miners who were on strike (and just like us for a full year). When a group of workers takes on the full force of the state there can only be one winner, NOT the workers. And remember this! during this period of time, Thatcher had huge popularity throught much of the country.
Hi coolerman, I believe Roy Lynk is dead., As a striking miner my next door neighbour was a working deputy, but to be honest we never really had a fall-out. What would have happened if they had have gone on strike I don't know, they would probably have been bought off by Thatcher, or senior management would have done the inspections. Either way the outcome would have still been the same. WHAT NO ONE SAYS IS WE NEVER REALLY HAD FULL BACKING FROM OUR FELLOW WORKERS. We were not only fighting this government we were fighting Murdoch and the right wing media.........@@Coolerman565
From what I recall UK deployed Gladio forces against the miners, which would tally with what Arthur is saying...this is from a Lobster article...David Hart being a key operative in this area. Looking at National Assoc Manufacturers in USA using American Legion to fight back against labor post-new deal and bring in neoliberalism, is an interesting comparison.
Scargill ended up after the miners strike living in an expensive flat apartment central London in the barbican paid for by the NUM ..for years... After the strikers lost in their lives...
There's was a strange puzzle in the history of the Miners' Strike - we know that the collection of scumbags in Westminster/Downing Street imported coal from Poland - and stockpiled it - in an effort to out manoeuvre the Miners/the Union. The puzzle being this ---- The export of Polish coal occurred BEFORE the USSR fell apart. We might presume that Moscow (which supported the Miners) would find this objectionable; so ... did the pertinent agents in Poland manage to send the ships off without Moscow finding out? A little bit of fiddling the books, at the dockyards, perhaps?
We can also see now, that the London media output vis. Walesa and co. was wholly dishonest. As was the man himself! Perversely, we can see that Washington attempted to roll out 'Chicago School' economics in Poland, as it had in Chile, among several other states; which was resisted. So we can see a paradox - Polish coal assisted in the roll out of Neo-liberalism in the UK, but the policy set was resisted in Poland.
I wish Arthur Scargill had not brought up Gaza, when this should have been a discussion about coal and its future. They really are two separate issues, huge as they both are.
@@stephenroche5107 I doubt he's that thin skinned,Stephen! It was an affectionate nickname widely used back then (and obvs ironic). The media were (and still are) fond of dubbing Union Leaders as "bosses" and "barons"...so we simply upped the ante!
I was 15 during the '84 strike - my father owned a business in Wigan and one day drove me down the road to see the picket lines at Bikershaw mine and then another near St.Helens, saying "take a good look - you'll never see the like of this again". He did not agree with the strike, but gave them £20 from the window of his executive car, as said they were very likely starving. During that time a friend was robbed and the Poice gave us a lift home - they were boasting of all the overtime they were earning and the skulls they'd cracked and great rumpases they had all over the north. Up to that point, I was ambivalent towards the strike.... but this got me thinking. I did not agree wth Scargills politics, but slowly came to believe it was a stich-up job by the Government to destroy the NUM and shut all the mines. The constant assassination of Scargills character , with lies of fraud and slander, when in fact it was just keeping the supplies into the soup kitchens rolling, just confirmed it in my mind. Tragedy - we all lost. The Yorkshire & South Wales coalfields and communities devastated for nothing, and worse, the madness of hundreds of year's worth of coal stuck underground doing nowt - it could all be feeding clean-burn technology.
So how's it been going for the last 40 years, Arfur? If you'd had your way, we'd all be eating coal, but you failed. Lost the comb-over and the red hat I see. Our son, now 43, is still undergoing counselling after finding that he shares the same birthday with you. Can we send you the bill, after all as past El Presidente of the NUM, you must be well heeled and living in a union funded des-res?
Think what could have been achieved if social media had been around in 1984. Must say the young guy who spoke at the end was inspirational as well as the great Arthur. Great video.
I hope Arthur pays you back from the millions he received from two foreign governments. These payments were sent solely for the Miners Welfare Fund, which Arthur kept for himself.
Bless you King Arthur !!! My grandad did 30 years on nights at Bullcroft col.iery God bless his soul,it was pick and shovel back the n,im 69 now and remember the lads on strike,theey had nothing,the num wanted to help but thatcher froze their bank accounts ,,,,she wanted my mam to bo hungry!the time to stand up for all injustices is now everybody,
I have never had so much hatred in my heart for another man like I have Arthur the snake scargil. While miners was not getting a penny losing there houses starving and freezing etc then you had Arthur receiving bundles of blood money from Libya that should of been for the minors this rat was paying his own debts off. Both sides of my family suffered at the hands of this man aswel as my mother almost losing me from the stress!!
