Works of Bob Gould

Latest

• Dave Riley's alternative universe wierdness.
• A view from the left: the NSW election, the media and the will of the people.
• The Labor national conference and industrial relations.
• Walter Lippman and the Mugabe dictatorship.
  
• Trade unions, war on the waterfront and a pretty good time for dialectics.
• The left, the trade unions and the Labor Party ranks between Rudd and a hard place.
• Media monitors and information gathering.

Australian history

• The mountain laboured and brought forth a postmodernist Tory mouse
• Howard's history summit. The Tory war on objective narrative history
• The Bulletin's 100 most influential Australians. A view from the left
• The Sydney Morning Herald's 175th anniversary, an alternative view
• History repeats itself: Stanley Bruce and John Howard compared
• Dumbing down Australian history and its teaching
• Australia, the Irish Catholics and the labour movement.
• An Irish family in Australia. The Goulds, O'Hallorans and Conlons

Electoral politics

• The September 2006 Queensland elections
• An open letter to fellow ALP members
• Socialists and the coming federal elections: The slogan should be "kick the Liberals out"
• The republic referendum: a view from the left.
• Submission to an inquiry on local government boundaries in Sydney
• A surreal discussion: The US Militant, the Australian elections, Green Left Weekly and Marxmail

Labor Party and labour movement

• Marcus Strom from the Planet Zot
• On a quiet sector of a quiet front: the NSW Labor Party conference
  
• An open letter to Marcus Strom and Labor Tribune
• Response to Bob Gould. Marcus Strom
• The Latham Diaries
  
• Julia Gillard positions herself as a leader of a new right in the Labor Party
  
• Two state conferences of the Australian Labor Party
• Norm Dixon's demagogic approach to the Labor left
  
• The historic role of Al Grassby
  
• Dick Nichols anticipates the death of Laborism
  
• Mark Latham's public meeting in Leichhardt
• An open letter to Labor Party members on preferences in the 2004 federal elections
• Marxists and the labour movement: a reply to Dick Nichols
• Submission to the ALP Committees of Inquiry after the 2001 federal elections
• Labour history: The Green Left Weekly school of falsification
• Bob Santamaria and Bob Gould. A reminisence of the great Labor split
• Racism and the Australian Labor Party
  

Marxism, Leninism and Trotskyism

• A crisis of theory in Marxism
  
• Lenin, Krupskaya and Inessa Armand
  
• Response to a philistine "review" of Trotsky and the origins of Trotskyism
  

National question

• Sydney protest against Israeli state terrorism
  
• Kurdistan, Albanians and discussion of national self-determination on Marxmail
  

Neoconservatism and the left

• Che Guevara and the left: A response to Louis Nowra
• Deconstructing the 1960s. An open letter to Keith and Liz Windschuttle
• Interrogating Miriam Dixson. A letter to an old comrade

People of the left

• Clyde Cameron joins the Socialist Alliance
  
• Audrey Johnson, 1925-2002
  
• The life and times of George Petersen. 1921-2000 (ALP)
• Hall Greenland turns 60

Political movements

• Rally against Howard's industrial Gestapo
• Spirited protest against the Howard government's decade in office celebration
  
• Marching with the war drums
• Bush comes to Australia

Postmodernism

• Deconstructing Ghassan Hage
• Postmodernism, cultural theory, decline of the humanities, demobilisation of the left

Race, migration and multiculturalism

• Peter Costello, Muslims and sharia law
  
• Bring 100,000 tsunami refugess to Australia
• Fabricating history on the British colonial frontier in Australia: Windschuttle, McGuinness and massacres of Aborigines
  
• Proposals for reforming Australia's government: regionalise the states
  
• The fate and future of Aboriginal Australians
  
• A Saturday night incident in Newtown, and some musings on Hanson's racism
• Mass migration has been good for Australia and it should continue
  
• Approaches to Aboriginal affairs. The kings and queens of mean versus Fred Hollows
• Multiculturalism and Australian national identity
  
• Over the hills lies China. A response to Paul Sheehan's Amongst the Barbarians
• How to handle Pauline Hanson, and how Bob Gould was accused of losing the elections
  

Reviews

• The Latham Diaries
• The timeless history of Jim McIlroy and the Democratic Socialist Perspective
  
• Brothers, Eight Leaders of the Labor Council of NSW, by Marilyn Dodkin
  
• The People's Choice. Electoral politics in 20th century NSW. A review
  
• Stewart Macintyre's The Reds. A review
• Red Hot: a review
• The Oxford Companion to Australian History. A critical comment
• Australia's First Socialists: A critical review
• The DSP book of parables. The Red North: how not to write useful labour history.

Socialist and Communist left

Communist Party of Australia

• An open letter to the Communist Party of Australia.
• Honeymoon over: the collapse of the left coalition.
  
• The Communist Party of Australia in Australian life.

Democratic Socialist Perspective

• The weather gods were kind and no DSP split is immediately indicated.
  
