Tom O'Lincoln

Tom O'Lincoln is an American 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 and an editor of the online journal Marxist Interventions.^[3]

Selected books

• 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, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Australian National University, 2008.

External links

• Tom O'Lincoln's website

References

1. "Who’s who on this site" Marxist interventions, 2009. Accessed: July 3, 2009.
2. "Highlights" Marxism 2009. Accessed: July 3, 2009.
3. "Marxist interventions 1, 2009" Marxist interventions, 2009. Accessed: July 3, 2009.