Trouble is that he was half of the problem. He's not in poverty now is he? Because of his squabbling with Thatcher the mining industry is all but gone albeit that the green religion has now taken over in politics. He was as much of the cause as was Thatcher in the industries demise.
Fantastic to see Arthur looking so good. A hero for the working class i remember the strik very well,and the collection buckets been passed around the pubs for the miner's in North London pubs. And many years later I had the privilege to attend his talk regarding the strike in Waterford Ireland. And even all thoes decades after you could feel the emotion within the hall, proudly I have a picture that was talking with the great man that night hanging in my home with pride. Long may u live Arthur.
From Terence Wise...........I remember. I remember. The heroism of the Miners and the destruction of of Britain that the Tories inflicted.Thatcher was nothing more than an ignorant bigot. Arthur Scargill has my respect.
I'm from a Doncaster pit village where the police ran riot. The military were definitely involved. Mixed feelings...why?...because there should have been a national ballot. My family and friends who were miners were saved from dying premature deaths due to pneumoniconiosis. Thatcher did nothing to help the communities she closed down.
King Arthur did return indeed. His words and deeds and indeed honour will not be forgotten. I was at secondary school. I saw the turmoil of the TUC striked and the way it was for jobless people. These miners worked heroically for 2 industrial revolutions of lineage straight through the empire building days when these warriors of the pits strove to rise to every challenge their employers asked. It was all a big ask. These warriors of honour wete used to a fight. This is why the shackles of government authority-religion must be loosed now. The game of divide and conquer is still being played out. Thank you to the miners. I was only a teenager when this unfolded. I remember it well, though. I remember how important it was to be on the right side, too. There will be a humanity with a higher consciousness in this realm someday, and the miners will be held in high regard, and their children will be taught to never allow government-authority-religion to become all poeerful demigogs ever again.
I did want to thank the organiser's i speak to gary i think , the gentleman who did the announcement's and introduced the speaker's , We travelled with friend's ex miner's from Bersham and north wales and were so pleased with the warm welcome ! And as the son of a miner was so , pleased to hear these people speaking , and continuing a fight for working class people to try to maintain and improve term's and working condition's , it is a diffiult time , I had the honour of shaking mr scargill's hand as he left the meeting at the Dodworth club , And i hope one day to return to helo , to some of the people who we met that day , thank's to the organiser's great job ,👏👍
Thank god that scargill is no longer in power, he still carn’t help himself, talking about things that does not concern him, in respect of Gaza, he mentions nothing about the 1200 innocent woman and children who was raped and then set on fire, beheaded in front of their parents, there is no wonder that the N.u.m sacked him !
It’s lovely to see Arthur Scargill looking well & still has spirit to fight for justice despite the negative media coverage as usual, some things never change!!!! Why Thatcher has been eulogised is disgusting 🤮 She was & will always be the downfall of so many communities & the rise of inequality 🇵🇸🙏🕯️
The UK has 300 years of coal reserves at 1980s rate of use and were coal to receive the same subsidies as nuclear power and renewables then people could have been paid to use electricity and natural gas made from coal.
All lost now. They concreted over the mines and built retail parks and housing estates on them. Be impossible to access the coal seems at economical points now. T0ry b@stards have a lot to answer for.
I believe there is more
yearning for the black fogs, are you? miss the black lung and poisoned water, do you?
@@thehellyousay Technology exists for mining extraction, transportation, storage and processing to be greatly automated with risks to humans minimised.
@@thehellyousayGeoengineering Watch has information about chemtrails containing barium, strontium, aluminium nanofibres being sprayed in the skies worldwide day and night.
Always admired him
Bless you sir
Thank you for your support for the people of Palestine
You are the man of the people❤
WTF has Palestine got to do with a Union leader?
@@denzel270you really are a complete bollix!!!!
@@denzel270it's called being a decent human being with feelings
@@earth_sunlove how about the innocent people and children of Israel who have died / injured in random rocket attacks across the border. Convenient forgotten that ?
He says we were just about to win, when the strike was called off. He obviously still remains delusional after all these years.
