- Robin Blackburn
Robin Blackburn (born 1940) is a British socialist historian, a former editor of "
New Left Review " (1981-99), and author of a number of works on Marxism and the history of Slavery in the New World. He was educated at Oxford and the LSE. A former member of theInternational Marxist Group , he is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor of Historical Studies atThe New School for Social Research in New York City and Professor of Sociology at Essex University.elected works/articles
*"Prologue to the Cuban revolution" (1963)
*"Towards socialism / edited for the "New Left Review" (withPerry Anderson ) (1966)
*"The incompatibles : trade union militancy and the consensus" (withAlexander Cockburn )(1967)
*"Student power : problems, diagnosis, action" (edited withAlexander Cockburn ) (1969)
*"Strategy for revolution" [essays byRegis Debray translated from the French] (editor) (1970)
*"Ideology in social science : readings in critical social theory" (editor) (1972)
*"Explosion in a subcontinent : India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Ceylon" (editor) (1975)
*"Revolution and class struggle : a reader in Marxist politics" (editor) (1977)
*"The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848" (1988)
*"After the fall : the failure of communism and the future of socialism" (editor) (1991)
*"Abolition and emancipation in comparative perspective" (1992)
*"The making of New World slavery : from the baroque to the modern, 1492-1800" (1997)
*"Banking on Death: Or, Investing in Life — The History and Future of Pensions" (2002)
* "Age Shock and Pension Power: Grey Capital and the Challenge of the Aging Society" (2007)External links
* [http://www.robinblackburn.org/ Homepage]
* [http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/robin_blackburn/profile.html Guardian profile]
* [http://www.counterpunch.org/lennon12082005.html John Lennon interview] (withTariq Ali ) (1971)
* [http://www.essex.ac.uk/sociology/people/staff/blackburn.shtm Essex University homepage]
* [http://www.newschool.edu/NSSR/faculty.aspx?id=15958&DeptFilter=NSSR+Historical+Studies New School for Social Research (New York) Homepage"]
* [http://www.marxists.de/statecap/cuba/robinb.htm "Class forces in the Cuban Revolution"] book review in "International Socialism" 2:9, (1980)
* [http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj86/blackburn.htm "Reviewing the millennia"] , book review in "International Socialism", 2:86 (Spring 2000)
* [http://www.isj.org.uk/index.php4?id=332&issue=115 "What really ended slavery?"] , an interview with Blackburn in International Socialism, 2:115 (summer 2007)
*worldcat id|lccn-n50-8574
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