User:Bigdaddy1981/Mike Hicks (politician)

Mike Hicks (born 1937) is a British communist and former executive member of SOGAT, the printers’ union.

Hicks joined the Young Communist League in 1953 and later the Communist Party of Great Britain. He worked as a printer and was a member of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades (SOGAT). A full-time branch official for the union in 1986, Hicks was arrested and convicted of actual bodily harm during the Wapping dispute. His conviction and sentencing - to 12 months in prison - were controversial; however, with the then national executive of the Labour Party voting unanimously to call for his release.

Hicks was expelled in 1985 from the CPGB for "for allowing Rule 3(d) to be applied" as the chair of the London District Congress. and was a founding member of the Communist Party of Britain and its general-secretary until his replacement by Robert Griffiths in 1998.