Tobias Abse is a historian. He was a lecturer in the subject at Goldsmiths College of the University of London from 1994 to 2016. Abse has written extensively on the rise of the fascism in Italy prior to World War II. He has been a member of the Socialist Alliance National Executive, the Alliance for Green Socialism National Committee, the Socialist History Society committee, and the Revolutionary History editorial board and is a regular contributor to British socialist newspapers and magazines. He was a founder member of Lewisham People Before Profit.