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Australian historian (1947–2023) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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Tom O'Lincoln | |
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Born | |
Died | 12 October 2023 76) | (aged
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
Occupation | Historian |
Known for | Australian labor history |
Political party | Socialist Alternative Victorian Socialists |
O'Lincoln died on 12 October 2023,[where?] at the age of 76, after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.[7]
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