John Rees (activist)
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John Rees (born 1957) is a British Trotskyist political activist and a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Workers Party. He is a former editor of International Socialism, National Secretary of the Respect coalition, co-founder of the Stop the War Coalition and vice-president (Europe) of the International Campaign Against Aggression on Iraq.
He was top of the Respect party list in the West Midlands region for the 2004 European Election, and the Respect candidate for the Birmingham Hodge Hill by-election in 2004. He also stood for Respect in the 2006 local elections, in the Bethnal Green South ward of Tower Hamlets, East London. In 2006, John Pilger said that 'I know of few who speak and write more wisely of the danger we face from rapacious power, and what we should do about it, than John Rees'.
[edit] Selected articles/works
- Imperialism and Resistance (2006)
- Trotsky and the Dialectic of History
- Engels' Marxism
- Tony Cliff
- The Algebra Of Revolution : Dialectic And The Classical Marxist Tradition (1998)
- Socialism And War
- Essays On Historical Materialism (editor) (1998)
- In Defence Of October
- The ABC of Socialism
- Imperialism : Globalisation, the State and War
- The Socialist Revolution & the Democratic Revolution
- The Broad Party, the Revolutionary Party & the United Front
- Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
