Ο John Newsinger είναι βρετανός μαρξιστής καθηγητής ιστορίας στο Bath Spa University. Είναι συγγραφέας πολλών βιβλίων ανάμεσα στα οποία: "Fenianism in Mid-Victorian Britain" (1994), "Dangerous Men" (1997), "Shaking the World" (1999), "Orwell' s Politics" (1999), "United Irishman: The Memoirs of James Hope" (2000), "British Counterinsurgency: from Palestine to Northern Ireland" (2002), "Rebel City: Larkin, Connoly and the Dublin Labour Movement" (2004), "The Blood Never Dried: A People' s History of the British Empire" (2006).