Arthur MacManus

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Arthur MacManus was a Scottish trade unionist and political activist, best remembered for his involvement in the formation and early years of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

MacManus came to prominence as a shop steward and leader of the Clyde Workers' Committee in Glasgow during the First World War. He was among the activists deported to Edinburgh in 1916, following the dispute at William Beardmore and Company's engineering works. He was originally a member of the Socialist Labour Party and a vociferous anti-conscription and anti-war agitator throughout the 1914-1918 period.

Macmanus was one of the founders of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920 and was a member of the executive committee of the Third International.

Following his death, Arthur MacManus' ashes of were interred in the wall of the Kremlin in Moscow in recognition of his role as a pioneer of communism.