Thank you for remembering our oppressed loved ones
Great to see Arthur, the struggle continues.
Does it?
@@lackof548 it so does
Arthur Scargill has outlived Thatcher by many years. Time for Britain to find its backbone
What a stupid statement. She was born 13 years before him and was older than he is now when she died. I don’t get your point.
@@makeithappen1952 point is..she is long dead and he is still alive..thats the point
you must love thatcher so sad @@makeithappen1952
Thatcher died at the age of 88. Scargill at 86 may or may not live to a greater age and wtf cares if he does. The interesting difference between these two was that Thatcher believed in democracy and Scargill believes in mob rule
@@carolberry2239 really..?
Unity is strength.
Respect.
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fishy rishy should be made to watch this video and shown that the sentiment over gaza and the feeling of westminster's failure, is not exclusive to the muslim community
that is why rochdale voted for george galloway and david tully
Making anyone watch this is beyond heartless. No matter how much you hate poor Mr Fishy Soonak you surely must be devoid of all humanity if you would subject even your worst enemy to this crap
didn't help the miners though did it ?
@@HiddenCreaturesHQminers are still alive today. The right wing agenda was to defeat the miners but they are not defeated
@@kwanchan6745 A Muslim like Galloway was always going to win in Rochdale.
Remember it well.
Good to see Arthur.
✊🏻✊🏽✊✊🏿.
I collected for the miners in Liverpool. I was 24. People spat on us but many many more supported and gave generosity.
Respect to you Eileen I’m sure your efforts and support would have been greatly appreciated ✊✊🏿✊🏽
Me too Eileen, in the South! Remember it well. We too had a lot of abuse, but huge support too
As a striking Derbyshire miner, your efforts will never be forgotten. Without you, and the GOOD people of Britain and throughout the world we couldn't have stayed out as long as we did. I THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. ✌✌........
Liverpool funded IRA terrorism, yet expected sympathy for the drunk fans.
@@paulbird3235 Scargill should have negotiated after the autumn of 1984 when it was obvious to everyone that his illegal strike had failed.
Absolutely correct about Saltley in 1972 Arthur I was there when we were joined by the factory workers and that resulted in the plant being closed Respect to Arthur Scargill history is proving him to be correct in everything he predicted at that time Respect to every striking miner and their families who stood their ground in the 1984 strike ✊✊🏿✊🏽
@@My0wnLyingFiveEyes Respect to you brother ✊✊🏿✊🏽
Respect to you sir , I was one of the strikers that had a year without pay & looked on in horror at how thatcher deployed the police at Orgreave with the sole intention to physically assault the striking miners, don’t get me wrong the miners retaliated out of self defence but I was there & the press coverage was similar to Hillsboro, disgusting , still a Scargill man to this day ! It’s amazing how the wealthy elite printed press circle their wagons when someone like Scargill & Corbyn get anywhere near power ! Thankyou !
@@marksykes5434 Ultimate respect to you Mark. Generations of us producing coal to meet the energy requirements of the nation and treated appalling badly by the Thatcherite ruling class Shame on them !!!! ✊✊🏿✊🏽
@@barrywest2170 Bozo was even recently recorded as saying that they destroyed the coal industry because they knew it was bad for the environment ! Thanks Barry 👍✊🏻
@Paxanglorum I started work in the mining industry in 1958 Any pit closures during the Wilson government periods of government were due older colliery coal seams being worked out or to unsafe to mine. Any workers affected by a pit closure were always found alternative employment at another colliery In my particular case in 1963 when the old pit closed we were re employed at at brand new colliery This was very different to the butchering of the industry which happened during the Thatcher government which lead to the wholesale destruction and devastation of mining communities I hope this will help you to understand what actually happened and what the 1984 strike was all about ✊✊🏿✊🏽
I was delighted, whippet on lap, to sit, on the Waterloo/Yorkshire train and grabbed the free seat next to Arthur. As each train staffer as they passed, paid respect and solidarity. Sitting across from Arthur was a smart, thirty-ish senior management staffer who wanted to challenge strikers . What impressed me was how he was able to spend, in those days of war, his time, patience and sincere explanations of the strikes and how Thatcher would ruin of the nation. Much to my chagrin I only got to say a few words of solidarity on leaving the train.
Scargill is still in surprisingly good form considering he is 86 years old.
He's still as anti-Semitic as ever.
