circulating the Trotskyist paper 'Red Flag'.
Trotskyists manifesto opposing the war. Hugo Dewar, one of the founders of the British Trotskyist movement died on 14 June after a long illness. Hugo, a member of the Tooting branch of the Communist party, was expelled with the whole of the left opposition group in 1932. During the 1930s when the Trotskyists were persecuted and slandered he devoted his energy and enthusiasm to sustaining and As secretary of the Socialist Anti-War Front he wrote the After declaring his socialist opposition to the war 10 a into the army. In the army he became a prolific writer, con. tributing poems and articles to various socialist journals.
In 1946 he stood as an Independent Labour Party candidate against Douglas Jay in the Battersea by-election. Following this he began a long period of research into Stalinism, writing a long book on the policies of the British Communist Party (later published in an abbreviated form by In 1956, when the whole left was shaken by the Soviet invasion of Hungary he, together with a Rumanian socialist Daniel Norman, wrote a topical pamphlet 'Revolution and Counter Revolution in Hungary' which helped explain these events to a new generation of socialists breaking from Stalinism.
In later years Hugo assisted socialist historians in Paris who were working on the publications of the Leon Trotsky With the passing of Hugo Dewar the international