David
Douglass
David Douglass is a Tyneside and Yorkshire political activist and
writer. He is a member of IWW, NUM, Class War and formerly of the
Revolutionary Workers' Party (Trotskyist) and the Socialist Union
(Internationalist) of which he was a leading member .
For 29
years David or Dave (or "Danny The Red", as he is more popularly
known around the mining community of Stainforth and Hatfield) worked
as a coal miner in the coal fields of Durham and South Yorkshire.
Since 1979 he has been the elected NUM Branch Delegate for Hatfield
Colliery.
In 1994/5 he became Branch Secretary at Hatfield
Main but after the pit was privatised the NUM no longer had any
recognition there.
In 1994 he opened the Miners Community
Advice Centre in Stainforth so that he may help the people from the
mining community - working miners, ex-miners and their widows and
dependants.
The centre also acts as a political, sociological
and Trade Union Centre, taking up the causes affecting the Mining
Industry and Mining Community.
The Miners Community Advice
Centre closed in 2006
Dave has wrote a number of books,
including his autobiography; "Geordies - Wa Mental" and "All power
to the imagination" which is about the "revolutionary class struggle
in trade unions and the petty bourgeois fetish of organisational
purity"
Politically Dave describes himself as "a
revolutionary Marxist on the Anarchist left, and a member of South
Yorkshire Class War and the IWW"
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