Arthur Scargill's Leadership
An indication of the NUM's membership decline is that, whereas at the time of the strike it had nearly 300,000 members, that figure is now down to about 1,500.
Francis Beckett, co-author of Marching to the Fault Line, the most recent history of the dispute, said:
"Arthur Scargill took a proud and powerful trade union, and, by sheer hubris and a failure to think through what he was doing, turned it into a shadow of its former self; he created sectarianism and gave rise to a union that was so divided that it started turning in on itself."
Neither Scargill nor the union were (sic) available for comment.
The quotes above are from 'The Grauniad,' hardly a publication of the Right Wing!
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