Life of a miners’ leader, socialist, anti-imperialist and perpetually rebellious Labour MP
MARY DAVIS reviews a new biography of an outstanding socialist MP and militant trade unionist
Reddest of the Reds: SO Davies, MP and Miners’ Leader
by Robert Griffiths (Manifesto Press, £19.50)
IT IS likely that, outside Wales, most people in the rest of Britain will not have heard of SO Davies.
This fact marks yet another lacuna in our knowledge of British labour history.
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