FORMER miners’ leader Arthur Scargill said the trade union movement today can learn from the actions of the miners in their 1984 strike against pit closures. The strike began 40 years ago on March 6, ...

But a group of Scargill devotees couldn't bear the thought of that happening, and formed a new charitable trust, the Scargill Movement. An interest-free loan was obtained from Lee Abbey – a similar ...

Anne Scargill, the activist and campaigner who co-founded the national Women Against Pit Closures movement amid mass shutdowns in the 1980s, has died aged 83. Ms Scargill had been living with dementia ...

In the 2001 British general election, the Socialist Labour Party (SLP) polled 57,288 votes. As its name suggests, it stood on a platform which advanced the party as the continuator of old-style Labour ...

Arthur Scargill, the former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), addressed a rally Saturday outside Sheffield railway station in support of the railworkers’ strike. The remarks made by ...