Miner Len Doherty (1930-83) was probably the most successful of the CPGB's post-war novelists, being the inspiration for 'Davie' in Clancy Sigal's classic 'Weekend in Dinlock' (1960). This article reproduces a very interesting 1956 article from Doherty on working-class writing and its attendant problems.
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