He was born in New York City and is the founding editor of LabourStart, an online news service for the international trade union movement.

[1] He is also the author of The Labour Movement and the Internet: The New Internationalism (Pluto Press, 1996) and several other books.

[2] Lee worked as an editor for the social democratic magazine The New International Review.

While living in Israel, he worked as a computer programmer and was politically active in the peace movement and the left.

[2] In the 1990s, Lee created and ran the website BibiWatch, dedicated to criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.