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Arthur Scargill
Leader of the Socialist Labour Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 24 June 1996
Preceded by
Position established
President of the National Union of Mineworkers
In office 1982–2002
Preceded by
Joe Gormley
Succeeded by
Ian Lavery
President of the Yorkshire Area of the National Union of Mineworkers
In office 1974–1981
Preceded by
Sam Bullough
Succeeded by
Jack Taylor
Personal details
Born
(1938-01-11) 11 January 1938 (age 86) Worsbrough Dale, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Political party
Socialist Labour Party (1996–present)
Other political affiliations
Labour Party (1962–1996)
Spouse
Anne Harper
(m. 1961; div. 2001)
Arthur Scargill (born 11 January 1938)[1] is a British trade unionist who was President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1982 to 2002. He is best known for leading the 1984–1985 UK miners' strike, a major event in the history of the British labour movement.
Joining the NUM at the age of 19 in 1957, Scargill was one of its leading activists by the late 1960s. He led an unofficial strike in 1969, and played a key organising role during the strikes of 1972 and 1974, the latter of which played a part in the downfall of Edward Heath's Conservative government.
Thereafter Scargill led the NUM through the 1984–1985 miners' strike. It turned into a confrontation with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in which the miners' union was defeated. Initially a Young Communist League member, then a Labour Party member, Scargill is now leader of the Socialist Labour Party (SLP), founded by him in 1996.
^The Times 10 January 2009, Retrieved 9 January 2010
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