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'''Arthur Scargill''' (born January 11, 1938) is a British [[Stalinism|neo-Stalinist]], trade unionist and former president of the National Union of Mineworkers (1982-2002) who currently leads the [[Socialist Labour Party]], for whom he is a failed parliamentary candidate in the 1997 and 2001 UK general elections.
'''Arthur Scargill''' (born January 11, 1938) is a British [[Stalinism|neo-Stalinist]], trade unionist and former president of the National Union of Mineworkers (1982-2002) who currently leads the [[Socialist Labour Party]], for whom he is a failed parliamentary candidate in the 1997 and 2001 UK general elections.
== Nicknames ==
Scargill and others within the NUM leadership were referred to in the 1980s by Conservative UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher as "the enemy within". Some leftists falsely claim that this epithet was used to describe miners themselves.<ref>[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3g6a7LJSXJcJ:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/charlesmoore/5039575/The-miners-strike-was-not-a-civil-war-whatever-Arthur-Scargill-hoped.html&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0 The miners' strike was not a civil war, whatever Arthur Scargill hoped]</ref>
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