John Rees (born 1957) is a British political activist, academic, journalist[1] and writer who is a national officer of the Stop the War Coalition, and founding member of Counterfire.

[2] His father, William Rees was from Aberdare, South Wales, and was a lifelong trade union activist and Labour Party member.

[citation needed] Rees' first degree was in Politics from Portsmouth Polytechnic[3] and he subsequently undertook research on Hegel and Marx at Hull University under Dr (now Lord) Bhikhu Parekh.

When Georg Lukacs' unknown manuscript "Tailism and the Dialectic" was discovered and published by Verso Books in 2000, Rees provided the introduction to the volume.

He also stood for Respect in the 2006 local election in the Bethnal Green South ward of Tower Hamlets in East London, where he came second to Labour.

Jerry White in The Guardian wrote: "Those who continue to uphold London's living traditions of protest will be able to take heart from this fresh and welcome look at the city's history.

[11] Jo Lo Dicio in The Independent on Sunday wrote: "Had these two been political pamphleteers through the ages, one doubts many revolutionary sparks would ever have been lit.