George Garrett (activist)

George Garrett (13 August 1896 – 28 May 1966)[1] was a British labour activist, writer and actor.

He was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World,[2] and notable working class writer.

[3] Garrett was a merchant seaman, writer, playwright and founder member of the Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

He was a radical activist who travelled the world and wrote a series of short stories, plays and pieces of reportage about hunger and unemployment in the 1930s.

He was a syndicalist who joined the Industrial Workers of the World when he lived in New York for three years, and was influenced by the Irish American Playwright Eugene O'Neill.