Sandra Bloodworth facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Sandra Bloodworth
Political party	Socialist Alternative Victorian Socialists

Sandra Bloodworth is a labour historian and socialist activist, based in Melbourne, 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 movements. She is one of the founding members of the Trotskyist organisation Socialist Alternative, in which she plays a leading role. She is also a member of the editorial board of Marxist Left Review as well as having authored several books from a Marxist perspective on the Russian Revolution, the global financial crisis, women's struggles, working class resistance in the Middle East and Australian imperialism.

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.