Well , he's against the Genocide , so yes , that makes one Anti Semitic doesn't it ?
@@MadderMel Scargill was always extremely anti-Semitic, like McGahey.
But has he got his own teeth?
A great hero of the working class.
Thank you. The legend speaks.
Now let’s get Corbyn to join Galloway. Your country needs you, Sir.
Galloway is anti abortion anti Europe Racist transphobic etc Corby won't support him neither will I and many others
We certainly don’t need these two anti U.K. looney lefties mate. What are you smoking ?
That would involve St JC growing a backbone...
Scargill. Much maligned, much vilified by the establishment. But much loved by his people. God bless.
Was at home on Christmas day when the press called whilst the pickets lines were still being manned.
@denzel270 he was only one man and it was a different time back then , he did all he could and he tried hard for all Brit workers .
Even before the strike, he was loved by Yorkshire miners for his role in winning compensation for miners who drowned in the Lofthouse colliery disaster. NCB claimed it was unreasonable for them to be expected to know there was an old flooded pitt close to the new pit. Arthur went to the University of Leeds archives and found documents detailing the old pit showing if the NCB had done due diligence they would have know the location of the old pit. Those miners died horrific deaths drowning in the dark underground. And this document won the court case for their families. People don’t forget stuff like that.
In the 1984-5 strike we were all miligned it was part of Thatchers plan "the enemy within" remember?. With the help of Murdoch and the right-wing media, she managed to keep a large part of the country "on-side". Without that support she would have failed.
These people are the Salt of t'Earth. Arthur Scargill speaks for all decent men and women as he has done for decades. You can see he never had a price. There are a fair few men and women like him in UK. These should be the country's true leaders.
No, he never had a price. He earnt more than enough as a Union leader (and parasite)
@denzel270. Don’t know if this is true as it’s heresay. Apparently, , the NUM paid for Mr. Scargill’s flat in The Barbican, City of London while he was NUM leader. And a hairdresser went to his home every morning before Mr. Scargill made national TV and public appearances to fix his hair. All the while, the striking miners were living on the breadline. And - after his “retirement” Mr. Scargill expected the seriously depleted NUM to fund his private car and other associated Union “expenses”. Wouldn’t surprise me in the least if it was true. Smacks of “Pull up the ladder, cos’ I’m alright Jack!” Stay safe and well.
@@denzel270Agreed, just like Red Robbo at Longbridge. These union leaders used their members as cannot fodder to further their ideology whilst skimming a nice living off the member’s dues. Has Scargill still got tie NUM flat in London?
Yes ...speaks for decent men a women. And the appalling corruption we see today originates from her and her conservative party and their policies
@@denzel270people like you have destroyed Britain. Tell me are you proud of your legacy? Britain will never be an industrial world power again because of your lot. Well done…I’m sure the Chinese, Indians, Germans, Americans are very happy with you.
Thank you for publishing. What a way to treat people (a community) that worked in terrible conditions. Shame on the media. Shame on Government parties and MPs. The same thing with GAZA. Well said Arthur. Thank you and greetings to you all.
great man mr scargill
The man who used thousands of pounds of NUM money as if it was his own, with a £34000 per year flat in London while Miners and their families went hungry and cold. Complete Rat.
Fair brought a tear to my eye that, and I was barely a teenager when it was all going on, but I knew I was 'on his side' even though I wasn't entirely sure what that was! Years later my Mum casually told me she was in the YCL in Leeds in the fifties or early sixties and used to be going out with Arthur's best mate so he'd been round for Sunday tea a couple of times. I was really pleased about that! So good to see him again, and to see the respect he still gets from the people that matter to him.
Should have had a National ballot.
He made some big errors but his analysis of the goals of the establishment to destroy the miners was the key to destroying all workers rights and were still paying for that today
Usual diatribe of lies, fact more pits were closed under Labour than the Tories, fact the pits would still be dead by now no matter which government were in power with advent of diesel powered trains, gas and electric central heating, power stations generating by using natural gas, wind and solar farms, and the demise of the steel industry due to steel being cheaper to import there was no demand for coal, as for Scargill how the hell he has the nerve to show his face to the miners after he stole from them
maybe he made some mistakes I don't know but i'll tell you this I would never trust a man who did not make mistakes--the only leftists who do not make mistakes are the ones who sit around in pure trotskyite or ml groups and spout all the "correct" answers a do nothing --if you fight you will make mistakes if you don't fight you are useless
Thank you again for publishing Arthur Scargill's speech Crispin. My wife and I supported the 1984/85 strike with food and money. Listening to Arthur today, I've learnt a couple of things I never knew at the time. Carry on as long as you can Arthur.
