Alan Johnson (political theorist)
- Alan Johnson (political theorist)
Alan Johnson is a British intellectual and professor.
Career
Johnson is professor of political theory at Edge Hill University. [ http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2007/jun/03/alanjohnson] He is a scholar of the labor movement in Iraq. [http://info.edgehill.ac.uk/SPSNewsletter/article.asp?id_art=24] He is an editor of the journals "Democratiya" and "Engage Journal", the former of which he also helped found.[ http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/alanjohnson] He is a founding member of the human rights organization Labour Friends of Iraq. [ http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/] ]Political positions
Johnson is a co-author of Unite Against Terror [http://www.unite-against-terror.com/] and of the Euston Manifesto [http://eustonmanifesto.org/joomla/] . Johnson was opposed to the invasion of IraqFact|date=August 2008. Since 2003, he has worked with Abdullah Muhsin of the Iraqi Workers Federation. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2007/jun/03/alanjohnson] Johnson writes frequently for the "The Guardian".
Books
* Global Politics After 9/11: The Democratiya Interviews was published by The Foreign Policy Centre in 2007
* Hadi Never Died: Hadi Saleh and the Iraqi Trade Unions (TUC Publications, 2006), co-authored with Abdullah Muhsin
* Leadership and social movements, with Colin Barker and Michael Lavalette, New York : Manchester University Press, 2001.
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