Dave Douglass

Content by or about David John Douglass, a former miner and "a revolutionary Marxist on the Anarchist left, and a member of South Yorkshire Class War and the IWW", based in Tyneside and Yorkshire.

Dave Douglass photo

Arthur Scargill being interviewed at Kingsnorth climate camp 2008

Kingsnorth 2008/Lisbon 1982. Miners and ecos. Monbiot & Scargill

A 1982 wall poster by the Wise Brothers and Phil Meyler on ecology, followed by a 2008 critique -…

Heavy Stuff - Coal mining issue cover

The Heavy Stuff: Coal communities in conflict - Dave Douglass

A special edition of the Class War Federation's "Heavy Stuff" on coal mining communities in the UK…

A year of our lives cover - photos of various people from Hatfield Main community, plus riot cops

A year of our lives: a colliery community in the great coal strike of 1984/85

An anthology of accounts of the miners strike by people from Hatfield, South Yorkshire. Compiled by…

"From Moscow to Washington - international anarcho-syndicalism" - black text printed over a full page crowd scene in red ink

Direct Action #74 (summer 1991)

An issue of this anarcho-syndicalist newspaper including: Tory "citizens charter", Trades Councils - are they worth it?, Dave Douglass on the NUM…

A Donald Rooum "Wildcat" cartoon in which the cat leaps in the air shouting "All bosses out!" whilst pointing at a caricature of a white bald male boss in a fancy car which is being carried by two workers.

The Raven #36: Class Struggle and Social Protest

Anarchist journal published by Freedom Press in 1997. This issue is themed around class struggle - its contents are of extremely variable quality…

Headline "fewer hands make more money"

Direct Action (SWF): #06 1975

1975 issue of Direct Action including: Ulster, Tameside refuse workers, letter from Dave Douglass on miners.

Hand and typewritten cover page

Bores Under the Floor: A Brief Guide to the Wave of "Left" Groups and Newspapers currently invading the Pit Villages

Report on the nature and impact of socialist and anarchist groups during the 1984…

A Climate of Mistrust?

A Climate of Mistrust? The Working Class and Climate Camp

A pamphlet discussing the supposed contradiction between the climate activists who oppose new coal…

Direct Action #47 (March 1988)

Issue #47 of Direct Action, with articles on a Manchester nurses' strike, unpaid work in the NHS, a dispute at Ford's, a Burton's boycott, …

Direct Action #46 (February 1988)

Issue #46 of Direct Action, with articles on NHS disputes, unofficial strikes at Ford, Linda Bellos overseeing "left Labour" cuts in Lambeth,…

Cover and contents page

Echanges 74/75 - 1994

Issue 74/75 of Echanges from http://archivesautonomies.org/

Black Flag 237 (2015)

The last of the titles from the 2007-15 Black Flag collective looked at a brief wave of squatting in the capital and took an in-depth look at the…