Alan Johnson (editor Democratiya)

Alan Johnson Sept 2006

Alan Johnson is the editor of Democratiya, a free online journal of international politics. He is also an advisory editor of Engage, a founder member of Labour Friends of Iraq, and the co-author of Unite Against Terror and the Euston Manifesto. He opposed the invasion of Iraq. Since 2003 he has supported the work of Iraqi democrats, including Abdullah Muhsin of the Iraqi Workers Federation. Their book Hadi Never Died: Hadi Saleh and the Iraqi Unions will be published by the TUC in Summer 2006.

Alan has previously served as an editor of New Politics: a Journal of Socialist Thought and Historical Materialism: critical research in Marxist Theory. He was a supporter of the newspaper Socialist Organiser in the 1980s and 1990s.

Alan is a reader in Social Science at Edge Hill University, where he teaches a course on the Holocaust. His books include the co-edited Leadership and Social Movements and he has published essays in Radical Philosophy, The Sociological Review, Oral History Journal and Tribune and at normblog and Harry's Place. He has written extensively on the American democratic socialist, Marx scholar and Heine translator, Hal Draper. His essay Democratic Marxism: The Legacy of Hal Draper can be found in Marxism, the Millennium and Beyond, and an intellectual biography will appear in 2007.

Affiliations

• Democratiya -- editor
• Euston Manifesto -- signatory, and principal
• Engage -- advisory editor
• Foreign Policy Centre
• Unite Against Terror -- co-author (with Jane Ashworth)
• Labour Friends of Iraq -- founding member
• Alliance for Workers' Liberty

Contact, References and Resources

Contact

Tel: 01695 584270

Email: johnsona@edgehill.ac.uk

Resources

• Neocon Europe Alan Johnson (editor Democratiya)
• Alan Johnson, The Cultural Cold War: Faust Not the Pied Piper, New Politics, vol. 8, no. 3 (new series), whole no. 31, Summer 2001.
• Alan Johnson, Hamas and antisemitism, Guardian: Comment is Free, 15 May 2008.