Jonathan White taught and researched in history at the Universities of Warwick and Southampton before becoming a trade union official. He is the editor and a contributor to Building an Economy for the People: an alternative economic and political strategy for 21st century Britain, published by Manifesto Press (2012) and wrote the introduction to a recent volume on State Monopoly Capitalism, also published by Manifesto Press in 2019. He is an occasional contributor to the Morning Star and is a trustee of the Marx Memorial Library, Associate Editor of its journal Theory and Struggle and he regularly teaches and lectures at the Library's Workers' School.