• Scottish Socialist Party split
  
• Full-blown Third Period Stalinism in the DSP
  
• Boyleite Third Period abuse combined with backward Popular Frontism: a poisonous mix
• The DSP lurches towards a split
  
• The hype goes on: Green Left Weekly and the June 28 mobilisations
• Socialist electoral tactics in light of the Tasmanian and South Australian elections
• Why Green Left very rarely says anything good about Labor
• Peter Boyle can't count and Dave Holmes won't tell the full story
  
• Not to praise, not to blame, but to understand. A balance sheet of the struggle in the DSP so far
  
• After the DSP conference: In response to Nick Fredman
• The strange pathology of a section of the DSP leadership
• The struggle in the DSP
  
• DSP leadership's hysteria over the 2005 Marrickville by-election
• Fighting Howard's attacks: an open letter to DSP and Socialist Alliance members
• The Socialist Alliance and Fightback Conferences (June 2005)
• Don't mention the war: the DSP and Gallipoli
• John Percy's strange memoir of the DSP
• DSP apologetics for Stalinism in East Germany
• The January 2005 DSP education conference
• The Joshua strategy. The left and the 2004 Australian federal elections
• An outbreak of L-L-L-Leninism on the Australian left
• Reclaim Lenin from "Leninists" and "Leninism". Part I
• Reclaim Lenin from "Leninists" and "Leninism". Part II
• Green Left Weekly and the WA ETU elections.
  
• The DSP's proposal to the Socialist Alliance on union affiliation to the Labor Party.
• An open letter to members of the Democratic Socialist Party.
• What sort of socialist alliance? 
  

Other

• Walter Lippman and the Mugabe dictatorship
  
• Michael Berrell's unambiguous pro-Stalinism
  
• Marxism and religion: an open letter to Barry York on the Iraq war
• The left and denial of Stalin's crimes
• An open letter to Alex Callinicos
• The 2002 discussion in the International Socialist Organisation and issues raised for the left

US left

• Caroline Lund, Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard say workers should leave US AFL-CIO.
• Barry Sheppard's memoir of the US SWP

Vietnam antiwar movement

• Recollections of the struggle against the war in Vietnam.
• Arthur Calwell's last hurrah, the summer of 1967 in Sydney.
  

Articles about Bob Gould

• Bob Gould turns 70. Hall Greenland
• Good as Gould. Samia Hossein (Sydney University Union Recorder)
  

Bob Gould's contributions to email discussion

2007

2006

2005  

2004

2003

How to Split. (February 27)
Christopher Hill. (February 27, March 9)
An Open Letter to Jose Ramos Horta. (February 28)
East Timor, Luxembourg and Lenin. (March 4-10)
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)
Ten days in the antiwar movement in Sydney. (April 9)
The war in Iraq. A response to Barry York and Gerard Henderson. (April 22)
Workers Online, Green Left Weekly and socialist journalism. (May 5)
Labor and the spooks. (July 16)
National self determination and nationalism. (July 20)
Slavoj Zizek and nostalgic Stalinism. (July 20)
Bring the troops home and the nature of internet discussion. (August 13)
Lay off Laura. (August 15)
Re: Green Left Weekly article on union elections in WA. (August 13-September 4)
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. (August 21)
Tom O'Lincoln's views on East Timor and bombings in Iraq. (August 22)
Communists in concentration camps. (August 22)
Debate on Iraq. Jose the thunderer, thundering Jose. (August 30-September 2)
Debate on Iraq. Jose thunders on (September 2)
The DSP and the WA electricians' union elections. (September 5)
Windschuttle on Chomsky. (September 8)
Debate on Iraq: a response to all the little thunderers. (September 8-10)
An outbreak of primitive Stalinism on Marxmail. (September 24)
Lenin, Krupskaya and Inessa Armand. (September 24)
The heirs of Stalin. Australian left-wing writers and Stalinism. (October 16)
Bush comes to Australia. (October 20)
7000-10,000 march in Sydney against Bush. (October 20)
Long march in Australia's occult capital . (October 24)
Rebuilding Western Marxism: Questions to Jose P (October 26)
The real lessons of the Vietnam antiwar movement in Australia. (October 27)
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 6-11)
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 20-26)
Bob Gould and the ALP. A pleasant Sunday afternoon in the life of an "old crank". (September 25)
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)
Australian Labor Party: the rules conference (October 9)
Labor students: cream or scum? A response to Nick Fredman. (October 15)
Sociology of labour parties in English-speaking countries. (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-November 23)
The Democratic Socialist Party and the Socialist Alliance. (November 13)
Nick Fredman, Peter Boyle and fire ants. (November 19)
United fronts, labour parties and the socialist project: a response to Shane Hopkinson. Part I. (November 25-27)
Australian Socialist Alliance left unity meeting in Brisbane. (November 26)
25,000 march in Sydney and responses. (December 1-3)
Hobsbawm, Amis and Stalinism. (December 6)
Stalinism and literary culture (December 6)
Did Stalinism end in the 1950s? (December 6)

Since July 18, 2003