Socialist Outlook

Socialist Viewpoint, International, Socialist Outlook and their supplements, 1984–2002

Scargill: Maxwell's vendetta

Socialist Outlook no. 23, April 1990 · pp 4-5 · 381 words

Maxwell's vendetta against Scargill support to the Pergamon 23, Scargill against: labour movement. Thatcher using the full might of unlimited millions of taxpayers* gill would have been more than justified in taking cash from the USSR, Libya or anywhere else to anyhting other than a desire to tive, in calling for an independent inquiry into the allegations, to decide it should be conducted by the Haldane Society whiose most Mills, is also subject of Mirror al- is clear: with the police and bourgeois law, and money to crush the NUM, Scar- in on NUM assels, and could have seized the bouses they were in. Nor is there any proof that any of the actions were motivated by haps foolish of the NUM Execu- In the light of this, it was per prominent member, Derek Platts keep the union functioning- help sustain the strikers. Scargill or Heathfield benefitted leged dealings, which took place af a sharp point of the strike, when sequestrators were homing There is no evidence that doing business on the new Notts he is also facing legal action to retrice £29,000 he was lent by the NUM when it relocated from Scargill's former chauffeur, Jim Parker, who left his joh and cooperated with the Mirror has Libyan cash was used to pay off Scargill's mortgage and make personally from any of the al- tion, he is a man with a grudge - Scargill Inst October called in South Yorkshire police to inves ligate his links with a company Windsor now lives in France: Toans to Heathfield and Windsor. also added allegations area NUM bead office. London to Bamsicy. allegations over the handling of "witness was Roger tums out to have been paid a fat money by Scargill and seven months, bave had a single mission assigned to them by their boss, union- Money has been no object in the smear cumpaign, which bore fruit in the recent five-day series in the Mirror. It raised a series of NUM General Secretary Peter Heathfiold during the 19845 Windsor, i former non eleuted employce who rose to Chief Ex- ecutive Officer of the NUM. He retainer hy the Mirror, in addi- Five highly-paid Daily Mirror mine countries on expenses travelling Maxwell: 'ger Scargill". busting millionaire journalists, miners' strike. Page 2

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