Described as 'the British Brecht', Ewan MacColl (1915-1989) was a major twentieth-century political artist. He became a communist at fourteen and spent six decades at the cultural forefront of numerous political struggles, producing plays, songs and radio programmes on subjects from Spanish Civil War to Poll Tax. This is the biography of MacColl.

Drawing on extensive research, "Class Act: The Cultural and Political Life of Ewan MacColl" is a freshly conceived and energetically written account of a highly creative and controversial activist.

Preface
1. Lower Broughton
2. Red Haze
3. Welcome, Comrade
4. Browned Off
5. A Richer, Fuller Life
6. Towards a People's Culture
7. Croydon, Soho, Moscow, Paris
8. Bard of Beckenham
9. Let a Hundred Flowers Blossom
10. Sanctuary
11. Endgame
Notes
Index.