Alex Callinicos

Alex Callinicos (born 1950 in South Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)) is a Marxist intellectual (a contradiction in terms) and a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Workers Party. He received his BA and DPhil from the University of Oxford, and was professor of politics at the University of York before recently being appointed professor of European Studies at King's College London. He is a member of the editorial board of International Socialism and British correspondent of Actuel Marx. A prolific writer for both the revolutionary and the academic presses he is a descendant of the famous historian Lord Acton. During the Second World War his father was active in the Greek Resistance to Nazi occupation, his mother, Hon. Ædgyth Bertha Milburg Mary Antonia Frances Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, was a member of the British aristocracy [1]. This file is in the public domain. ... This file is in the public domain. ... Marxism is the political practice and social theory based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ... An intellectual is a person who uses his or her intellect to study, reflect, or speculate on a variety of different ideas. ... A committee is a (relatively) small group that can serve one of several functions: Governance: in organizations too large for all the members to participate in decisions affecting the organization as a whole, a committee (such as a Board of Directors) is given the power to make decisions. ... The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is one of the largest political party of the far left in England. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... This article is about the British university. ... Kings College London in London is the largest and second longest serving member college in the federal University of London, with 21,300 registered students (2003-04). ... International Socialism is a quarterly journal of socialist theory published by the Socialist Workers Party (UK) and currently edited by Chris Harman. ... John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (January 10, 1834 - June 19, 1902), English historian, only son of Sir Richard Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet, and grandson of the Neapolitan admiral, Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet, was born at Naples. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... An ELAS soldier The Greek Resistance is the blanket term for a number of armed and unarmed groups from across the political spectrum that resisted the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II. // Origins The rise of resistance movements in Greece was precipitated by the invasion and occupation of... The term National Socialism has been used in self-description by a number of different political groups and ideologies, some of which have no connection with the Nazis; see National socialism (disambiguation). ...

Callinicos first became involved in revolutionary politics as a student at Balliol College, Oxford, and his first writing for the International Socialists, forerunners of the SWP, was an analysis of the student movement of the period. His later writing soon established him in socialist and academic circles as an expert on southern Africa and the French philosopher Louis Althusser. College name Balliol College Named after John de Balliol Established 1263 Sister College St Johns Master Andrew Graham JCR President Jack Hawkins Undergraduates 403 Graduates 228 Homepage Boatclub Balliol College, founded in 1263, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... Fist Logo The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a revolutionary socialist political party in Britain. ... A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia. ... Louis Pierre Althusser (October 16, 1918 - October 23, 1990) was a Marxist philosopher. ...

A talented writer and speaker, by the early 1980s he was elected to the Central Committee of the SWP, a position he retains today. In recent years he has been responsible for the SWP's international work, but he has seen a number of splits in the International Socialist Tendency's affiliated groups. A committee is a (relatively) small group that can serve one of several functions: Governance: in organizations too large for all the members to participate in decisions affecting the organization as a whole, a committee (such as a Board of Directors) is given the power to make decisions. ... The 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 in the UK, Greece and Ireland. ...

He participated in the Counter-Summit to the IMF/World Bank Meeting in Prague, September 2000 and the demonstration against the G8 in Genoa, June 2001. He has also been involved in organising the Social Forum movement in Europe. This article is about the year 2000. ... The Group of Eight (G8) consists of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and the Russian Federation. ... Location within Italy Christopher Columbus monument in Piazza Aquaverde Genoa (Italian Genova, Genoese Zena, French Gênes, German Genua, Spanish Génova, Galician Xénova) is a city and a seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

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 Review. Other works include; In 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. ...

• 1976: Althusser's Marxism (editor). London: Pluto Press.
• 1982: 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