Ken Coates

Ken Coates ( born September 16, 1930 in Leek Staffordshire, † 27 June 2010) was a British politician and writer. He was until his death chairman of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation and editor of The Spokesman, the first published in March 1970 Magazine of the Foundation. Coates sat from 1989 to 1999 in the European Parliament.

Life

As a former member of the Young Communist League ( Britain ), he worked as a coal miner in Nottinghamshire. He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain. After the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956, Coates and Pat Jordan were at the center of a group of Marxists turned toward Trotskyism. After his participation in the Fifth World Congress of the Fourth International in 1958, Coates played a central role in the founding of the International Group, the predecessor of the International Marxist Group.

Coates has held well in the Institute for Workers' Control in the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, European Nuclear Disarmament, the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation ( BRPF ) and the Independent Labour Network leadership roles. From 1989 to 1999 he sat for the Labour Party as a member in the European Parliament where he also served for five years as President of the Human Rights Subcommittee. In early 1998 he was expelled together on the basis of his criticism of the policies of Tony Blair and his party colleague Hugh Kerr of the Socialist Group in the EP as well as from the Labour Party. Coates joined then to the Confederal Group of the European United Left. Coates was a professor of adult education at the University of Nottingham. Before the election of the Scottish Parliament in 2007 Coates announced its support for the Scottish National Party.

Coates is the author of Essays on Socialist Humanism, a book in honor of Bertrand Russell. He also has a variety of books on the subjects of poverty, political philosophy, democratic and humane socialism, peace, disarmament, human rights and social and economic issues written or edited. His book The Case of Nikolai Bukharin ( Nottingham: Spokesman, 1978) is considered by some as an international base of rehabilitation this bolshevikischen leader.

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Works

  • A Future for British Socialism? , The Centre for Socialist Education 96pp
  • Beyond the Bulldozer, ISBN 0-902031-43-0, Spokesman Books 1980
  • Confessions of a terrorist, ISBN 0-85124-678-8, Spokesman Books 2003
  • Empire is no more, ISBN 0-85124-694 -X
  • Essays on Industrial Democracy, Spokesman Books
  • Poverty: The Forgotten Englishmen, Harmondsworth. Penguin. ISBN 0-14-052280-8
  • The New Unionism: the case for worker 's control, Penguin Books, 1974, ISBN 0-14-021811-4.
  • Trade Union Register, Merlin Press 1969
  • Trade unions and politics, ISBN 0-631-13753- X, Basil Blackwell, Oxford
  • Trade Unions in Britain, ISBN 0-00-686121-0, Fontana Press May 12, 1988
  • Workers ' Control: A Book of Readings and Witnesses for Workers' Control
  • Workers' Control: Another World Is Possible, ISBN 0-85124-682-6, Spokesman
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