Tom O'Lincoln

Tom O'Lincoln is an United States born Marxist historian, author and one of the founders of the International Socialist Tendency in Australia.^[1] He attended UC Berkeley in 1966 and joined the International Socialists who had participated in the Free Speech Movement two years earlier. He has produced first-hand accounts of the 1974-5 revolution in Portugal, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, the Philippines after the downfall of Ferdinand Marcos, the USSR under Mikhail Gorbachev, and the upheavals against Suharto in Indonesia.^[2] He is currently a member of the Trotskyist organisation Socialist Alternative, as well as its electoral alliance party Victorian Socialists, and an editor of the online journal Marxist Interventions.^[3]

Selected books[]

• The Highway is for Gamblers: A Political Memoir, with Janey Stone, Interventions. Melbourne, 2017,
• Neighbour from Hell, Interventions, Melbourne, 2014.
• Australia's Pacific War: Challenging a National Myth, Interventions, Melbourne, 2011.
• Rebel Women in Australian Working Class History, (Co-editor with Sandra Bloodworth), Red Rag, Melbourne, 2008.
• United We Stand: Class Struggle in Colonial Australia, Red Rag, Melbourne, 2005.
• Class and Class Conflict in Australia, (Co-editor with Rick Kuhn) Longman Australia, Melbourne, 1996.
• Years of Rage: Social Conflicts in the Fraser Era, Bookmarks Australia, Melbourne, 1993.
• Into the Mainstream: The Decline of Australian Communism, Stained Wattle Press, Sydney 1985.

Selected articles[]

• Why there's nothing good about Australian nationalism, Socialist Alternative, Edition 124, January 2008.
• Trade unions and revolutionary oppositions: a survey of classic Marxist writings^{[permanent dead link]}, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Australian National University, 2008.

External links[]

• Tom O'Lincoln's website

References[]

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