What is Mike Hicks?
[[File:Mike Hicks.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Hicks in 1986]] '''Mike Hicks''' (August 1937 &ndash; 7 September 2017) was a [[British]] former [[politician]], former executive member of printers’ union [[SOGAT]], and former General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of Britain]] from 1988 through 1998.<ref>{{cite web|last1=MacLeod|first1=Alexander|title=British Far Left Grapples With Soviet Collapse|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/1991/0905/05032.html|publisher=Christian Science Monitor|date=5 September 1991}}</ref> He was also a members of the [[Labour Party (United Kingdom)|Labour Party]]. He was born in [[Wapping]], [[London]], [[England]]. Hicks died on 7 September 2017 in [[Bournemouth]], [[Dorset]], England of a [[heart attack]] at the age of 80.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-59c3-Wapping-vet-Hicks-died-giving-speech#.WbOzkoqxVhA|title=Wapping veteran Mike Hicks dies aged 80|first=People’s Printing Press|last=Society|website=morningstaronline.co.uk|access-date=18 September 2017|archive-date=12 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912020836/http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-59c3-Wapping-vet-Hicks-died-giving-speech#.WbOzkoqxVhA|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hicks, Mike}} [[Category:1937 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:British communists]] [[Category:Politicians from London]] {{bio-stub}}