David Douglass AKA Dave or Danny the Red is a Yorkshire political activist and writer. He is a member of IWW, NUM, South Yorkshire Class War and formerly of the Revolutionary Workers' Party (Trotskyist).
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.
References
Miners Advice Website page on Dave Douglass: [1]
Published works
- All Power to the Imagination! The Class War Federation, 1999. ISBN 0953734706
- Geordies — Wa Mental Christie Books, 2008 ISBN 9781873976340
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