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 ...