''The Socialist'' was the newspaper of the Socialist Labour Party (SLP), a

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organisation in Britain founded in 1903.

Publication history

Establishment

''The Socialist'' was set up by James Connolly in 1901. He was its first editor, after which

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took over. During Yates' editorship, it was the focus of the De Leonists within the

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(SDF). After writing an article critical of the SDF Executive in 1903, Yates was expelled, and the supporters of ''The Socialist'' founded the SLP. In 1904, Yates resigned; by the early 1910s, it was edited by

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;

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was editor for a time, while this role was later taken on by

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, who from 1919 to 1920 was joint editor with Tom Bell. Publication was sporadic after 1922, but it continued on occasion as a duplicated journal.Raymond Challinor, ''The Origins of British Bolshevism'', pp. 274-275

Later years

The publication continued to be published as the organ of the

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throughout the 1920s and 1930s, briefly lapsing from publication during the second half of the latter decade.Eric Hass, "The Socialist Labor Party and the Internationals," ''Fifty Years of American Marxism, 1891-1941: Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Weekly People.'' New York: Socialist Labor Party of America, 1941, pg. 50. Publication of the monthly was resumed in January 1939.

Editors

* James Connolly (1901) *

(1903) * John Carstairs Matheson (1904) *

(c. 1910) * John S. Clarke (1913) *

(1914) * Arthur MacManus and Tom Bell (1919) * James Clunie (1920)

Footnotes

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