Sandra Bloodworth is a
labour historian and
socialist
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activist, based in
Melbourne
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,
Australia. She has been involved in radical politics since the 1970s,
where she has played roles in the
women's,
Aboriginal,
anti-uranium mining and
trade union
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movements.
She is one of the founding members of the
Trotskyist
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organisation
Socialist Alternative, in which she plays a leading role. She is also the former editor of ''Marxist Left Review''
as well as having authored several books from a
Marxist perspective on the
Russian Revolution, the
global financial crisis
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Entertainment
* ''Global'' (Paul van Dyk album), 2003
* ''Global'' (Bunji Garlin album), 2007
* ''Global'' (Humanoid album), 1989
* ''Global'' (Todd Rundgren album), 2015
* Bruno ...
,
[ women's struggles, ]working class
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resistance in the Middle East
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and Australian imperialism.[
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Selected books
A crime beyond denunciation : a Marxist analysis of capitalist economic crisis
''Socialist Alternative'', Melbourne, 2008.
How workers took power : the 1917 Russian Revolution
''Socialist Alternative'', Melbourne, 2008.
Selected articles
“Sorry is the first step” Australia’s new labor government issues an apology to the aboriginal population
''International Socialist Review'', Issue 58, 2008.
The poverty of patriarchy theory
(Originally published in ''Socialist Review'' (Australian), Issue 2, 1990), ''Socialist Alternative'', 2008.
External links
Socialist Alternative
Online magazine
Standing up to capitalism and war
Audio file of speech delivered at ''Marxism 2008''
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Australian women's rights activists
Australian Trotskyists
Activists from Melbourne
Australian Marxist writers
Australian socialist feminists
Labor historians
Australian anti–nuclear power activists
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