John Rees

Thank you @stuartbj.bsky.social. What a lovely post to see - and on my birthday too! 🙂

🚨 Route announcement 🚨

🇵🇸 National demonstration for Palestine
🗓️ Saturday 9 August
📍 Russell Square to Downing St
⏰ Noon

#StopStarvingGaza #StopArmingIsrael

My latest Middle East Column on the new left party and the international policy challleges it faces …https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-left-party-back-mass-movements-bow-establishment

Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England Newly reunited manuscripts by Alice Thornton show how she navigated personal crises during tumultuous events such as the civil war

Alice! Top work @hagenilda.bsky.social @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social @sharonhoward.bsky.social et al!

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My first substack! Holy Spirits: pubs, churches and the soul of the British village. Includes shots of all kinds.

🍻 PLUS my top 5 dissenting pub recommendations 🍻

Free to read. Thanks so much for the support. 👉 open.substack.com/pub/dissente...

This year the town in which I live is 800! In celebration this month’s blog reflects on the role of the North East - and particularly the river Tyne - during the mid-seventeenth century Revolution. @englishheritage.bsky.social www.rachelhammersley.com/new-blog/2025/7/30/north-shields-800

With our upcoming expansion project, we're looking for a talented architect and imaginitive museum designer to work with us. Could this be you? Find out more information on how to tender for either of these roles at: www.cromwellmuseum.org/about-us/cro...

This Labour government has failed. People want real transformative politics – we will give it to them | Jeremy Corbyn More than 500,000 people have signed up to our new party to help build a genuine alternative to poverty, inequality and war, says former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

For too long, people have been denied a real political choice.

Not anymore.

My piece for the Guardian on the extraordinary response to www.yourparty.uk

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Party like its 1900? The new party is a step forward must not become a Labour Party mark 2, argues John Rees The announcement of the intention to form a new left party by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana has been met wi...

My thoughts on the opportunities and challenges of the new left party… www.counterfire.org/article/part...

We need to reignite an organised international anti war movement. This conference is a start. It’s organised by anti war MPs and supported by Stop the War. There are already 1,600 registered. Use the QR code to book your place…https://www.billetweb.fr/meeting-international-contre-la-guerre

My latest for Middle East Eye on Starmer and rearmament…https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-starmer-all-guns-no-butter-policy-will-cost-him-dearly

Picture of people with their fists up, with “80,000 signed up. Join us. Yourparty.uk” written on top of the pic.

In just over 5 hours, 80,000 people have signed up to help build a new kind of political party.

The establishment is already rattled.

This is just the beginning.

Join us: yourparty.uk

Low emission though…so not many leaks…

From US hegemony to a ‘war of all against all’: Boris Kagarlitsky on Trump’s first 100 days Despite severe restrictions on political prisoners, Boris Kagarlitsky continues to analyse global developments. Here, he offers a sharp and often ironic reflection on the dynamics behind Trump’s retur...

My old comrade Boris Kagarlitsky is still in Putin’s prison for anti war activities. But he’s continued to write, including this excellent series of observations about Trump. links.org.au/us-hegemony-...

Labour’s misguided assault on Palestine Action This government is inflicting authoritarianism on the “working people” it claims to serve.

I’m in the @newstatesman.com today on the other side of declining public trust — a government that prosecutes grandmas for holding signs while water bosses and those responsible for the Horizon scandal get off scot-free
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Very sorry this brilliant mind and ever reliable comrade is no longer with us…https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/10/steven-rose-obituary?

Call for papers for the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, taking place at the University of Exeter on 30-31 October. We are exploring early modern conflict in all its forms. We particularly seek to unpack the interactions between the more traditional aspects of conflict, such as the political, tactical and strategic, with the more human side of it, including sociocultural approaches that explore experiences, representations and impacts of violence. As such, we particularly welcome proposals that look beyond purely military history and break chronological, geographical and disciplinary boundaries. We welcome proposals for individual papers of up to 20 minutes, or full panels of three to four papers, on any aspect of conflict, war and violence in the early modern period. Speakers might consider, but are not limited to, the following themes: Physical, tactical, operational and strategic aspects of warfare. Martial identities, values and motivations. Notions of gender, race, class and religion. Remembering, (re)imagining and representing violence and/or conflict. The experience of violence, its impact and the everyday at war. Popular allegiance in early modern conflict. Maritime violence and naval warfare. The bureaucracy of conflict, finance and the law. Abstracts of up to 300 words, along with a biographical note, should be sent to earlymodernwar@gmail.com by Friday 5th September.

We are thrilled to announce that the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, with a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoyle, will be held on 30-31 October at the University of Exeter.

Please help us spread the world, and consider submitting a proposal!🗡️

A fantastic listen – Prof @alicehunt.bsky.social talks about Britain's oft-maligned revolutionary decade and how it actually laid the groundwork for the radical changes in the years following it www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/podcast/brit...

I’ll be talking at the National Portrait Gallery next Thursday lunchtime about the Fiery Spirits, and about the pictures that the gallery holds that relate to their story and the English Revolution… search.app/E5kskMbHGY7t...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

'Until recently,​ trade publishers have avoided England’s republic – as too dowdy, perhaps, and too complex. But now it’s all the rage.' It is, it is!
V pleased with @jonathanhealey.bsky.social's review of my book REPUBLIC in the latest @lrb.co.uk @faberbooks.bsky.social

Looking forward to speaking at Witney Waterstones this evening… Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An Evening with John Rees today.

Tonight…

Tomorrow in Westminster…open to the public and all welcome…

So excited this is being reissued - it’s an incredible work of scholarship and I hope it leads to a general rediscovery of GEM de Ste. Croix

Congratulations! Looks really excellent…

The Blood in Winter: A Nation Descends, 1642 (Bloomsbury Publishing) Buy The Blood in Winter: A Nation Descends, 1642 (Bloomsbury Publishing) by Healey, Dr Jonathan (ISBN: 9781526672292) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Today is publication day for my new history of England’s remarkable winter revolution of 1641-2. I’m really proud of how it turned out and I hope you enjoy it!

Do keep an eye out for signed copies in independent bookshops around the country.

www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Winter...

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