Introduction
Rick Kuhn (born 18 September 1955) is an Australian Marxian economist, political analyst and reader at the Australian National University in Canberra. He is best known for his biographical study on Henryk Grossman, for which he won the Deutscher Memorial Prize in 2007. Chris Harman of the British Socialist Workers Party and editor of International Socialism described the biography as "a valuable addition to our theoretical armour." Kuhn is of Jewish origin and is a member of Jews Against Oppression and Occupation. He was the convenor of ACTNOW, the umbrella anti-war organisation in Canberra, formed in response to the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq. He is also a long-term member of the Trotskyist organisation Socialist Alternative and was a founding editor of the online journal Marxist Interventions. Kuhn has published articles in Socialist Alternative, International Socialist Review, Socialist Worker, New Matilda, Monthly Review, CounterPunch, ZNet, The Canberra Times and various academic journals and edited collections.
Selected books
- Labor's Conflict: Big Business, Workers and the Politics of Class, (with Tom Bramble), Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2010.
- Henryk Grossman and the recovery of Marxism, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2007.
- Class and Struggle in Australia, (edited) Pearson Education Australia, Melbourne, 2005.
- Class & class conflict in Australia, (edited with Tom O'Lincoln) Longman Australia, Melbourne, 1996.
Selected articles
- 'Israel the hijack state', Socialist Alternative.
- 'Economic crisis and the responsibility of socialists', International Socialist Review.
- 'Bush ally goes down in Australian election', Socialist Worker.
- 'Labor Myths In The Making', New Matilda.
- 'Australian Government Steps Up Attacks on Muslims', Monthly Review.
- 'The things that divided us', ZNet.
- 'Wage earners shoulder big burden in inflation fight', The Canberra Times.
- 'Xenophobic racism and class during the Howard years', Marxist Interventions (e-journal).
- 'Capital development', Socialist Review.
- 'Jüdischer Antizionismus in der sozialistischen Bewegung Galiziens' translated by Rosemarie Nünning, PaRDeS Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien.