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Works of
Bob Gould
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Australian history
Electoral
politics
Labor Party and labour movement
Marxism,
Leninism and Trotskyism
National question
Neoconservatism
and the left
People of the left
Political
movements
Postmodernism
Race,
migration and
multiculturalism
Reviews
Socialist and Communist left
Communist
Party of Australia
Democratic
Socialist
Perspective
Also
known as Socialist Review
Group, Socialist Workers Party, Democratic Socialist Party
Other
US
left
Vietnam
antiwar
movement
Articles about Bob Gould
Bob
Gould's
contributions to email discussion
2007
Electoral
success and Dave Riley's babble. (March 5)
A
view from the left: the NSW election, the media and the will of the
people. (March 28)
The
Labor national conference and industrial relations. (May 1)
Trade
unions, war on the waterfront and a pretty good time for dialectics
(May 16)
Piers
Ackerman's antisemitic hero. (May 17)
The
left, the trade unions and the Labor Party ranks between Rudd and a
hard place. (June 5)
Media
monitors and information gathering. (June 6)
Spin
doctor Sue. (June 6)
Forced
indignation on recording workers' meetings. (June 7)
Spinners
should try to keep their story straight. (June 7)
Labor
and the trade unions: Riley, Raven and their mates are on the side of
the conservatives. (June 8)
The
Labor Party and its immediate problems. A response to Alan Bradley and
Geoff Breen (June 26)
Dave
Noonan, John Robertson and Pat O'Shane call Kevin Rudd and Julia
Gillard to order. (July 8)
2006
Norm
Dixon's systematic insults (January 9)
The
DSP conference (January 11)
DSP
Green-bashing: whom the gods would destroy they first make mad
(January 13)
Dale
Mills and the left in the Labor Party (January 15)
New
Boylite DSP leadership's tenuous grip on reality (January 15)
The
left in the Labor party (January 16)
Poor
diddums: a response to Dale Mills and Norm Dixon (January 16)
The
DSP and the Third Period (January 17)
Response
to Peter Boyle (January 19)
Response
to Joaquin, and to Shane (January 19)
Gossip,
and real information (January 21)
Dave
Riley, Sam Kekovich and the new DSP leadership (January 23)
Much
spluttering in the hive (January 24)
The
Labor Party and conspiracy theories (January 27)
Flag
burning as tactic and publicity stunt (February 21)
Peter
Boyle and Machiavelli (February 23)
The
case of the disappearing Green Left Weekly article (March 8)
The mountain
laboured and a mouse came out (March 25)
Tadpoles
from Woop Woop. The Third Period in leafy Katoomba (March 11)
Kurds
and
Albanians have the right to self-determination (March 21)
Is
the term, agitator, Gouldspeak? (March 21)
Marxmail
and the
right of nations to self-determination (March 22)
Again
on the
Kurdish question (March 23)
Protest
for West Papuan independence (April 3)
Ride
on stranger (May 11)
Socialist
publishing (May 24)
Invented
"principles" and East Timor (June 18)
Labor
Tribune on DSP split (July 4)
Peter
Boyle fools around with smoke and mirrors (July 5)
Boyleite
Third Period abuse combined with backward Popular Frontism (July 12)
Full-blown
Third Period Stalinism in the DSP (July 13)
On
Bob Gould and Icecreamhands (July 14)
Canadidan
Stalinist Grok talks about icepicks (July15)
Marcus
Strom from the planet Zot (August 14)
Scottish
Socialist Party split (September 5)
Green
Left Weekly on the Queensland elections (September 13)
The
DSP leadership's despicable political irresponsibility (September
15)
Queensland
elections: Dave Riley's aburdist "analysis" (September 20)
Dave
Riley's hypermanic episode, and what it reveals politically
(October 3)
The
hysteria gets worse (October 4)
Bob
Gould's "obscure writings on indigenous affairs (October 4)
Inflamatory
language creates the potential for violence on the left (October 5)
Duroyan
Fertl and the death of the Tree of Knowledge (October 6)
Common
sense breaks out (October 6)
Dave
Riley and the Tree of Knowledge (October 6)
DSP
leadership's sectarian myopia in its alternative universe (October
18)
Entrism,
the Labor Party and tactics today (October 20)
A
response to Norm Dixon on discussion on the left (October 22)
In
the name of the working class. The Hungarian Revolution of 1956
(October 31)
Cyber-entity
Raven's personal little Moscow Trial (November 4)
A
further appeal to the DSP leadership and the moderator of the Green
Left list (November 5)
Norm
Dixon and serial slanderer Raven continue their double act.
