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Alex Callinicos is a Marxist intellectual and a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Workers Party. He is a professor of politics at York University and a member of the editorial board of International Socialism and British correspondent of Actuel Marx. A prolific writer for both the revolutionary and academic presses he is a descendent of Lord Acton the famous historian. His father was active in the Greek Resistance to Nazi occupation during the Second World War.He began his involvement with revolutionary politics as a student and his first writing for the International Socialists, forerunners of the SWP, was an anlysis of the student movement of the period. Born in what is now Zimbabwe he rapidly became known in socialist and academic circles for his writings on Southern Africa and his interest in the views of French philosopher Louis Althusser.
He is a talented writer and speaker and was soon elected to the Central Committee of the SWP, a position he has retained to this day. In recent years he has been responsible for the SWP's international work, during which time there have been a number of splits in the International Socialist TendencyThe International Socialist Tendency is an international grouping of organisations around the ideas of Tony Cliff, founder of the Socialist Workers Party in the UK. It has sections across the world, however its strongest presence is in Europe, especially's affiliated groups.
He participated in the Counter-Summit to the IMF/World Bank Meeting in Prague, September 2000This page is about the year 2000. See 2000 AD for the UK comic book, Number 2000 for other uses. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar), and also the International Year for a Culture of Peace''. Events Y2K passes without the seri and the demonstration against the G8The Group of Eight G8 is the coalition of eight of the world's leading industrialized nations: the United Kingdom, France, Germany ( West Germany to 1991), Italy, Japan, and the United States, (the G6, 1975), Canada (the G7, 1976), and Russia (first known in GenoaAlternate uses, see Genoa (disambiguation). Genoa ( Italian Genova (jen'o-vah), Genoese Zena (zay'nah), French Genes is a city and a seaport in northern Italy, the capital of Liguria. It has a population of ca. Genua was a city of the ancient Ligurians., June 20012001 is a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall ap.
He is a contributor to J. Bidet and E. Kouvelakis, eds., Dictionnaire Marx Contemporain (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2001), and has written a number of articles in New Left ReviewIn 1960 in the UK, the editors of the New Reasoner and the Universities and Left Review merged their boards and formed the New Left Review''. The Universities and Left Review grew out of the Suez crisis in 1956; their journal centred on a rejection of the. Other works include;
- 19761976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). Events January January 12 UN Security Council votes 11-1 to admit the Palestinian Liberation Organization January 15 Would-be Gerald Ford presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore is s: Althusser's Marxism (editor). London: Pluto Press.
- 1982Events January January 6 William Bonin is convicted of being the "freeway killer". January 8 AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, disappears in the Sahara du: Is There a Future for Marxism?. London: Macmillan.
- 1983: Marxism and Philosophy (Oxford Paperbacks). Oxford: Clarendon.
- 1989: Marxist Theory (Oxford Readings in Politics & Government S.) (editor). Oxford: Oxford university press.
- 1990: Trotskyism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
- 1991: Against Postmodernism: a Marxist critique. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- 2000: Equality (Themes for the 21st Century S.). Cambridge: Polity Press.
- 2002: Against The Third Way. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Marxism & The New Imperialism
- The Revolutionary Ideas Of Karl Marx
- Theories And Narratives
- An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
- New Mandarins of American Power: The Bush Administration's Plans for the World
- The Anti-Capitalist Movement And The Revolutionary Left
- Making History: Agency, Structure, and Change in Social Theory (Historical Materialism Book Series, 3)
- Social Theory:Historical Introduction
- Theories And Narratives: Reflections On The Philosphy Of History
- The Changing Working Class: Essays on Class Structure Today (with Chris Harman)
- The Revenge of History: Marxism and the East European Revolutions
- The Revolutionary Road to Socialism
- Race and Class
- Against the Third Way
- Socialists in the Trade Unions
- Southern Africa After Soweto (with John Rogers)
- Southern Africa After Zimbabwe
- The Great Strike: the Miner's Strike
- South Africa: The Road to Revolution
- Between Apartheid and Capitalism: Conversations with South African Socialists (editor)
- South Africa Between Reform and Revolution
Callinicos, Alex
