Feisty miner reminds that comfortable compromisers are easily forgotten.
In this piece (originally published by The Tyee in 2014), Mark Leier, author of Bakunin: The Creative Passion, emphasises the radical edge of Ginger Goodwin – the English migrant coal miner turned labour organiser who is recognised as a martyr by many workers in British Columbia, Canada – by comparing him to one of his contemporaries.
The masters can howl: we do not hide our intentions, for we are what they have made us -- the dispossessed class that is out to overthrow them.
Ginger Goodwin