Richard Dixon, born Clifton Reginald Walker (26 May 1905 – 7 March 1976) was an Australian trade unionist who served as national president of the Communist Party of Australia from 1948 to 1972.
He was born at Forbes to miner Henry Kidd Walker and Emily, née Wilmott, although the family soon moved to Lithgow.
[1] In January 1931, Walker embarked on a visit to the Soviet Union, attending the International Lenin School in Moscow.
He returned to Australia in March 1933 and changed his name to Richard Dixon in an attempt to evade the attention of the security service, which had labelled him a "dangerous revolutionary".
In 1945 he attacked the White Australia policy as racist and offensive, and he represented the CPA at the Petrov royal commission in 1954.