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David John Douglass
British trade unionist
David John Douglass, sometimes known as Dave or "Danny the Red", is a political activist in Tyneside and Yorkshire. He is a member of the IWW, the NUM and Class War,[1] and was formerly in the Revolutionary Workers' Party (Trotskyist) and the Socialist Union (Internationalist), of which he was a leading member. He is a regular contributor to the Weekly Worker, the newspaper of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee).[1] He has also written Pit Talk in County Durham (1973), a book about the dialect Pitmatic.
He holds an MA in Industrial Relations and Law.[2]