Llewellyn Harry Gould (died 1974), generally known as Harry Gould, was a prominent Australian communist, best known as editor of the ''
Tribune
Tribune () was the title of various elected officials in ancient Rome. The two most important were the tribunes of the plebs and the military tribunes. For most of Roman history, a college of ten tribunes of the plebs acted as a check on th ...
'', the official organ of the
Communist Party of Australia
The Communist Party of Australia (CPA), known as the Australian Communist Party (ACP) from 1944 to 1951, was an Australian political parties, Australian political party founded in 1920. The party existed until roughly 1991, with its membersh ...
(CPA).
History
Gould, who may have been of Jewish descent, was educated at Dublin University.
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He joined the Communist Party in 1934.
By 1937 he was in Sydney working as a ]Workers' Educational Association
The Workers' Educational Association (WEA), founded in 1903, is the UK's largest voluntary sector provider of adult education and one of Britain's biggest charities. The WEA is a democratic and voluntary adult education movement. It delivers lea ...
(WEA) lecturer.
Gould was editor of the Workers’ Weekly and its successor ''Tribune''.
In July 1941 Gould was jailed for 40 days on the basis of WEA material found on a table at the Bondi School of Arts.
He was appointed manager of '' Forward'' which acknowledged its communist affiliation in 1942, when it became a partial replacement for the (banned) ''Tribune''.
In preparation for the CPA being declared illegal, he bought a printing press, which was brought into operation as ''Tribune's'' press in 1942.
He was jailed for three months for membership of the CPA,[ and despite increasing disillusionment with the party in Moscow, retained his membership to the end. He began writing a book about his disappointment, but was killed in a car accident before it was completed.]
Publications
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*A Marxist Glossary (various editions, 1943–1967)
*The Sharkey Writings (c. 1974)
*Art, Science & Communism (1946)
Family
Gould married Diana Maud Reeve in Sydney in 1937. She was a prominent communist, and a regular speaker at "Speakers' corner" in Sydney's Domain. She remained a member and regular contributor until at least 1990. The ''Tribune ''ceased publication on 3 April 1991.
References
External links
Glossary of Marxist Terms
Art Science & Communism
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Communist Party of Australia members
Australian newspaper editors
1974 deaths