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 the International Marxist Group, he is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor of Historical Studies at The 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" (with Perry Anderson) (1966)
*"The incompatibles : trade union militancy and the consensus" (with Alexander Cockburn)(1967)
*"Student power : problems, diagnosis, action" (edited with Alexander Cockburn) (1969)
*"Strategy for revolution" [essays by Regis 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] (with Tariq 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)
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