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.

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Beyond Thatcher : militant testimonies on miners’ struggles and British syndicalism from yesterday and today

This year, Margaret Thatcher’s death reminded us of the economic policies she…

The Heavy Stuff 5 cover

The Heavy Stuff #5 - Class War

The fifth and final issue of the Class War Federation’s theoretical journal The Heavy Stuff, from 10 July 1992, with articles about Europe,…

Tell us lies about the miners - Dave Douglass

An angry study of the UK media campaign of distortion and lies against miners during the great strike of 1984-5, written by one of the…

Interview with Dave Douglass

Originally published in Shift Magazine #4, September 2008.

Pit sense or no sense?

Subversion review Pit Sense Versus the State - a history of militant miners in the Doncaster area, by David John Douglass, published by Phoenix Press.

A year of our lives - 20 years since the great coal strike of 1984-1985

Dave Douglass looks back on the great miners strike, twenty years on. Recalling information about…

Come and wet this truncheon - Dave Douglass

Classic pamphlet by miner and anarcho-syndicalist Dave Douglass on political policing during the British Miners’ Strike of 1984/5 - when the…

Review: All Power to the Imagination

Outside and against the unions - Wildcat

Focusing on the example of the NUM in the UK miners strike of 1984-5, Wildcat argue that far from helping workers, unions actually act as a…

Answer to Dave Douglass - Cajo Brendel

Brendel replies to Douglass's criticisms of a summary of "Autonomous Class Struggle in Great Britain".

Some thoughts as I read the pamphlet "Autonomous Class Struggle in Britain" (Dave Douglass)

Dave Douglass' comments on "Autonomous Class Struggle in Britain".

Goodbye to the Unions! - A Controversy About Autonomous Class Struggle in Great Britain

A debate between Dutch Council communist Cajo Brendel and NUM official Dave Douglass about the…