Tom O'Lincoln's writings
If it's online, I've put in a link. If it's not online I've given publication details. Many of these are at the Marxist Interventions site. If you want to see that site as a whole, click here.
Books in English
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.
United We Stand: Class Struggle in Colonial Australia, Red Rag, Melbourne, 2005.
(Co-edited with Sandra Bloodworth), Rebel Women in Australian Working Class History, Red Rag, Melbourne, 2008.
(Co-edited with Rick Kuhn) Class and Class Conflict in Australia, Longman Australia, Melbourne, 1996. My chapter from this book, on the ruling class, is online.
Books in Indonesian (under the pseudonym "Julian" - all of this material, in slightly different form, is available here).
Karl Marx: Aku Bukan Marxis (translation of John Molyneux, "What is the Real Marxist Tradition"), Teplok Press, Jakarta, 2000.
Co-authored with Setiabudi: Sosialisme Revolusioner: Gagasan, Strategi dan Taktik (a collection of articles on socialist politics), Kelompok Kerja Bersama, Solo, 2000.
Co-authored with Setiabudi: Mereka Menyebutnya Globalisasi (translation of Chris Harman, "Anti-capitalism: Theory and Practice"), Sumbu Press, Yogyakarta, 2002.
Articles and book chapters on...
Aborigines
Aboriginal struggle 1976-82. This is about the period of the Fraser government. It's excerpted from Years of Rage.
Women
Sex, class and the road to women's suffrage in Australia. My chapter on women in the book United We Stand.
Against the Stream: Women on the Australian Left 1945-68. This is my chapter in the book Rebel Women.
The Queensland abortion struggle, 1979-80, excerpted from my book Years of Rage.
Australian trade union history
The Minority Movement. How the Communist Party organised rank and file workers in the 1930s.
See also the first three chapters in United We Stand.
Australian imperialism
Australian imperialism in the colonial era.
Australian militarism. The 2000 Defence White Paper reviewed.
"Off The Leash: Australia is More Than A Lapdog", in Politics and Culture, Issue 4, 2003.
"The New Australian Militarism", Socialist Review No 4, Winter 1991.
"Why Did Australia Attack Iraq?", Revolution, No 21, Christchurch, August-October 2003.
"The Neighbour From Hell: Australian imperialism", in Rick Kuhn (ed) Class and Struggle in Australia, Pearson Longman, Frenchs Forest, 2005
Misc Australian
The Australian ruling class in the early 1990s.
Anti-nuclear campaigns
The Roots of Radicalism Review of Terry Irving's The Southern Tree of Liberty, about the working class and the origins of democracy in NSW.
Bushrangers. Desperados with political implications.
Convict rebellions in colonial Australia.
Is Howard Unbeatable?" OK, we know the answer now. The article's continuing relevance is as a summary of resistance to right wing governments.
With Rick Kuhn: "Profitability and Economic Crisis", Journal of Australian Political Economy, no. 25, October 1989. The tendency of the rate of profit to fall, in the Australian context.
Theory
Trade unions and revolutionary oppositions. A survey of classic Marxist writings.
Marx and Lenin on the "National Question". A short summary.
What is capital?
A talk on dialectics given in the early 1980s.
A talk on the Marxist theory of economic crisis, given in 1991 (updated 1994).
Asia-Pacific
New dangers in Australian politics posed by the Australian intervention in East Timor, 1999.
Indonesia: From "Reformasi" to Reaction. Discussion of Suharto's fall and what came after
Poem: Rendra predicts Suharto's fall. My translation.
Five short articles about crises in East Timor and the Pacific and the role of Australian imperialism, written during 2006-7.
A set of Indonesian language writings are also online.
Latin America
A South American Revolutionary. Jose Carlos Mariátegui and Peruvian socialism.
Nicaragua: The Revolution in 1985. Something I wrote after visiting the country.
"Cuba At the Crossroads", Reconstruction No 2, July 1994.
Other international
Notes on Islam.
Gorbachev and the Fate of Socialism. My take on Gorby at the time.
Translation: "Answers of a Historian" by Yurii Afanasiev with my introduction. Was the USSR socialist? And what does socialism really mean?
Environmental
Sustainable Revolutions is a review essay, discussing three books about the environmental crisis.
The International Socialists in Australia
Marching Down Marx Street. A history covering 1972-92. Rtf format.
Arguments I made inside the International Socialist Organisation (Pdf format):
The first set was written at the end of 2001.
The second and third were written in late 2002.
Book reviews
"What's Wrong with 'Disarmament Feminism'", Review of Over Our Dead Bodies and Brian Easley's Fathering the Unthinkable, in Hecate 10 (1) 1984.
"Studies in Scarlet", Review of Oriel Gray's Exit Left and Audrey Blake's A Proletarian Life, in Hecate 11 (2) 1985.
"Contradictory Contestations", review of Debutante Nation, in Hecate 19 (2) 1993, pp. 156-162.
The Roots of Radicalism Review of Terry Irving's The Southern Tree of Liberty, about the working class and the origins of democracy in NSW.
Interviews
Olga Lipovskaya, Leningrad feminist (conducted with Liz Ross), Hecate 15 (2) 1989.
Ruth Indiah Rahayu and Nugroho Katjasungkana, Indonesian activists, Hecate 23 (1) 1997.
Vignettes
Is this all too heavy? Try some light reading.
Resources
Notes about my books, among others.
Bibliography
about 19th Century Australian history.
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