David John Douglass

David John Douglass AKA Dave or Danny the Red 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 .

He worked as a coal miner in the coal fields of Durham and South Yorkshire and was NUM Branch Delegate for Hatfield Colliery from 1979. In 1994/5 he became Branch Secretary at Hatfield Main but after the pit was privatised the NUM no longer had any recognition there.

From 1994 to 2006 he helped run the Miners Community Advice Centre in Stainforth.

The three volumes of his autobiography were published between 2008 and 2010.

References

Miners Advice Website page on Dave Douglass:

Published works

• Pit Life in County Durham, History Workshop, 1972
• Pit Talk in County Durham, History Workshop, 1973
• A Miner's Life [with Joel Krieger], Law Book Co Australasia, 1983
• Tell Us Lies About The Miners, DAM, 1985
• Come And Wet This Truncheon, DAM/Canary Press, 1986
• A Year Of Our Lives, Hooligan Press, 1986
• Pit Sense versus the State: a history of militant miners in the Doncaster area, Phoenix Press, year unknown [ISBN 0-948984-26-0]
• All Power to the Imagination!, Class War Federation, 1999 [ISBN 0-9537347-0-6]
• Geordies — Wa Mental, Christie Books, 2008 [ISBN 978-1-873976-34-0]
• The Wheel's Still in Spin, Christie Books, 2009 [ISBN 978-1-873976-36-4]
• Ghost Dancers, Christie Books, 2010 [ISBN 978-1-873976-40-1]