This article discusses the author's discovery of British activist Ken Coates in October 2012 when Canadian political economist Leo Panitch mentioned Coates during a lecture in Nottingham, Great Britain. Topics covered include the author's impression about Ken's collection of essays, "Beyond Wage Slavery," the involvement of Ken from the early 1960s onwards in efforts to mobilise, organise and educate the British Labour Movement on a socialist basis, and Ken's writings and political initiatives.