Michael Joseph Hicks (1 August 1937 – 7 September 2017) was a British politician, executive member of printers’ union SOGAT, and general secretary of the Communist Party of Britain.

Hicks served as its general secretary until his replacement by Robert Griffiths in 1998,[9] which led to an industrial dispute at the Morning Star,[10] and subsequently left the party and helped to form the Marxist Forum group.

He joined the Labour Party, and unsuccessfully stood, as a council election candidate in the Boscombe East ward of Bournemouth on 5 May 2011, gaining 514 votes.

A former catholic, she challenged the monopolisation of newspaper distribution, and helped to establish a diversity and pluralism campaign alongside supporters such as Ken Livingstone and Peter Bottomley.

[13][14][15] Hicks died at age 80 on the evening of 7 September 2017 after collapsing while accepting the position of Honorary President of Bournemouth Labour Party at its annual general meeting.