Dates

• Existence: 1912 - 1977

Biography

Norman John (James) Klugmann (1912-1977) was of Jewish descent. He became a leading member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, having attended Trinity College, Cambridge, and was a contemporary of Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and John Cornford in the 1930s. During WWII he served in SOE in Cairo, rising to the rank of major. After the War he devoted himself to the Communist Party, `an undeviating adherent to party orthodoxy´, and was, from 1963 until 1977, editor of Marxism Today.

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