Works of Bob Gould: date index
2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 19971970
2010
Credit where credit is due January 29
2009
The world is in deep strife and Labor is at its biggest turning point ever February 19
2008
A balance sheet of the crisis in the DSP January 2
Statistics on the Socialist Alliance January 3
Luke Skywalker lets the cat out of the bag January 3
This is the way a split happens January 8
Bob Gould’s holiday reading January 26
On the Guardian obituary for Artyom Sergeyev February 1
Socialist unification in Australia February 4
My enemy is dead and I mourn him February 4
A left eye at the funeral of Paddy McGuinness February 4
Several civilised actions by Labor on refugees February 6
A strange discussion on socialist unification February 7
A curious intervention on Marxmail February 9
A call to order on cop-baiting February 10
The weird sectarianism of the DSP majority February 11
Shameless cop-baiting February 12
Publicising left events February 12
The apology to indigenous Australia February 13
Left discussion and the apology to indigenous Australians February 14
A healthy development February 17
The best of times and the worst of times February 25
A powerful protest against privatisation February 26
Pseudo-leftists join the anti-union chorus February 29
Leaflets, demands and concrete struggles March 1
No friends but the voters and trade unions March13
Clyde Cameron 1913-2008 March 17
Mark Aarons touts “centre-left” Blairism March 18
Mystifying the Brisbane city council vote March 22
Labour democracy and “cabinet solidarity” March 27
My, how quickly they roll over March 28
Debate on Barack Obama’s speech March 29
Keeping the rank and file in the dark April 2
Gerard Henderson’s praise of Green Left Weekly April 2
Sterile propaganda versus active struggle April 4
Crunch time for the future of Labor April 11
Thirty questions and answers on the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union April 15
Italian communists in Stalin’s gulags April 16
South African labour movement’s support for Zimbabwe opposition April 22
Propaganda versus agitation April 19
Mick Armstrong’s prayer meeting about May 1968 April 28
Crunch time for the Labor Party as a force for progress May 1
The Greens and a rational united front approach May 2
A lot of high ground won in a continuing battle May 3
Costa says the labour movement is a joke. We’ll see who laughs last May 5
Michael, get the blunderbuss that’s hidden in the thatch May 5
Propagandism and the struggle against electricity privatisation May 6
Cranks and enemies May 7
Australian DSP divides May 12
The politics of the DSP purge May 16
A bleak wind back to the dismal past June 3
The sad, contradictory life of Wilfred Burchett June 4
A second win against electricity privatisation in NSW June 17
Electricity privatisation: the elephant in the room June 28
The new Direct Action and the Labor Party question July 14
The DSP leadership’s venture into ugly religious bigotry July 23
Mick’s metaphysics August 24
Support Pacific workers’ access to Australia September 2
2007
The weather gods were kind and no DSP split is immediately indicated January 21
Electoral success and sectarian babble March 5
The NSW election, the media and the will of the people March 28
Walter Lippman and the Mugabe dictatorship April 10
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 6-7
The Labor Party and its immediate problems June 26
The DSP’s united front from below tactic July 8
Questions to the ideological leaders of Marxmail December 5
Dopey exposure, as usual December 6
Issues in the struggle against electricity privatisation December 28
The DSP and democratic centralism December 30
2006
The strange pathology of a section of the DSP leadership January 2, 2006
A cyberwarrior’s systematic insults January 9
After the DSP conference January 11
DSP Green-bashing: whom the gods would destroy they first make mad January 13
The left in the Labor Party January 15-16
New DSP leadership’s tenuous grip on reality January 15
The DSP and the Third Period January 17-19
Not to praise, not to blame, but to understand January 18
Gossip, and real information January 21
Flag burning as tactic and publicity stunt February 21-23
Clyde Cameron joins the Socialist Alliance January 24
Protest at Howard’s 10-year anniversary dinner March 2
Peter Costello, Muslims and sharia law, March 6
Peter Boyle can’t count and Dave Holmes won’t tell the full story March 6
Why Green Left rarely says anything good about Labor March 8
Julia Gillard positions herself on the new right of the Labor Party, March 8
Kurds and Albanians have the right to self-determination March 21-25
Protest for West Papuan independence April 3
Sydney Morning Herald’s 175th anniversary, an alternative view April 19
Labor Tribune and left discussion May 2, 2006
- Reply to Bob Gould, Marcus Strom, May 27
Ride on stranger May 11
The Tasmanian and South Australian elections May 20
Socialist publishing May 24
The Latham Diaries, June 12
Invented “principles” and East Timor June 18
The hype goes on. Green Left Weekly and the national Work Choices protests June 28
The Bulletin’s 100 most influential Australians. A left view July 1
DSP lurches towards a split July 4
A poisonous mix: Third Period abuse combined with backward Popular Frontism July 12
Full-blown Third Period Stalinism in the DSP July 13-15
On a quiet sector of a quiet front July 17
A protest against Israeli state terrorism August 1
Advice from the planet Zot August 14
Unambiguous pro-Stalinism on the Hungary 1956 uprising August 15
Howard’s history summit. The Tory war on objective narrative history August 20
Scottish Socialist Party split September 5
The mountain laboured and brought forth a postmodernist Tory mouse September 6
