Cliff Slaughter
Cliff Slaughter, brought up in a Communist Party family in Yorkshire, worked as a coalminer as an alternative to military National Service, before graduating from Cambridge University. He co-authored the classic Coal is Our Life with Norman Dennis and Fernando Henriques, since when has written a number of books on the working-class movement, socialism and Marxist theory, including Marxism, Ideology and Literature, and, more recently, Not Without a Storm: towards a communist manifesto for the age of globalisation and Bonfire of the Certainties: the second human revolution. Now retired, he for many years taught social anthropology and sociology at the Universities of Leeds and Bradford.