(November 18)
Norm
Dixon and his mate Raven are a scandal. (November 20)
Raven-Dixon
double act. (November 21)
Gould
is not a provocateur, for the record, indeed. (November 22)
For
the record. The vicious slanders on the Green Left list. (November
25)
Some
questions to the moderator. (November 28)
2005
Joshua
Boyle blasts his bugle again. (February
9)
Results
in WA (February 28)
Peter
Boyle and Dave Riley say black is white (March 1)
Macquarie
Fields police chase (March 2)
WA
election: Green Left Weekly's wall of silence (March 11)
The
Boyle-Riley Potemkin village. A letter to Andy Newman (March 15)
Lies,
damned lies, statistics, Peter Boyle and Dave Riley (March 17)
Mike
Karadjis loses his cool on Vietnam. (April 10)
Autobiography
is treacherous territory (April 19)
Laurie
Ferguson and Labor for Refugees (April 21)
Nick
Fredman and groundhog day (April 26)
The
AWU
and racism (April 27)
Clancy
Sigal and Frida (May 4)
Socialist
Unity with the living dead. (June 6)
Question
on Green Left Weekly readers (June 7)
Two
state conferences of the Australian Labor Party (June 14)
Response
to Kim Bullimore and Jon Strauss (June16)
Response
to Sol Salbe (June 16)
Peter
Boyle throws diplomacy to the wind (June 17)
Lese
majeste by "the rump of the Non Aligned Caucus (June 17)
Ben
Courtice's Sisyphean task (June 18)
Kim
Bullimore and election processes (June 18)
One
person's obsession is another's history or critique (June 18)
Alison
Dellit's breath of fresh air (June 19)
Kim
Bullimore's indignation (June 20)
The
DSP, Norm Dixon and the united front (June 21)
Norm
Dixon takes Laurie Ferguson's spin as good coin (June 22)
Norm
Dixon, the DSP leadership and the united front from below (June 25)
Norm
Dixon, Peter Boyle, Rohan Gaiswinkler, the united front and dog poo
(June 28)
Fighting
Howard's attacks: an open letter to members of the DSP and the
Socialist Alliance (July 2)
DSP
condescenscion to Labor voters in the Northern Territory (July 3)
The
DSP's left-talking opportunism (July 4)
Kim
Bullimore and identity politics (July 5)
The
DSP underestimates the importance of transferring industrial powers
from the states (July 5)
The
ACTU and the fight against Howard's anti-union laws (July 5)
The
London transport bombings (July 7)
Peter
Boyle's peculiar view on the reactionary attack on multiculturalism
(August 3)
By
elections in NSW and Mark Latham's book. How the DSP sect views the
world (September 19)
DSP
racism in Marrickville by-election analysis (September 21)
Peter
Boyle's "recollections" and Kim Bullimore's lies (September 23)
Trouble
for Howard on "terror" laws (October 31)
Slanderous
left talk from Norm Dixon (November 1)
A
response to the moderator, Norm Dixon and Mike Karadjis (December
11)
The
DSP statement on an article in Weekly Worker (December 11)
Tactics
in the labour movement. A response to John Tognolini (December 19)
Correction
(December 19)
Another
hot Christmas for the Australian left (December 26)
Tactics
in the labour movement. A response to John Tognolini (December 28)
John
Tognolini's slander is not credible (December 29)
2004
Australia's
First Socialists: A critical review. (January 3)
Re:
Democratic Socialist Perspective. (January 5)
Re:
Australia's First Socialists. (January 6)
Re:
Australia's First Socialists. (January 6)
Re:
To sum it up, Michael K. (January 8)
Re:
To sum it up, Michael K. (January 8)
Sackings
in the WA ETU. (January 13)
Labor
History: Bob Gould's response to Peter Boyle on Australia's First
Socialists. (January 15)
Re:
Labor History. Bob Gould's response to Peter Boyle. (January 17)
Academics:
A response to Nick Fredman and Alan Bradley. (January 17)
Re:
Gould/Lewis and the GLW list. (January 17)
Ben
Reid and the World Socialist Web Site. (January 18)
The
Workers Communist Party and the situation in Iraq. (January 20)
More
questions on the theory of the labour aristocracy. (January 22)
A
clarification to Jonathon Strauss and Peter Boyle: Putting the
questions another way. (January 22)
Re:
More questions on the theory of the labour aristocracy. (January 23)
Satisfactory
clarification of the basis for a discussion on the labor aristocracy.
