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Tom O'Lincoln

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Tom O'Lincoln
Born(1947-08-27)27 August 1947
Died12 October 2023(2023-10-12) (aged 76)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
OccupationHistorian
Known forAustralian labor history
Political partySocialist Alternative
Victorian Socialists

Tom O'Lincoln (27 August 1947 − 12 October 2023) was an American-Australian 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[broken anchor] 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

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

Selected books

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Selected articles

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References

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  1. ^ Stone, Janey (23 October 2023). "Vale Tom O'Lincoln: a life worth living". Red Flag.
  2. ^ "Vale Tom O'Lincoln". Twitter. Victorian Socialists.
  3. ^ "Who’s who on this site", Marxist interventions (2009). Accessed 3 July 2009.
  4. ^ "Highlights" Marxism 2009. Accessed: 3 July 2009.
  5. ^ Rintoul, Ian (15 October 2023). "Vale Tom O'Lincoln". Solidarity Online. Solidarity.
  6. ^ "Marxist interventions 1, 2009" Marxist interventions, 2009. Accessed: 3 July 2009.
  7. ^ "Tom O'Lincoln". Deaths & Funerals. Retrieved 13 October 2023.