Tom O'Lincoln

Australian historian (1947–2023)

Tom O'Lincoln
Born	(1947-08-27)27 August 1947 Walnut Creek, California, United States^[1]
Died	12 October 2023(2023-10-12) (aged 76)
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Occupation	Historian
Known for	Australian labor history
Political party	Socialist Alternative Victorian Socialists

Tom O'Lincoln (27 August 1947 − 12 October 2023) was an American 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 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]

Death

O'Lincoln died on 12 October 2023,^[where?] at the age of 76, after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.^[7]

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.

External links

Tom O'Lincoln's website

References

^ 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.