Hamish Fraser (16 August 1913 – 17 October 1986)[1] was a Scottish communist who fought with the International Brigades and was a participant in the Red Terror during the Spanish Civil War.
Following the defeat of the Second Spanish Republic, Fraser returned to Scotland and became a full member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), rising to the status of group leader at the John Brown & Company Engine and Boiler Works in Clydebank.
He became an outspoken anti-communist and campaigned against the Communist MP Willie Gallacher in the West Fife constituency at the 1950 UK general election.
[2] Fraser also helped to introduce the Blue Army of Our Lady of Fátima, an international lay Catholic and anti-communist organisation, to Scotland.
During a speech in Dublin in the early 1950s, Fraser also praised what he called, "the heroic stand of General Franco against Soviet barbarism".