A British Anarchist and Propagandist, George Barrett (born George Powell Ballard, 1888–1917) was a brilliant and tragically short-lived English anarchist writer, speaker, and organizer of the 1910s.

Though he trained as an engineering draughtsman, Barrett dedicated his life to anarchist propaganda, becoming a prominent voice during the period of industrial militancy known as the Great Unrest (1910–1914).

He was known for his immense energy and eloquence, he was an effective public speaker and organizer, helping to establish the Glasgow Anarchist Group.
He was a frequent contributor to the anarchist paper Freedom and briefly edited his own weekly paper, The Anarchist (1912).

His most enduring legacy is through his clear and persuasive pamphlets, which include:
The Last War (1915), which argued that the only war the working class should fight is class war, and was suppressed by the government.

The Anarchist Revolution (1915).
Objections to Anarchism (published posthumously in 1921), a classic work that addresses common arguments against anarchist principles.

He was a vocal opponent of World War I, signing the "International Anarchist Manifesto on the War," which opposed the pro-Allied stance taken by some prominent anarchists like Peter Kropotkin.

Barrett died prematurely from tuberculosis in 1917 at the age of 28, a significant loss to the British anarchist movement.

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