William Arthur Watkin Strachan (16 April 1921 – 26 April 1998) was a leading British communist, black civil rights pioneer, charity worker, and British legal expert, most famous for both his wartime achievements with the Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II, and his reputation as a highly influential figure within Britain's black communities. During WWII, Strachan survived 33 bombing operations against Nazi Germany. After the war he became a communist and a human rights activist, campaigning for universal suffrage and worker's rights. Between 1952 and 1956 he published the newspaper Caribbean News, the first monthly Black British newspaper.