Rick Kuhn is an Australian Marxist economist, political analyst and reader at the Australian National University

Australian National University

The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...

 in Canberra

Canberra

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. He is best known for his biographical study on Henryk Grossman

Henryk Grossman

Henryk Grossmanalternative spelling: Henryk Grossmann , was a Polish-German economist and historian of Jewish descent....

, for which he won the Deutscher Memorial Prize

Deutscher Memorial Prize

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 in 2007. Chris Harman

Chris Harman

Chris Harman was a British journalist and political activist, and a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Workers Party...

 of the British

Great Britain

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 Socialist Workers Party

Socialist Workers Party (Britain)

The Socialist Workers Party is a far left party in Britain founded by Tony Cliff. The SWP's student section has groups at a number of universities...

 and editor of International Socialism said of the biography: "Grossman is an important part of our heritage... Kuhn's volume is 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

Anti-war

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 organisation in Canberra, formed in response to the wars on Afghanistan

War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

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 and Iraq. He is also a long-term member of the Trotskyist organisation Socialist Alternative

Socialist Alternative (Australia)

Socialist Alternative is a Trotskyist political organisation in Australia formed by an expulsion from the former International Socialist Organisation in 1995. It is one of the largest groups of the Australian far Left, claiming to have the largest active membership. With branches across...

 and an editor of the online journal Marxist Interventions. Kuhn has published articles in Socialist Alternative, International Socialist Review

International Socialist Review

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, Socialist Worker, Monthly Review

Monthly Review

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, CounterPunch

Counterpunch

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, ZNet and The Canberra Times

The Canberra Times

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.

Selected books

• Labor's Conflict: Big Business, Workers and the Politics of Class, (with Tom Bramble
  Tom Bramble
  Tom Bramble is a long-term socialist activist and author based in Queensland, Australia. He is a senior lecturer in Industrial Relations at the University of Queensland. He holds a Ph.D. from La Trobe University in the same field and won the University medal in Economics from the University of...
  
  ), 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
  Tom O'Lincoln
  Tom O'Lincoln is an American born Marxist historian, author and one of the founders of the International Socialist Tendency in Australia. He attended UC Berkeley in 1966 and joined the International Socialists who had participated in the Free Speech Movement two years earlier...
  
  ) 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.
• The threat of fascism in Austria, Monthly Review.
• 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.