When he brought coach loads of miners down to London for the Grunwick picket line back in 1977, stepped off the bus and and was arrested in about 2 seconds ; they were scared of him long before Thatcher 😂. Top boy, Arthur and great to hear him once again. Respect to the sister who gave the introduction, remembering the smells. I remember the sounds of plastic buckets being rattled, full of coins as funds were collected outside all the tube stations. We gave but not enough😢
Shared. Thank you.
God bless you King Arthur.
Nothing else to do now he's been kicked out of his fancy Barbican flat in Central London.
kicked upper us say it fast little fascist boy
Working class legends ❤
You are the greatest Arthur, God bless you and preserve you! The future will always be in the hands of working men and women.
Spot on
well said!!
Arthur Scargill HERO
Why
I was 15 in 1983 and I remember every night my late parents watching the news and seeing the brave mining communities fighting to save the pits. Every night at tea time we as a family were glued to the TV. My dad cleared factories with scrap iron and metal and my parents never claimed a penny of support from the state only family allowance, now known as child benefit. Due to the situation with the steel works the price per ton of scrap iron and metal went down and my parents were struggling. They were worried but they understood the reasons. We watched as community kitchens opened to feed the miners and their families, the cooking being done by the miners wives ect. I remember mum and dad sending £10 to help the miners cause, they didn't have much coming in at the time but like they said, we do have food. Thatcher and her Tory government were the start of the break up of families and the working class communities of Britain. Look at what is going on now with the Tory party in power, yet again the working class are suffering. This New Labour lot are no better, how can they call themselves socialists when they are just as bad as the Tories. I struggle who to vote for. To see Arthur Scargill was amazing and brought back many memories from being a young girl. Kind regards Angeline ❤️ xx
News nowadays is a state controlled machine
I was a similar age and my dad was on strike for the duration with the vast majority of the Kent coalfield. I remember the hardship but it gives me a warm glow all these years later to think of families out there like yours. We pretty much thought we and the other communities were on our own, the "enemy within" as the media portrayed us. Thank you.
@@hackedoff736 Things were so hard for all you mining families and so unfair. Thatcher has destroyed so many families, communities and ways of life. It was hard for us to see but much harder for you to live it day in day out. Kind regards Angeline ❤️ xx
Arthur Scargill is a legend and an honest man.
Millionaire legend thats the truth
I watched with donkeydave best of Britain ❤
Thanks for this video, Crispin, and for giving us the chance to hear Arthur Scargill's heartfelt words at the 40th anniversary of the Miners' Strike and their valiant struggles against Thatcher's draconian policies aimed at the working class and the Trade Union movement: it was a speech full of spirit and wit - he's lost none of his fire or determination. Very heartened to hear his support for the Palestinian people: forever in solidarity.
Good to see Arthur is still a Marxist. ❤ Marx is a philosophy like no other 🟥
Where’s the money?
I remember Libya donating to the miners, he paid £ 29.000 off his bridging loan plus £ 25.000 towards his house, he only gave £ 10. 000 to the Nottinghamshire miners, check it out. Greed
Nice try, looks like you should have read that the claims about paying off the mortgage were false though.
"The editor of the Daily Mirror at the time, Roy Greenslade, wrote an article in The Guardian in May 2002 to apologise to Scargill for the false claims about paying off the mortgage and for putting too much trust in Roger Windsor, who at the time had still not repaid the £29,500 that he had taken from the Miners' Welfare Fund and that the Lightman Report had asked that he repay."
Long life and best wishes Arthur for standing up for the first British victims of Neoliberal capitalism when I was just 3. If a nation had have listened and stood with the miners in overwhelming numbers, my life would have been better for it.
Well said. I doubt many now grasp the pivotal role the Miners played in the
UK economy then, and why this was essential for their collective destruction,
for the scumbags in Westminster/Downing Street/The City.
He didn't stand with them though did he? He was at home with his family enjoying Christmas while they were out on the picket lines
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I grew up in a mining town. Racist homophobic and misogynistic. Up the Miners.
Following this fool was pointless. If only hindsite wasnt an afterthought.
Like most union leaders ,scargill was never short of money when times were hard..
