David John Douglass, sometimes known as Dave or "Danny the Red", is a political activist in Tyneside and Yorkshire.
He is a regular contributor to the Weekly Worker, the newspaper of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee).
[2] He worked as a coalminer in the coalfields of Durham and South Yorkshire, and was NUM Branch Delegate for Hatfield Colliery from 1979.
He appears in the documentary The Miner's Campaign Tapes to discuss the role of the popular media in the strike of 1984–85.
[2] The three volumes of his autobiography, Geordies — Wa Mental, The Wheel's Still in Spin and Ghost Dancers, were published by Christie Books between 2008 and 2010.