Hinden, Rita (1909–1971)

South African-born British socialist writer. She was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and her family emigrated to Palestine in 1927 (the first family from South Africa to do so). She continued her education in Liverpool and the London School of Economics. A Zionist, Hinden joined the Independent Labour Party and in 1939 (having returned briefly to Palestine), the Labour Party. In 1940, with Arthur Creech-Jones, she founded the Fabian Colonial Bureau, which proved an influential research body through which Hinden published Plan For Africa (1941).

She married in Palestine in 1933 and she and her husband returned to Britain the same year. In the 1950s she was active in the Socialist Union and as editor of the revisionist journal Socialist Commentary. An ethical socialist, whose beliefs owed much to R H Tawney, in 1964 she edited a posthumous volume of his essays, The Radical Tradition.