Thatcher's boot boys were infamous.
It was at that time i lost all respect for the police who allowed themselves to become a gang of thugs that would have been at home in a South American fascist dictatorship, not one of those scumbags was ever prosecuted for lying on oath about Orgreave.
We knew then what the police and military were all about, heroes my arse, nothing but hired thugs and killers, the first line of defence against the establishment.
Breaking the solidarity of the workers followed by the sell off of social housing destroyed britains communities, we've been divided ever since.
Fact is she won a Landslide Election after defeating Scargill. He maybe 86 but Castro was old when he went. Will be Interesting to see the future of Cuba.
There were actual boot boys on the mining estate I grow up on. Paki Bashers they called themselves.
The strike never had any chance of success.
Over a fifth of miners continued to work from the very beginning.
This is the peoples history, I remember the brutal clashes, Thatcher was a monster but you never here that 😢
He started a strike without a meaningful ballot of members and in March after Thatcher had been stockpiling coal. You have to hand it to him, Arthur was a master tactician.
Yes, the overtime ban was working, and stocks were coming down but nowhere near the numbers required= calling a strike without a ballot at the start of a long summer was suicidal. It was the Yorkshire miners who elected him, and they had the power to unelect him- he didn't have the ability to reason with or stand up to them. Had the strike been organised properly it could have succeeded, unfortunately it was a mess from day one.
To true on that one sir you hit the nail on the head commie dictators they all where that lennin hat dont they corbin weres one as well that all you need to know champagne commies@@ElJay2412
Good to hear young people supporting. Scargill has faith, but the youth bring hope.
They're too young to remember the damage Scargill and Unions did to our country and economy in the 70's. They made us the poor man of Europe.
King of West Yorkshier
I didn’t understand the strike, mum was a Tory and believed the miners were trying to bring down the country. She read the daily mail and believed all that. But 40yrs ago we had an nhs, free schools, benefits affordable housing. All gone now. Vote green Rishi and Starmer aren’t going to make our lives better. Barb
Vote green? 🤣😂
We all hate the Tories but beware Labour or why do you think the establishment considers Starmer a safe bet ?
Arthur made a big blunder when he should have spent more time trying to get the Nottingham miners to come out on strike. With out Nottingham miners strike was doomed
Over a fifth of miners continued working from the very beginning.
It has never been confirmed there were troops.
Sorry Arthur, was surprised to hear that you are still alive 😅
Living legend. Fills my heart to hear him. We shall overcome.
A leg end in his own lunchtime
So, how's that going? Whom do you want to overcome and when will it happen?
@@jonathan9wood More like his own imagination, or just before coffee time. Sorry, mis read your post, I was sure you said leg end, not bell end.
Bless your soul 😅
Arthur Scargill is a TRUE British hero. What a great man.
Yes, the miners certainly walked into history in 1984-85 ...
He was right from day one, pity some quislings among the miners sold out, in fact they sold the South Yorkshire miners out to try and save their own jobs, how did that work out?
As a striking Derbyshire miner, the only ones to sell anyone out, came from the Mansfield area of Nottingham. Kent, Durham, Wales, Scotland were all 100% behind strike action. WHAT would have happened if Notts miners had gone on strike, I'm afraid we will never know will we. But don't FORGET there were hundreds of Nott's miners who were on strike (and just like us for a full year). When a group of workers takes on the full force of the state there can only be one winner, NOT the workers. And remember this! during this period of time, Thatcher had huge popularity throught much of the country.
Yes wonder what happened to the missing Roy link? also i believe if the Deputies had come out it could have been game over.
Hi coolerman, I believe Roy Lynk is dead., As a striking miner my next door neighbour was a working deputy, but to be honest we never really had a fall-out. What would have happened if they had have gone on strike I don't know, they would probably have been bought off by Thatcher, or senior management would have done the inspections. Either way the outcome would have still been the same. WHAT NO ONE SAYS IS WE NEVER REALLY HAD FULL BACKING FROM OUR FELLOW WORKERS. We were not only fighting this government we were fighting Murdoch and the right wing media.........@@Coolerman565
There were no soldiers.
I was a young 16 out collecting monies in Leeds for the Miners Strike 84/85 Coal not Dole
From what I recall UK deployed Gladio forces against the miners, which would tally with what Arthur is saying...this is from a Lobster article...David Hart being a key operative in this area. Looking at National Assoc Manufacturers in USA using American Legion to fight back against labor post-new deal and bring in neoliberalism, is an interesting comparison.
