Tom O'Lincoln is a United States born Marxist historian, author and one of the founders of the

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in Australia. He attended

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in 1966 and joined the International Socialists who had participated in the

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two years earlier. He has produced first-hand accounts of the 1974-5 revolution in

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, the

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, the

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after the downfall of Ferdinand Marcos, the

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under Mikhail Gorbachev, and the upheavals against Suharto in

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. He is currently a member of the

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organisation Socialist Alternative, as well as its

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party

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, and an editor of the online journal ''Marxist Interventions''."Marxist interventions 1, 2009"
''Marxist interventions'', 2009. Accessed: July 3, 2009.

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.

(Co-editor with Sandra Bloodworth), ''Red Rag'', Melbourne, 2008.
United We Stand: Class Struggle in Colonial Australia
''Red Rag'', Melbourne, 2005.

(Co-editor with

Rick Kuhn Rick Kuhn (born 18 September 1955) is an Australian Marxian economist, political analyst and reader at the Australian National University in Canberra. He is best known for his biographical study on Henryk Grossman, for which he won the Deutscher ...

) ''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.

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

External links

Tom O'Lincoln's website

References

Living people Australian Trotskyists Activists from Melbourne Marxist writers Labor historians Year of birth missing (living people) American emigrants to Australia University of California, Berkeley alumni International Socialist Tendency {{Australia-writer-stub