Alex Callinicos
Alexander Theodore Callinicos (born 24 July 1950, Southern Rhodesia - now Zimbabwe) is a Trotskyist political theorist, a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Workers Party and its International Secretary, and is Director of the Centre for European Studies at King's College London. He is also editor of International Socialism, the Socialist Workers Party's theoretical journal.
Biography
Callinicos is a descendant, through his mother, of the 19th century English historian Lord Acton. During World War II his Greek father was active in the Greek Resistance to Nazi occupation, whilst his mother, the Hon. Ædgyth Bertha Milburg Mary Antonia Frances Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, was the daughter of the 2nd Lord Acton.[1] He was educated at St George's College, Harare.
Callinicos himself first became involved in revolutionary politics as a student at Balliol College, Oxford, from which he received his BA. His first writings for the International Socialists (forerunners of the SWP) were an analysis of the student movement of the period. In 1977, Callinicos married Joanna Seddon,[1] a fellow Oxford doctoral student. He received his DPhil at Oxford.
His early writings focused on southern Africa and the French structuralist-Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser. In the 1980s, Callinicos was elected to the central committee of the SWP, a position he still retains.
Callinicos 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 was a contributor to Dictionnaire Marx Contemporain (2001),[2] and has written a number of articles in New Left Review.
He was Professor of Politics at the University of York before being appointed Professor of European Studies at King's College London in September 2005. He succeeded the late Chris Harman as editor of International Socialism in January 2010 and is a British correspondent for Actuel Marx.
Works
Books
- 1976: Althusser's Marxism (London: Pluto Press) ISBN 0-904383-02-4
- 1977: Southern Africa after Soweto (with John Rogers) (London: Pluto Press), ISBN 0-904383-42-3
- 1981: Southern Africa after Zimbabwe (London: Pluto) ISBN 0-86104-336-7
- 1982: Is there a future for Marxism? (London: Macmillan). ISBN 0-333-28477-1
- 1983: Marxism and Philosophy (Oxford Paperbacks) (Oxford: Clarendon). ISBN 0-19-876126-0
- 1983: The revolutionary ideas of Karl Marx (London: Bookmarks). ISBN 0-906224-09-8
- 1985: South Africa: the Road to Revolution (Toronto: International Socialists). ISBN 0-905998-55-3
- 1985: The Great Strike : the miners’ strike of 1984-5 and its lessons (London: Socialist Worker) ISBN 0-905998-50-2
- 1986: The Revolutionary Road to Socialism (London: Socialist Workers Party). ISBN 0-905998-53-7
- 1987: The Changing Working Class: Essays on Class Structure Today (with Chris Harman) (London: Bookmarks) ISBN 0-906224-40-3
- 1988: South Africa Between Reform and Revolution (London: Bookmarks). ISBN 0-906224-46-2
- 1988: Making History: Agency, Structure, and Change in Social Theory (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press). ISBN 0-8014-2121-7
- 1989: Marxist Theory (editor) (Oxford: Oxford University Press). ISBN 0-19-827294-4
- 1990: Trotskyism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press). ISBN 0-8166-1904-2
- 1991: The Revenge of History: Marxism and the East European Revolutions ISBN 0-271-00767-2
- 1991: Against Postmodernism: a Marxist critique (Cambridge: Polity Press). ISBN 0-312-04224-8
- 1992: Between Apartheid and Capitalism: conversations with South African socialists (editor) (London: Bookmarks). ISBN 0-906224-68-3
- 1994: Marxism and the New Imperialism (London ; Chicago, Ill. : Bookmarks). ISBN 0-906224-81-0
- 1995: Theories and Narratives (Cambridge: Polity Press). ISBN 0-7456-1201-6
- 1995: Race and Class (London: Bookmark Publications). ISBN 0-906224-83-7
- 1995: Socialists in the trade unions (London: Bookmarks) ISBN 1-898876-01-0
- 1999: Social Theory: Historical Introduction (New York: New York University Press). ISBN 0-8147-1593-1
- 2000: Equality (Themes for the 21st Century) (Cambridge: Polity Press). ISBN 0-7456-2324-7
- 2002: Against the Third Way (Cambridge: Polity Press). ISBN 0-7456-2674-2
- 2003: An anti-Capitalist manifesto (Cambridge: Polity Press). ISBN 0-7456-2903-2
- 2003: New Mandarins of American Power: the Bush administration’s plans for the world (Cambridge: Polity Press). ISBN 0-7456-3274-2
- 2006: The Resources of Critique (Cambridge: Polity). ISBN 0-7456-3160-6
- 2009: Imperialism and Global Political Economy (Cambridge, Polity). ISBN 0-7456-4045-1
- 2010: Bonfire of Illusions: The Twin Crises of the Liberal World (Polity). ISBN 0-7456-4876-2
Articles
References
- ^ a b The Peerage.com
- ^ J. Bidet and E. Kouvelakis, eds., Dictionnaire Marx Contemporain Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2001
External links
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24 July 1950 |
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Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia |
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