Scargill ended up after the miners strike living in an expensive flat apartment central London in the barbican paid for by the NUM ..for years...
After the strikers lost in their lives...
And your point
There's was a strange puzzle in the history of the Miners' Strike -
we know that the collection of scumbags in Westminster/Downing Street
imported coal from Poland - and stockpiled it - in an effort to out manoeuvre
the Miners/the Union.
The puzzle being this ----
The export of Polish coal occurred BEFORE the USSR fell apart.
We might presume that Moscow (which supported the Miners)
would find this objectionable;
so ... did the pertinent agents in Poland manage to send the ships off
without Moscow finding out?
A little bit of fiddling the books, at the dockyards, perhaps?
We can also see now, that the London media output
vis. Walesa and co. was wholly dishonest. As was the man himself!
Perversely, we can see that Washington attempted to
roll out 'Chicago School' economics in Poland,
as it had in Chile, among several other states; which was
resisted.
So we can see a paradox - Polish coal assisted in the roll out of
Neo-liberalism in the UK, but the policy set was resisted in Poland.
Thatcher is dead but Arthur is still alive. And Arthur is still right.
I wish Arthur Scargill had not brought up Gaza, when this should have been a discussion about coal and its future. They really are two separate issues, huge as they both are.
He has always been an anti-Semite.
no they are not
oh King Arthur, it is a rare treat to see and hear you again!You're looking and sounding mighty as usual!! Well said.
Please do not call him king he would find that offensive
@@stephenroche5107 I doubt he's that thin skinned,Stephen! It was an affectionate nickname widely used back then (and obvs ironic). The media were (and still are) fond of dubbing Union Leaders as "bosses" and "barons"...so we simply upped the ante!
Ask any Derbyshire miner, AS shouldve called a ballot.. Simples.
I was 15 during the '84 strike - my father owned a business in Wigan and one day drove me down the road to see the picket lines at Bikershaw mine and then another near St.Helens, saying "take a good look - you'll never see the like of this again". He did not agree with the strike, but gave them £20 from the window of his executive car, as said they were very likely starving. During that time a friend was robbed and the Poice gave us a lift home - they were boasting of all the overtime they were earning and the skulls they'd cracked and great rumpases they had all over the north. Up to that point, I was ambivalent towards the strike.... but this got me thinking. I did not agree wth Scargills politics, but slowly came to believe it was a stich-up job by the Government to destroy the NUM and shut all the mines. The constant assassination of Scargills character , with lies of fraud and slander, when in fact it was just keeping the supplies into the soup kitchens rolling, just confirmed it in my mind. Tragedy - we all lost. The Yorkshire & South Wales coalfields and communities devastated for nothing, and worse, the madness of hundreds of year's worth of coal stuck underground doing nowt - it could all be feeding clean-burn technology.
The press just told the truth about Scargill.
British coal was too pollutive and dificult to extract.
So how's it been going for the last 40 years, Arfur? If you'd had your way, we'd all be eating coal, but you failed. Lost the comb-over and the red hat I see. Our son, now 43, is still undergoing counselling after finding that he shares the same birthday with you. Can we send you the bill, after all as past El Presidente of the NUM, you must be well heeled and living in a union funded des-res?
and now you arre eating out of garbage cans
All of my respect goes to these wonderful people. A different breed of people than today.
Bless you Arthur.
Think what could have been achieved if social media had been around in 1984. Must say the young guy who spoke at the end was inspirational as well as the great Arthur. Great video.
Arthur was right, but the establishment crushed them. This was the real beginning of the end, when the police turned rogue!
I hope Arthur pays you back from the millions he received from two foreign governments. These payments were sent solely for the Miners Welfare Fund, which Arthur kept for himself.
King Arthur x God Bless the Miners
Arthur Scargill a real working class Hero 🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟
Bless you King Arthur !!! My grandad did 30 years on nights at Bullcroft col.iery God bless his soul,it was pick and shovel back the n,im 69 now and remember the lads on strike,theey had nothing,the num wanted to help but thatcher froze their bank accounts ,,,,she wanted my mam to bo hungry!the time to stand up for all injustices is now everybody,
I have never had so much hatred in my heart for another man like I have Arthur the snake scargil. While miners was not getting a penny losing there houses starving and freezing etc then you had Arthur receiving bundles of blood money from Libya that should of been for the minors this rat was paying his own debts off. Both sides of my family suffered at the hands of this man aswel as my mother almost losing me from the stress!!
