Arthur scargill

[crazy comie]

why the hell didn't they have a ballot if they had lost a ballot it would of ment they would lose and if they one it they would have been more likly to win.

[Scottish_Militant]

http://www.marxist.com/Europe/britain_stri...ike_review.html (http://www.marxist.com/Europe/britain_strike_review.html)

"We are by no means uncritical of the tactics pursued by Arthur Scargill in this strike. Undoubtedly, certain errors were made, which had a negative effect on the outcome. In particular, the refusal to hold a national ballot was a serious blunder. If the NUM had held a ballot and campaigned for a strike, they would have got an overwhelming endorsement. It is highly unlikely that areas that voted against strike action would have broken the strike, as happened in Nottingham. The split in the miners' ranks undermined the strike from the beginning and was its Achilles' heel.

But the tactical mistakes made by the NUM leadership do not alter the fact that the strike itself was a hundred percent justified. The Tories merely used the split in the NUM for their own cynical purposes. They had no interest in the Nottingham miners, any more than any other section of the miners. The programme presents the Nottingham miners as the victims, but in fact, if anyone was duped and cynically used, it was them.

The miners' strike was not an aggressive act by the NUM, nor was it part of any plot to overthrow capitalism, as the documentary repeatedly implies. As a matter of fact, if the makers of the documentary had paid the slightest attention to the facts, they would know that the miners' strike was deliberately provoked by Thatcher. It was a naked act of class aggression, deliberately worked out by the Tories with the cold cruelty that has always characterised the British ruling class."

[crazy comie]

does any one know how many would have voted for a strike in a national ballot,

[Kez]

the strike would have been voted in, if they held a ballot. That is if Scartgill had used propaganda to explain why they shud strike

[crazy comie]

okay thanks for that.