Tom O'Lincoln (27 August 1947 − 12 October 2023) was an American-Australian Marxist historian, author and one of the founders of the International Socialist Tendency in Australia.[2][3] 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 Carnation Revolution in Portugal, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, the Philippines after the downfall of Ferdinand Marcos, the USSR under Mikhail Gorbachev, and the upheavals[broken anchor] against Suharto in Indonesia.[4] He was a member of the Trotskyist organisation Socialist Alternative,[5] as well as its electoral alliance party Victorian Socialists,[citation needed] and an editor of the online journal Marxist Interventions.[6]
Tom O'Lincoln | |
|---|---|
| Born | 27 August 1947 |
| Died | 12 October 2023 (aged 76) |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Known for | Australian labor history |
| Political party | Socialist Alternative Victorian Socialists |
Death
editO'Lincoln died on 12 October 2023,[where?] at the age of 76, after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.[7]
Selected books
edit- 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
edit- Why there's nothing good about Australian nationalism, Socialist Alternative, Edition 124, January 2008.
External links
editReferences
edit- ^ Stone, Janey (23 October 2023). "Vale Tom O'Lincoln: a life worth living". Red Flag.
- ^ "Vale Tom O'Lincoln". Twitter. Victorian Socialists.
- ^ "Who’s who on this site", Marxist interventions (2009). Accessed 3 July 2009.
- ^ "Highlights" Marxism 2009. Accessed: 3 July 2009.
- ^ Rintoul, Ian (15 October 2023). "Vale Tom O'Lincoln". Solidarity Online. Solidarity.
- ^ "Marxist interventions 1, 2009" Marxist interventions, 2009. Accessed: 3 July 2009.
- ^ "Tom O'Lincoln". Deaths & Funerals. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
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