Its all somebody else's fault, just like the SNP.
a very great man, I collected in America it was an honor
Trouble is that he was half of the problem. He's not in poverty now is he? Because of his squabbling with Thatcher the mining industry is all but gone albeit that the green religion has now taken over in politics. He was as much of the cause as was Thatcher in the industries demise.
True hero
The only reason the miners lost was the fact that the rest of the working class abandoned them.
To busy buying their council houses
I could have listened to Arthur Scargill for hours. Wish he lived next door. I want to know so many more of the details he gave about 1984.
Fantastic to see Arthur looking so good. A hero for the working class i remember the strik very well,and the collection buckets been passed around the pubs for the miner's in North London pubs. And many years later I had the privilege to attend his talk regarding the strike in Waterford Ireland. And even all thoes decades after you could feel the emotion within the hall, proudly I have a picture that was talking with the great man that night hanging in my home with pride. Long may u live Arthur.
Arthur i was a miner on strike but while nottinghamshire worked we were always going to be defeated- it should have been everyone or no one
A gaggle of bitter old men and guess what? Its raining.
Oh living the dream!
Thatcher bears a lot of responsibility for the state this country is in today!
From Terence Wise...........I remember. I remember. The heroism of the Miners and the destruction of of Britain that the Tories inflicted.Thatcher was nothing more than an ignorant bigot. Arthur Scargill has my respect.
Wow, still going, this guy!
There's only one King Arthur and he doesn't live in Camelot!
I'm from a Doncaster pit village where the police ran riot. The military were definitely involved. Mixed feelings...why?...because there should have been a national ballot. My family and friends who were miners were saved from dying premature deaths due to pneumoniconiosis. Thatcher did nothing to help the communities she closed down.
Scargill? Straight? Come on!! He led a political strike not a strike for miners' benefit.
Scargill was right!!
A working class hero ❤
Still a brilliant orator
What about Hamas
King Arthur did return indeed. His words and deeds and indeed honour will not be forgotten. I was at secondary school. I saw the turmoil of the TUC striked and the way it was for jobless people. These miners worked heroically for 2 industrial revolutions of lineage straight through the empire building days when these warriors of the pits strove to rise to every challenge their employers asked. It was all a big ask. These warriors of honour wete used to a fight. This is why the shackles of government authority-religion must be loosed now. The game of divide and conquer is still being played out. Thank you to the miners. I was only a teenager when this unfolded. I remember it well, though. I remember how important it was to be on the right side, too. There will be a humanity with a higher consciousness in this realm someday, and the miners will be held in high regard, and their children will be taught to never allow government-authority-religion to become all poeerful demigogs ever again.
The traitor Churchill had signed the empire away in 1941.
Dear dear sir Arthur Thank you so very much sir for you and and your kin have given me the same approach today...(50 now!)
💯❤💯✊ Arthur Sacrgill 💯❤💯✊
I did want to thank the organiser's i speak to gary i think , the gentleman who did the announcement's and introduced the speaker's ,
We travelled with friend's ex miner's from Bersham and north wales and were so pleased with the warm welcome !
And as the son of a miner was so , pleased to hear these people speaking , and continuing a fight for working class people to try to maintain and improve term's and working condition's , it is a diffiult time ,
I had the honour of shaking mr scargill's hand as he left the meeting at the Dodworth club ,
And i hope one day to return to helo , to some of the people who we met that day , thank's to the organiser's great job ,👏👍
Thank god that scargill is no longer in power, he still carn’t help himself, talking about things that does not concern him, in respect of Gaza, he mentions nothing about the 1200 innocent woman and children who was raped and then set on fire, beheaded in front of their parents, there is no wonder that the N.u.m sacked him !
He was always a huge anti-Semite like McGahey.
Good man
The LGBTQI+ community helped the miners🌈
The "perverts for the pits" lgbg support of the miner's strike is being celebrated in May.
It’s lovely to see Arthur Scargill looking well & still has spirit to fight for justice despite the negative media coverage as usual, some things never change!!!!
Why Thatcher has been eulogised is disgusting 🤮
She was & will always be the downfall of so many communities & the rise of inequality 🇵🇸🙏🕯️
God bless you, brother