Martin Wright was a co-founder of British anarchist movement Class War together with Ian Bone and others. Bone and Wright were also organisers as the anti-royalist group Movement against the Monarchy (MA'M).
He also worked with many other groups including the London Autonomists and production collective of Anarchy Magazine and Xtra during the 1970s and early 1980s.
With his brother Daniel Wright, he wrote a novel Camden Parasites under the pseudonym Daniel Lux, published in 1999 by Unpopular Books.