IS Journal Writers: John Rose


John Rose

John Rose

(1945–2024)

Internet Archive


Biographies

Lindsey German: John Rose: A Revolutionary Life (Counterfire, 1 November 2024>

Ken Muller: John Rose – an inspiration for revolutionaries (Socialist Worker, 2 November 2024)

Mike Milotte: John Rose obituary, (The Guardian, 9 December 2024)

Works:

September 1976: The Southall Asian Youth Movement

May 1977: The struggle against the Social Contract (with Steve Jefferys & Sheila McGregor)

May 1977: The struggle against the Social Contract (with Chris Harman)

November 1977: Grunwicks – Union Power (book review)

1986: Israel – The Hijack State (book)

November 1993: Out on his own (film review)

February 1994: A touch of class

Winter 1999: Jesus – history’s most famous missing person

March 2002: Purging the Demons (book review)

April 2002: Arabs and Jews can live in peace

Spring 2003: The Jubilee and the Apocalypse (book review)

November 2003: Edward Said – A Culture of Resistance (obituary)

April 2004: Israel – a state based on violence from its birth

July 2004: ‘Touch of genius with words’ (obituary)

October 2004: ‘Sparks of Hope in the Past’ (interview by Simon Assaf)

October 2004: Partners in crime – why does the US back Israel?

November 2004: Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) – the gun and the olive branch

Spring 2005: The other Moses (book review)

December 2005: Eleanor Marx

December 2005: Judas of Galilee – who didn’t betray the movement

January 2006: Marek Edelman – star of resistance among Nazi horror

January 2006: Munich – exploring the oppressors’ troubled conscience (film review)

July 2006: Zionism – Israeli war drive fuelled by murderous doctrine

July 2006: Ten reasons to oppose Zionism

January 2007: Palestine: Fatah, Hamas, Israel and the West

April 2007: Time to debate Israel

June 2007: Debate sparked by Six Day War 1967 transformed a generation

Winter 2008: Religious persuasion? (book review)

Summer 2008: Karl Marx, Abram Leon and the Jewish Question – a reappraisal

May 2008: Israel – created by terrorism

Autumn 2008: Zionism under the microscope (book review)

Summer 2009: A history lacking in hindsight (book review)

October 2009: Politics of honour – Naji al-Ali (letter)

October 2009: Marek Edelman – The Ghetto fighter (obituary)

November 2009: Chomsky is too pessimistic on Palestine

November 2009: Chris Harman’s ideas were forged in the heat of the struggles of 1968

Winter 2010: Jewish intellectuals and Palestinian liberation (book review)

Winter 2010: Zionism, socialism and nationalism (interview, with Shlomo Sand)

January 2010: Lecturers union commemorates the Holocaust

March 2010: Israel is still the US’s watchdog

April 2010: Trials of the Diaspora (book review)

December 2010: Pathfinders – The Golden Age of Arabic Science (book review)

Winter 2011: Tony Cliff’s Lenin and the Russian Revolution

February 2011: The answer to Palestine’s liberation lies in Cairo

April 2011: Jerusalem: The Biography (book review)

Autumn 2011: Messianic strains (book review)

February 2012: Holocaust survivor Esther Brunstein speaks out ... ‘I have a mission to bear witness’ (interview, with Jan Ladzinski)

April 2012: Chanie Rosenberg interview – By my 100th birthday I want to see socialism (interview, with Jaz Blackwell-Pal)

November 2012: Why the Arab Spring has changed everything in the Middle East

Spring 2013: Lenin’s “Left-Wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder revisited

January 2014: Ariel Sharon was a war criminal – not a peacemaker (obituary)

Spring 2014: Early chapters of the Jewish story (book review)

April 2014: Lenin, Luxemburg and the War

Summer 2014: Ukraine and the Bolsheviks

July 2014: The great betrayal of Palestine by the Arab ruling classes

September 2014: Can Arab and Jews live together?

Summer 2015: Luxemburg, Müller and the Berlin workers’ and soldiers’ councils

Winter 2016: Half socialist? Leon Trotsky and the Soviet Union

Spring 2016: Revolutionary workers’ movements and parliaments in Germany 1918–23

April 2016: Don’t fall into your opponents’ traps

September 2016: Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885–1937 – Life of an Old Bolshevik (book review)

Winter 2017: All power to the factory councils?

Winter 2017: Debating the world revolution (book review)

Winter 2017: Rescuing Lenin (book review)

January 2017: Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism today

Spring 2018: Chris Harman, 1968 and the historic Open Letter to the Polish Communist Party

February 2019: Iran 1979 – an opportunity squandered

July 2019: A thirst for socialism (letter)

Autumn 2020: The Bolsheviks and antisemitism (book review)

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Last updated 22 November 2024