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.
at the age of 76, after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.