Black Gold by Jeremy Paxman

Author:Jeremy Paxman [Paxman, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2021-09-01T19:53:49+00:00

As in the strike which drove the final nail into the coffin of the industry, in 1984, the miners had not held a national ballot before the General Strike. On the other hand, they could reasonably claim that it was not they who had prevented coal being mined, but an employers’ lockout.

Trotsky described the General Council of the TUC as an ‘agency of the English bourgeoisie’.17 The credibility of the organisation was terribly damaged, but not, surprisingly, that of the Labour Party. Although it had let down the miners, the party gained seats at the next election. The main lesson for the miners – that you don’t get into a fight with the government, because if it is determined enough, you are bound to lose – had still not been learned by 1984, when the then miners’ leader, Arthur Scargill – a man who rather fancied himself a reincarnation of A. J. Cook – made much the same mistake as the strikers of 1926.

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