(January 23)
Re:
Labour aristocracy in Australia (part 1) (January 28)
A
few more points to Peter Boyle about his recent posts (January 29)
A
response to recent posts by Peter Boyle, Jon Strauss and Shane Hopkinson
(February 2)
ALP
federal conference lurches unevenly to the left (February 2)
Errata
from my post on the federal Labor conference and the labour aristocracy
(February 3)
The
texture, flavour and sociology of the Labor federal conference, 2004
(February 3)
Phil
Ferguson and free trade (February 4)
Phillip
Ferguson, Peter Boyle and the ALP federal conference (February 4)
The
industrial relations debate at the ALP national conference.
(February 11)
Green
Left Weekly,the Democratic Socialist Party and the Socialist Alliance.
(February 13)
Re:
Green Left Weekly,the Democratic Socialist Party and the Socialist
Alliance. (February 14)
Virginia
Brown's response to my recent posts about Green Left Weekly.
(February 17)
A
reply to Nick Fredman: please don't verbal Michael Thomson!.
(February 18)
Re:
Bob's reply to Nick Fredman, 10 "verbals" in five paragraphs.
(February 18)
A
response to Peter Boyle and the editorial board of Green Left Weekly.
(February 19)
A
Response to Peter Boyle, and the Editorial Board of Green Left Weekly.
(February 20)
Trotsky's
attitude towards James P. Cannon. (March 11)
Two
documents on the labour aristocracy question. (March 16)
Sydney
antiwar protest a modest success. (March 22)
Australian
Socialist Alliance lurches dramatically to the right.
(March 22)
More
on preferences in the Sydney City Council elections.
(March 24)
Hungary
1956 discussion on Marxmail. (March 24)
The
Hungarian Tragedy. Peter Fryer
A
preliminary observation on the NSW local government elections.
(March 29)
Peter
Boyle draws what he calls a class line. (March 30)
Proletarian
revolution centred on
Elizabeth Bay and Rushcutter's Bay. (March 30)
Dennis/Michael
Berrell's historical falsehoods. (March 31)
DSP
leadership drops Marxist analysis in preferencing Clover Moore.
(April 2)
Spain,
The Militant and "anti-US demagogy". (April 4)
NSW
council elections: reply to Nobby Tobby. (April 5)
Similarities
between the US SWP-Militant and the Australian DSP-GLW in their
approach to social-democrats. (April 5)
NSW
council elections: getting the story straight. (April 5)
NSW
council elections: response to Ambrose Andrews. (April 5)
US
and Australian imperialism sink into the Iraqi quagmire. (April 8)
Response
to Tom O'Lincoln and Gary MacLennan. (April 8)
Re:
Alan Ramsey on Latham. (April 10)
Labor
and Greens in Sydney. (April 14)
Postscript
to Labor and Greens in Sydney. (April 15)
Tom
O'Lincoln and GLW Parramatta grasp at straws about Labor and Iraq.
