Tom O'Lincoln

Tom O'Lincoln (27 August 1947 − 12 October 2023) was an American-Australian Marxist historian and author, and one of the founders of the International Socialist Tendency in Australia.^[2][3]

O'Lincoln attended UC Berkeley in 1966 and joined the International Socialists who had participated in the Free Speech Movement two years earlier. He wrote 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, and an editor of the online journal Marxist Interventions.^[6]

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

• Into the Mainstream: The Decline of Australian Communism, Stained Wattle Press, Sydney 1985.
• Years of Rage: Social Conflicts in the Fraser Era, Bookmarks Australia, Melbourne, 1993.
• Class and Class Conflict in Australia, (Co-editor with Rick Kuhn) Longman Australia, Melbourne, 1996.
• United We Stand: Class Struggle in Colonial Australia, Red Rag, Melbourne, 2005.
• Rebel Women in Australian Working Class History, (Co-editor with Sandra Bloodworth), Red Rag, Melbourne, 2008.
• Australia's Pacific War: Challenging a National Myth, Interventions, Melbourne, 2011.
• Neighbour from Hell, Interventions, Melbourne, 2014.
• The Highway is for Gamblers: A Political Memoir, with Janey Stone, Interventions. Melbourne, 2017.

• Why there's nothing good about Australian nationalism, Socialist Alternative, Edition 124, January 2008.
• "'Kill or be killed'". Overland. 194: 64–72. Autumn 2009.

• Tom O'Lincoln's website