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I know that we can produce a society where man will cease to
simply go to work and have a little leisure, but will release
his latent talent and ability and begin to produce in the cultural
sense all the things he is capable of: music, poetry, writing,
sculpture, whole works of art that lie dormant simply because
we, as a society, are not able to tap it.
Arthur Scargill |
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Arthur Scargill was born in 1938 and was
leader of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1981
to 2000. He is presently the leader of the Socialist Labour
Party, a political party he founded in 1996.
Arthur Scargill became a miner after leaving school, working
at Woolley Colliery from 1953. He soon became a left-wing
political activist and was a member of the Labour Party 1962-1996.
Renowned as a fiery and effective orator, he bitterly opposed
the industrial policies of Margaret Thatcher’s government,
and rose to national prominence during the 1984-1985 miners’
strike; the end of the strike was followed by a split in the
union. He founded the Socialist Labour Party after criticizing
what he saw as a lurch to the right by the Labour Party.
Arthur Scargill appears at CQAF as a guest of Belfast Trades
Council.
Admission free
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