(April 19)
Labor
and Green sectarianism. (April 21)
Dave
Riley asserts that the earth is flat. (April 27)
Response
to leftist websites. (May 19)
Brainless,
shameless, moralising rubbish from GLParramatta. (May 24)
Re:
Brainless, shameless, moralising rubbish from GL Parramatta. (May
25)
GLW,
the left press and the labour movement. (June 2)
Federal
election prospects of the Socialist Alliance. (June 4)
How
sects view the world. (June 7)
GLW
list and Carl Kenner in the twilight zone. (June 9)
DSP
and Carl Kenner still in the twilight zone. (June 11)
Expulsion
from the DSP: A response to Peter Boyle and Paperclayman.
(September 4)
Greens
"sectarianism". (September 8)
Peter
Boyle, Duncan Meerding, Norm, Simon B2, Paul Benedek, lies and
truth. (September 12)
Bob
Gould responds to Richard Fidler. (September 14)
Richard
Fidler's query. (September 15)
A
short answer to Norm, pending a longer one later. (September 18)
Brian
Pearce on the Third Period. (September 18)
Mark
Latham's Leichhardt Town Hall meeting. (November 24)
More
on Latham's meeting (November 25)
Peter
Boyle goes stir crazy. (December 3)
Advice
to Duncan Meerding on holiday reading (December 4)
The
clownishness of Peter Boyle and Rohan G (December 6)
Self-important
abuse from Dave Riley (December 8)
Victorian
local government election results (December 16)
Weirdness
in WA (and other places) (December 18)
No
serious response from the DSP leadership (December 21)
DSP
leadership prettifies the North Korean regime (December 23)
The
holiday season and political discussion (December 24)
DSP
drifts towards Stalinism. (December 26)
2003
How
to Split. (February 27)
Christopher
Hill. (February 27)
An
Open Letter to Jose Ramos Horta. (February 28)
East
Timor, Luxembourg and Lenin. (March 4)
Christopher
Hill (as the nth man). (March 9)
East
Timor, Luxembourg and Lenin. (March 10)
Sydney
antiwar protest. (March 21)
They
can't all be Right (Australian Financial Review). (March 23)
The
Australian Labor Party and the Iraq war. (March 28)
Six
days in the antiwar movement in Sydney. Part I. (April 9)
Six
days in the antiwar movement in Sydney. Part II. (April 9)
Six
days in the antiwar movement in Sydney. Part III. (April 9)
The
war in Iraq. A response to Barry York. (April 22)
Workers
Online, Green Left Weekly and socialist journalism. (May 5)
Labor
and the spooks. (July 16)
Tom
O'Lincon, Ed George and others on national self determination and
nationalism. (July 20)
A
kind of response to Maripower and several others on the question of
Stalinism. (July 20)
Bring
the troops home and the nature of internet discussion. (August 13)
Green
Left Weekly article union elections in WA. (August 13)
Lay
off Laura. (August 15)
Re:
Green Left Weekly article on union elections in WA. (August 16)
Re:
Green Left Weekly article on union elections in WA. (August 19)
Frida
Kahlo and Diego Rivera. (August 21)
Tom
O'Lincoln's views on East Timor and bombings in Iraq. (August 22)
Re:
Communists in concentration camps. (August 22)
Jose
the thunderer. Thundering Jose. Part I. (August 30)
Jose
the thunderer. Thundering Jose. Part II. (August 30)
Perez
thunders on. Another Gould response. Part I. (September 2)
Perez
thunders on. Another Gould response. Part II. (September 2)
The
DSP and the WA electricians' union elections. (September 5)
Re:
Dear Keith Windschuttle. (September 8)
A
response to all the little thunderers. (September 8)
More
on Iraq. (September 10)
An
outbreak of primitive Stalinism on Marxmail. (September 24)
Lenin,
Krupskaya and Inessa Armand. (September 24)
Australian
left-wing writers and Stalinism. (October 16)
Bush
comes to Australia. (October 20)
7000-10,000
march in Sydney against Bush. (October 20)
Australia's
occult capital . (October 24)
Re:
Rebuilding Western Marxism: Questions to Jose Perez. (October 26)
The
real lessons of the Vietnam antiwar movement in Australia. (October
27)
Supplementary
questions to Jose Perez. (October 28)
Louis
Proyect's comparison of Australia, Canada and Argentina. (October
29)
On
Bogong moths and Greens in Canberra. (October 30)
Australian
anti-Bush demonstrations. (November 6)
Peter
Boyle's ignorant demagogy about the history of the CPA, the ALP and the
labour movement. (November 7)
Socialists
and labour parties, demystified a bit. (November 16)
The
coming federal elections: The slogan of all the left should be Kick the
Liberal Out. (November 19)
Developing
class consciousness: from the ALP to the revolutionary party.
