The Socialist was the newspaper

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 of the Socialist Labour Party

Socialist Labour Party (UK, 1903)

The Socialist Labour Party was a socialist political party in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1903 as a splinter from the Social Democratic Federation by James Connolly, Neil Maclean and SDF members impressed with the politics of the American socialist Daniel De Leon, a Marxist...

 (SLP), a De Leonist organisation in Britain

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 founded in 1903.

The newspaper was set up by James Connolly

James Connolly

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 in 1901. He was its first editor, after which George Yates

George Yates

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

Social Democratic Federation

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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 John William Muir

John William Muir

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; John Smith Clarke

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

Arthur MacManus

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, who from 1919 to 1920 was joint editor with Tom Bell

Tom Bell (politician)

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. Publication continued until at least 1924.