Arthur Scargill

Latest articles by Arthur Scargill

Congress ‘postponed’

Scargill blames SLP members

Socialist Labour Party and China

An exchange of letters has taken place in the SLP over an article by ‘Don Hoskins’ in Socialist News (September/October), praising the regime in China (see Weekly Worker September 11). Clearly the SLP is riven with deep ideological contradictions. Perhaps China will result in meltdown

Left cooperation forbidden

The following letter was sent by Arthur Scargill to Chris Weller, secretary of the Kent Socialist Alliance

Tackling danger head on

Below we reprint Arthur Scargill’s article in defence of the witch hunt, as it appeared in Socialist News (August 1997)

Scargill: ‘Keep quiet or get out’

Once again Arthur Scargill lays down the law against democracy in the SLP - this time in his reply to Martin Wicks. The comrade had forwarded him partisan suggestions for extending democracy in the SLP. The document he sent was signed by a number of SLP comrades and published in the Weekly Worker (June 12)

More Scargill threats

Correspondence between the SLP’s acting general secretary and Southwark councillor Ian Driver

Message to members from the National Executive Council

Democrat attacked

In the Weekly Worker (May 22) we reported on a conference in Manchester to discuss a campaign for a democratic SLP. The SLP’s candidate in Vauxhall, South London, has come under Scargill’s fire for taking part in this democracy meeting

Democrat deserts the field

‘crackers’

Following the voiding of respected Manchester SLP member John Pearson, Scargill is now turning on his defenders

Supporting two parties

SLP letters

Last week Socialist Labour's NEC received a flood of correspondence from members regarding the democracy of the party

SLP branch under threat

Vauxhall Constituency Socialist Labour Party, already hit by the ‘voiding’ of Barry Biddulph, one of its most active members (see Weekly Worker February 27), appears now to be threatened with closure itself. We reproduce below correspondence between Arthur Scargill and Kirstie Paton, branch secretary of the CSLP

Scargill voids again

As reported in last week’s Weekly Worker, Barry Biddulph, an SLP member in South London, has been ‘voided’ by Arthur Scargill. Below we reprint Scargill’s letter and Barry’s response

Not compatible with democracy

At a branch meeting of Stockport Socialist Labour Party on November 28 1996 followers of the Economic and Philosophical Science Review, led by its founder-editor Roy Bull, passed a ‘motion’ calling for the expulsion of comrade John Pearson, the branch secretary. They alleged he was a member of the CPGB. John Pearson has since been excluded from a branch meeting recently chaired by Phil Griffin, backed by his homophobic and sectarian allies in the EPSR. We publish below the exchange between John Pearson and Arthur Scargill

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