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Arthur Scargill Quotes

born 1938 England

Arthur Scargill (born January 11, 1938) is a British trade unionist. He was the President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1981 to 2002 and has served as leader of the Socialist Labour Party, a political party he founded, since 1996.

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My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.

Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.

I am opposed to Solidarity because I believe that it is an anti-socialist organisation which desires the overthrow of a socialist state.

I did not join this Party to have a yuppy-land approach, to run capitalism better than the Tories. I joined this party to change this society and create a socialist alternative.

I read Jack London and The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists. Those were the books that formed my political opinions.

The miners of this country will now have to seriously consider their position and recognise that at some stage they are going to have to stand and fight in defence of our industry, in defence of our jobs and above all to retain a dignity and respect.

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