John Ross (blogger)

John Ross is a British economist and blogger, known for his leadership of the Trotskyist party Socialist Action and his support for the Chinese government.

[6] Running as an independent candidate for Mayor of London in 2000, Livingstone's decision to appoint members of Socialist Action to his administration during his first term drew criticism in the media, including accusations of cronyism.

[9][6][10] In 2007 Livingstone changed the GLA rules so that his eight key advisers, four associated with SA (including John Ross and the late Redmond O'Neill), who as temporary appointments would not normally have been entitled to severance pay, received an average of £200,000 each.

He is a columnist in English at the state media China Internet Information Center[19] and is translated into Chinese at Guancha.cn[20] and Sina Finance Opinion Leaders.

In a video with Jodie Evans of Code Pink, he describes allegations of persecution of Uyghurs in China as “farcical” and a “total lie.” He has written:If the real meaning of the term ‘human rights’ is used, it is evident that China has the best human rights record in the world — and those words are carefully chosen.

[23]In the New Statesman, left-wing journalist Paul Mason identified Ross and his paper Socialist Action as "committed to whitewashing China's authoritarian form of capitalism".