George Bolton (born 1934) is a Scottish former trade unionist and communist activist. The son of Guy Bolton and nephew of John Bolton, both prominent Scottish communist miners, George joined the Communist Party of Great Britain at the age of sixteen, and was active in the 1959 strike against the closure of the Devon Colliery. He later found work mining in Clackmannan in Scotland, although for a time he was based in Stoke-on-Trent. He was the delegate from the Bogside Mine to the Scottish Area of the National Union of Mineworkers until 1978, when he was elected Vice-President of the area, and became a full-time official as Agent in 1980. He held both these posts during the UK miners' strike, then succeeded Mick McGahey as President in 1987. He became an increasingly vocal critic of Arthur S