David John Douglass AKA Dave or Danny the Red is a Tyneside

Tyneside

Tyneside is a conurbation in North East England, defined by the Office of National Statistics, which is home to over 80% of the population of Tyne and Wear. It includes the city of Newcastle upon Tyne and the Metropolitan Boroughs of Gateshead, North Tyneside and South Tyneside — all settlements on...

 and Yorkshire

Yorkshire

Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...

 political activist and writer. He is a member of IWW

Industrial Workers of the World

The Industrial Workers of the World is an international union. At its peak in 1923, the organization claimed some 100,000 members in good standing, and could marshal the support of perhaps 300,000 workers. Its membership declined dramatically after a 1924 split brought on by internal conflict...

, NUM, Class War

Class War

Class War is a UK class struggle based group and newspaper originally set up by Ian Bone and others in 1983. It subsequently mutated various forms, becoming specifically anarchist....

 and formerly of the Revolutionary Workers' Party (Trotskyist)

Revolutionary Workers' Party (Trotskyist)

The Revolutionary Workers' Party is a socialist political party in the United Kingdom, based in Birmingham.It was founded in 1962 by members of the Revolutionary Socialist League who supported the Fourth International of J. Posadas when it split from the International Secretariat of the Fourth...

 and the Socialist Union (Internationalist) of which he was a leading member .

He worked as a coal miner in the coal fields of Durham

Durham

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 and South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It has a population of 1.29 million. It consists of four metropolitan boroughs: Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and City of Sheffield...

 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

Stainforth, South Yorkshire

Stainforth is a small town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, in South Yorkshire, England. It is located roughly north-east of Doncaster, close to Hatfield and Thorne. It has a population of 6,342.-Etymology:...

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

Published works

• All Power to the Imagination! The Class War Federation, 1999. ISBN 0953734706
• Geordies — Wa Mental Christie Books, 2008 ISBN 9781873976340
• 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