Cliff Slaughter

Cliff Slaughter
Born
Clifford Slaughter

(1928-09-18)18 September 1928
Died3 May 2021(2021-05-03) (aged 92)
Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
EducationLeeds Modern School
Alma materDowning College, Cambridge
OccupationsSocialist, activist, sociologist, author
Political party
WIRFI
Other political
affiliations
SpouseBarbara Bennett
Parents
  • Frederick Arthur Slaughter (father)
  • Elizabeth Stokeld (mother)
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Cliff Slaughter (18 September 1928 – 3 May 2021) was a British socialist activist, sociologist and author. His best-known works are Coal is Our Life (written with Norman Dennis and Fernando Henriques) and Marxism, Ideology and Literature. In 2006, Slaughter published the book Not Without a Storm: Towards a Communist Manifesto for the Age of Globalisation, followed by the book Bonfire of the Certainties: The Second Human Revolution in 2013.