Mike Marqusee

Mike Marqusee (born 1953) is an American-born writer, journalist and political activist in London. His partner is the barrister Liz Davies.

Marqusee, who describes himself as a "deracinated New York Marxist Jew" has lived in Britain since 1971. He writes mainly about politics, popular culture, the Indian sub-continent and cricket, and is a regular correspondent for, among others, The Guardian, Red Pepper and The Hindu.

Marqusee has been the editor of Labour Left Briefing, and an executive member of the Stop the War Coalition and the Socialist Alliance . He is a leading figure in Iraq Occupation Focus [1]

Partial bibliography

• If I Am Not for Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew (Verso, 2008). An extract appeared in The Guardian [2]
• Slow Turn (Sphere, 1988) ISBN 978-0747401209
• War Minus the Shooting: a journey through South Asia during cricket’s World Cup (Mandarin, 1997) ISBN 978-0749323332
• Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Inside Kinnock’s Labour Party (co-author with Richard Heffernan) (Verso, 1992) ISBN 978-0860915614
• Chimes of Freedom: the Politics of Bob Dylan’s Art (New Press, 2003) ISBN 978-1565848252
• Anyone but England: An Outsider Looks at English Cricket (Aurum Press, 2005) ISBN 978-1845130848
• Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties (Verso Books, 2005). ISBN 978-1844675272
• Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the Sixties (Seven Stories Press, 2006) ISBN 978-1583226865.
• Imperial whitewash - feelgood versions of British history are blinding us to the ways in which we are even now repeating it in The Guardian, July 31, 2006 [3]

External links

• Mike Marqusee's homepage