Rick Kuhn, is a senior lecturer in the Political Science Department at the Australian National University, where he teaches Australian political economy, German and Austrian politics, and classical Marxism. Class and Class Conflict in Australia, edited by Tom O'Lincoln and Rick Kuhn, was published in 1996. At present Rick is working on a biography of Henryk Grossmann and a history of the economic thought of the Australian left. His political practice is shaped by a commitment to international socialism and he is a union militant.