Number 2, September, 2000

guest editor: Cath Ellis

This special edition of the Journal of Social Change and Critical Inquiry brings together Marxist scholars from several disciplines working in a range of areas, the result of which is a collective ‘re-thinking’ of the variety of ways Marxist theories can be applied to understanding Australian social and political life. In her Editorial, guest editor Cath Ellis talks in more detail about the themes in this issue and the conference at which it all began.

In One of the Greatest of Our Women’ - Jean Devanny’s Revolutionary Marxism, Carole Ferrier explores the life and times of Jean Devanny and her contribution to revolutionary politics in Australia and New Zealand.

Peter Kirkpatrick looks at Australian working class culture and little-known unionist Ernest Chapman in "Your Tool Box will be Raffled By and By": Poetry and the People in the Railways Union Gazette and Railroad 1921-1935.

Marxist literary theory meets Christianity as Roland Boer examines the work of Ernst Bloch in Marxism and the Bible.

Bronwen Levy contemplates some marxist-feminismt trajectories in New Left Legacies, Marxist-Feminist Ambivalences.

Jock Collins looks at some relationships between ethnicity and enterprise in Australian small businesses in Ethnicity, gender and Australian entrepreneurs: Rethinking Marxist views on Small Business.

What would Marx say about the effect of port development on the global position of labour? Simon Stratton considers this in Marxist Theory, the Globalisation of Port Development, and the Role of Labour.

Damien Cahill reviews Helen Trinca and Anne Davies’ Waterfront: The Battle that Changed Australia.

Cath Ellis looks at the new issue of Re-Thinking Marxism, the journal.

Richard Howson recommends Andrew Gamble, David Marsh and Tony Tant’s Marxism and Social Science.

JoSCCI is the internationally refereed journal of the Institute of Social Change and Critical Inquiry located at the University of Wollongong. It is edited by Angela Pratt. The communications editor and designer is Richard Caladine.