Alex Callinicos

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Alex Callinicos (born 1950 in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)) is a Marxist intellectual 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 being appointed Professor of European Studies at King's College London in 2005. 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 was a member of the British aristocracy [1].

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. 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.

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. 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. In Redemption, Tariq Ali's satire on the Trotskyist movement, he is depicted as the redundant intellectual "Alex Mango".

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• 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
• 2003: Theories and Narratives (Cambridge: Polity Press).
• 2003An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto (Cambridge: Polity Press).
• New Mandarins of American Power: The Bush Administration's Plans for the World (Cambridge: Polity Press).
• 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
• The Changing Working Class: Essays on Class Structure Today (with Chris Harman)
• The 'New Middle Class' and socialists (1983)
• The Revenge of History: Marxism and the East European Revolutions
• The Revolutionary Road to Socialism
• 1995: Race and Class (London: Bookmark Publications).
• 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
• The grand strategy of the American Empire
• Plumbing the depths: Marxism and the Holocaust
• 2006: The Resources of Critique