Ian Parker is a psychoanalyst and Marxist in Manchester, doing clinical work through The Red Clinic, and political work through Anti-Capitalist Resistance and academic work through the Discourse Unit. His book (co-authored with David Pavón-Cuéllar) Psychoanalysis and Revolution has been published in many languages.

His latest book is Stalinist Realism and Open Communism: Malignant Mirror or Free Association.