Rick Kuhn

 ( 1955 Births ) 

Rick Kuhn (born 18 September 1955) is an Australian Marxian economist, political analyst and reader at the Australian National University in Canberra. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> Rick Kuhn: curriculum vitae Australian National University. Australian unions boost campaign against Rudd laws Reuters, 15 June 2009. Accessed: 3 July 2009. He is best known for his biographical study on Henryk Grossman, for which he won the Deutscher Memorial Prize in 2007. Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism The Deutscher Prize Web Site. Accessed: 3 July 2009. Chris Harman of the Great Britain Socialist Workers Party and editor of International Socialism described the biography as "a valuable addition to our theoretical armour." Forgotten treasure: a new biography of Grossman International Socialism, Issue: 114, 10 April 2007. Accessed: 2 September 2010. Kuhn is of Jewish origin and is a member of Jews Against Oppression and Occupation. Israel the hijack state Socialist Alternative, 106, 25 August 2006. Accessed: 3 July 2009. He was the convenor of ACTNOW, the umbrella anti-war organisation in Canberra, formed in response to the wars on Afghanistan Outrage at police spying on anti-war protest Green Left Weekly, 24 October 2001. Accessed: 2 September 2010. and Iraq War. Thousands protest against looming Iraq action ABC News, 15 February 2003. Accessed: 2 September 2010. He is also a long-term member of the Trotskyist organisation Socialist Alternative The Music of Industrial Relations and the Reality of the Australian Labor Party MRZine, 2 May 2007. Accessed: 2 July 2009. and was a founding editor of the online journal Marxist Interventions. Marxist interventions 1, 2009 Marxist interventions, 2009. Accessed: 3 July 2009. Kuhn has published articles in Socialist Alternative, International Socialist Review, Economic crisis and the responsibility of socialists International Socialist Review, Issue 68, November–December 2009. Accessed: 17 February 2010. Socialist Worker, Bush ally goes down in Australian election Socialist Worker, 7 December 2007. Accessed: 17 February 2010. New Matilda, Labor Myths In The Making New Matilda, 6 December 2010. Accessed: 21 November 2013. Monthly Review, Class and Inflation in Australia Monthly Review, 2 August 2008. Accessed: 17 February 2010. ZNet, The things that divided us ZNet, 9 May 2005. Accessed: 17 February 2010. The Canberra Times Wage earners shoulder big burden in inflation fight The Canberra Times, 8 February 2008. Accessed: 17 February 2010 and various academic journals and edited collections. Rick Kuhn: publications. Accessed: 11 December 2011

• 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.

• Rick Kuhn's website