Jean Iris Ross Cockburn was a British journalist, political activist, and film critic. A devout Stalinist, she became a lifelong member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and she worked as a film critic for the Daily Worker. During the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), she served as a war correspondent for the Daily Express and as an alleged press agent for Joseph Stalin's Comintern. Throughout her lifetime, Ross wrote political criticism, anti-fascist polemics, and socialist manifestos for various organisations such as the British Workers' Film and Photo League.
- Occupation
- singer, writer, war correspondent
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- May 7, 1911
- Died
