George Yates (politician)
- George Yates (politician)
George Yates was a British socialist politician.
An engineering draughtsperson, Yates became an active trade unionist in Leith, Scotland, and joined the Social Democratic Federation (SDF). By 1898, he was identified as a member of the left wing of the party, and began lecturing alongside James Connolly. [Eden and Cedar Paul, "Proletcult (proletarian Culture)"]
In 1900, he was a delegate to the Congress of the Second International, where he was the only British delegate to vote against a motion supporting Alexandre Millerand's decision to join the French government. [ [http://en.internationalism.org/book/print/251 What is the SPGB?, Part 1] ]
Becoming a convinced supporter of industrial unionism, Yates argued alongside Connolly for the SDF adopting the policies of Daniel De Leon. He supported the SDF's withdrawal from the Labour Representation Committee in 1901. [ [http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/feb00/lrc.html The Birth of Labourism] ]
In 1903, he wrote an article in Connolly's paper, "The Socialist" entitled "The Official SDF", which was critical of the organisation's Executive. He was promptly expelled. This was the trigger which provoked the a group of impossibilist SDF members, mostly in Scotland, to form the Socialist Labour Party, within which Yates became a leading figure and editor of "The Socialist". [Neil Redfern, "Class or Nation: Communists, Imperialism and Two World Wars"] In September 1904, Yates resigned his position, claiming that he was unable to edit the paper while holding down a full-time job. [Raymond Challinor, "The Origins of British Bolshevism"]
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