(November 19)
Peter
Boyle thinks he's funny. So does Imre Saluzinsky. (November 20)
10
days of interesting disussion on the Green Left Weekly list.
(November 27)
A
crisis of theory in Marxism. (December 7)
Socialists
and the Latham experiment: a few words from the demon. (December 8)
A
week of venom and slaying social democracy on the Green Left list.
(December 11)
Stir-crazy
Rip Van Winkles. (December 26)
2002
The
DSP and the Socialist Alliance. (September 6)
The
DSP and the Socialist Alliance. Response to Jose Perez, Shane
Hopkinson,
Peter Boyle, Alan Bradley and Dick Nichols. (September 11)
Labour
parties: a response to Jose Perez, Ben Courtice, Phillip Ferguson and
Jurriaan Bendien (September 22)
Australian
Labor Party: a response to Doug Lorimer. (September 25)
Bob
Gould and the ALP. A pleasant Sunday afternoon in the life of an "old
crank". (September 25)
Labor,
Marxists and Gould and Painter's distortions. (September 26)
Australian
left: a response to Peter Boyle and Tom O'Lincoln (September 27)
British
Labour's conference: a response to Nigel Irritable. (October 2)
New
Labour: "Dinosaurs" versus "sectarians", and the political use of
Gaelic. (October 3)
Mass
labour parties in the English-speaking world, empirically described.
(October 4)
Irish
electoral systems. (October 9)
On
Scots/Welsh Labour. (October 9)
Australian
Labor Party: the rules conference (October 9)
ALP
rules conference: clippings from the media. (October 9)
Labor
students: cream or scum? A response to Nick Fredman. (October 15)
Sociology
of labour parties in English-speaking countries. Part I (October 18)
Sociology
of labour parties in English-speaking countries. Part Ia (October
18)
Sociology
of labour parties in English-speaking countries. Part II (October
18)
On
the Greens' victory in the Cunningham by-election. (October 21)
Response
to Nick Fredman and Ben Courtice on the Greens and the Labor Party.
(October 23)
A
response to Peter Boyle's curious mantra about Lenin, the labour
aristocracy and other matters. (October 24)
Peter
Boyle and the labour aristocracy. (November 1)
Peter
Boyle and the labour aristocracy. (November 5)
Peter
Boyle, the labour aristocracy and the united front. (November 9)
The
Democratic Socialist Party and the Socialist Alliance. (November 13)
Nick
Fredman, Peter Boyle and fire ants. (November 19)
Fire
ants. (November 21)
Peter
Boyle and the labour aristocracy. Part I (November 23)
Peter
Boyle and the labour aristocracy. Part II (November 23)
United
fronts, labour parties and the socialist project: a response to Shane
Hopkinson. Part I. (November 25)
Australian
Socialist Alliance left unity meeting in Brisbane. (November 26)
United
fronts, labour parties and the socialist project: a response to Shane
Hopkinson. Part II. (November 27)
25,000
march in Sydney. (December 1)
25,000
march in Sydney. (December 2)
25,000
march in Sydney: a response to Nick Fredman and Ben Reid (December
3)
Hobsbawm,
Amis and Stalinism. (December 6)
Stalinism
and literary culture (December 6)
Stalinism
and literary culture (addendum) (December 6)
Did
Stalinism end in the 1950s? (December 6)
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