placed him at 85 in a list of the 100 most influential British left-wingers. Around this time, Rees was the founder and organising committee member of The People's Assembly. In 2016, Rees toured the UK to support Jeremy Corbyn's bid to become Prime Minister. Selected works Articles "Trotsky and the Dialectic of History" International Socialism Journal no. 47, Summer 1990, pp. 113–135. "Engels's Marxism" International Socialism 2:65, Winter 1994. "The Socialist Revolution and the Democratic Revolution" Issue 83 of INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM JOURNAL Published Summer 1999 "Tony Cliff: Theory and Practice" International Socialism Journal 87, Summer 2000. Books Socialism and War (1990) The ABC of Socialism (1994) Marxism and the New Imperialism (1994) (editor and contributor) In Defence of October: A Debate on the Russian Revolution (with others including Robin Blackburn) (1997) The Algebra of Revolution: The Dialectic and the Classical Marxist Tradition (1998) Essays on Historical Materialism (editor) (1998) Imperialism and Resistance (2006) The People Demand, a short history of the Arab revolutions (with Joseph Daher)(2011) Timelines, a political history of the modern world (2012) A People's History of London (with Lindsey German) (2012) The Leveller Revolution: Radical Political Organisation in England, 1640-1650 (2017) References External links John Rees at Socialist Review 1957 births Living people British Marxists British people of Welsh descent British political party founders British Trotskyists British writers People from Chippenham Respect Party parliamentary candidates Socialist Workers Party (UK) members