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Frank Furedi (born 1948 in Hungary) is professor of sociology at the University of Kent, UK. Under the pseudonym Frank Richards, he was the founder and chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) of Great Britain, a left-wing political party which was expelled from the International Socialists in the 1970s, styling itself as the Revolutionary Opposition. He is the husband of Ann Furedi, the Chief Executive of BPAS, the UK's largest independent abortion provider.

Furedi's family emigrated from Hungary to Canada after the failed 1956 uprising. He has lived in Britain since the 1970s.

The RCP published a newspaper The Next Step throughout the 1980s and the magazine Living Marxism (later relaunched as "LM") in the 1990s. Still under Furedi's guidance, the ex-RCP came to concentrate on anti-imperialist and anti-statist traditions in Marxism.

He continues to be one of the leading figures of the LM group and has often been characterised by the media and various green campaign groups as an anti-environmentalist and pro-GM extremist. His supporters maintain that Furedi has said little on environmentalism, other than pointing out its "neo-Malthusian tendencies" and "anti-humanist excesses".

Furedi's academic work is largely in the area of imperialism and development studies – his books on the subject include The Mau-Mau war in Perspective, The New Ideology of Imperialism and The Silent War: Imperialism and the Changing Perception of Race.

Furedi is frequently quoted in the media as an expert on how some Western societies have become obsessed with risk. He writes regularly for Spiked Online. He has also written several books on the subject of risk, offering a counterpoint to the analyses of Anthony Giddens and Ulrich Beck, including Paranoid Parenting, Therapy Culture, and Culture of Fear.

He wrote an article about risk culture post September 11, one of several publications from the charity Global Futures.

During his LM / RCP days, he is alleged to have written under the pseudonyms Frank Richards and Linda Ryan.

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