Hugo Dewar

Hugo Dewar (9 August 1908 – June 1980) was a Trotskyist activist influential in founding many of the early British Trotskyist groups.

Dewar was born in Leyton in London in 1908. He joined the Independent Labour Party in 1928, and in 1930 co-founded the Marxian League. He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1931, but was expelled the following year. He was one of the founders in 1932 of the Communist League, and remained active in International Left Opposition groups until he was drafted into the army in 1943. He was an adult education tutor.

In early 1938 in London, Dewar married Margareta Watzova, a fellow Communist who had been born in Latvia in the Russian Empire.

Dewar died in West Sussex in 1980.