Joe Allen is a veteran socialist activist and writer from the US. He was radicalised by the Vietnam war and became a socialist in the 1970s. He is the author of The Package King: A Rank and File History of United Parcel Service, Vietnam: The Last War the U.S. Lost, and People Wasn't Made to Burn: A True Story of Housing, Race, and Murder in Chicago. He has written for numerous left-wing publications, with a focus on trade unionism, anti-war activism and the far-right.