The September 2006 Queensland election September 10-20
The pope as right-wing cultural warrior September 17
A hypermanic episode, and what it reveals politically October 3
The DSP and the death of the Tree of Knowledge October 6
DSP leadership’s alternative universe October 18
Entrism, the Labor Party and tactics today October 20-22
In the name of the working class. The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 October 31
Cyber-entity Raven’s personal little Moscow Trial November 4-28
Migrant bashing, the next Tampa November 4
Peter Fryer: Communist journalist who told the truth about Hungary 1956 November 7
Police and protest tactics in Melbourne November 21
Protest tactics: some lessons from the past November 21
Mass politics and the Victorian election November 29
2005
Bring 100,000 tsunami refugees to Australia, January 6
The 2005 DSP education conference January 7
Che Guevara and the left: A response to Louis Nowra January 12
Anticipating the death of Laborism February 2
The left and denial of Stalin’s crimes February 2
DSP apologetics for Stalinism in East Germany February 2
Joshua Boyle blasts his bugle again February 9
Wall of silence on results in WA February 28-March 11
Socialist Alliance: black is white March 1
Macquarie Fields police chase March 2
The DSP’s Potemkin Village. A letter to Andy Newman March 15
Lies, damned lies, statistics and the DSP March 17
The historic role of Al Grassby March 17
The AFL-CIO and existing unions in the US April 1
Barry Sheppard’s memoir April 2
John Percy’s strange memoir April 2
Mike Karadjis loses his cool on Vietnam April 10
Laurie Ferguson and Labor for Refugees April 21
Don’t mention the war. The DSP and Gallipoli April 26
The “labour aristocracy” and groundhog day April 26-27
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 14-16
John Percy’s memoir: 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 17-20
The DSP, Norm Dixon and the united front June 21-25
The united front and dog poo June 28
History repeats: Stanley Bruce and John Howard compared, June 30
Fighting Howard’s attacks: an open letter to members of the DSP and the Socialist Alliance July 2-5
The London transport bombings July 7
A 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 19-23
Hysteria over the Marrickville by-election September 26
Trouble for Howard on “terror” laws October 31-November 1
Defending the indefensible December 9-11
The struggle in the DSP December 15
Another hot Christmas for the Australian left December 26-29
Tactics in the labour movement December 28-29
2004
Australia’s First Socialists: A critical review January 3-18
The DSP’s perspectives January 5
National self-determination: primitive demagogy January 8
The Workers Communist Party and the situation in Iraq January 20
More questions on the theory of the labour aristocracy January 22
Origins of the working class in Australia February 2
ALP federal conference lurches unevenly to the left February 2-13
The texture, flavour and sociology of the Labor federal conference February 3-11
Free trade and Marxism February 4
Green Left Weekly,the DSP and the Socialist Alliance February 13-20
The life and work of Humphrey McQueen March 9
Trotsky’s attitude towards James P. Cannon March 11
Two documents on the labour aristocracy question March 16
Reclaim Lenin from “Leninists” and “Leninism”. Part I March 18
Arthur Calwell’s last hurrah, the summer of 1967 in Sydney March 20
Sydney antiwar protest a modest success March 22
Socialist Alliance lurches dramatically to the right March 22-24
Hungary 1956 discussion on Marxmail March 24
- Budapest 1956: The Central Workers’ Council Balasz Nagy
- 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-April 5
Spain, The Militant and “anti-US demagogy” April 4-5
US and Australian imperialism sink into the Iraqi quagmire April 8-19
Labor and Greens in Sydney: An open letter to fellow ALP members April 14-18
Labor and Green sectarianism April 21
Evil and the Labor Party April 27
Response to leftist websites May 19
Brainless, shameless, moralising rubbish May 24-25
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
On the left of the twilight zone June 9-11
A surreal discussion August 26
An outbreak of L-L-L-L-Leninism on the Australian left September 3
An expulsion from the DSP September 4
Greens “sectarianism” September 8
Discussion and regroupment September 12
What unites Ozleft? Response to Richard Fidler September 14-15
Brian Pearce on the Stalinist Third Period September 18
The Joshua strategy October 14
Preferences in the 2004 federal election October 17-18
Hall Greenland turns 60 November 5
Mark Latham’s Leichhardt Town Hall meeting November 24-25
The timeless history of Jim McIlroy December 1
Peter Boyle goes stir crazy December 3-4
Clownishness and personal abuse December 6-8
Victorian local government election results December 16
Weirdness in WA (and other places) December 18-21
DSP leadership prettifies the North Korean regime December 23-29
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 Iraq war. 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
The Communist Party of Australia on Stalin: an open letter August 1
Bring the troops home and the nature of internet discussion August 13
The WA Electrical Trades Union election August 13, 2003-January 13, 2004
Lay off Laura August 15
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera August 21
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
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 22
LBJ sitdown was a defining event October 22
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
Comparisons of Australia, Canada and Argentina October 29
On Bogong moths and Greens in Canberra October 30
Australian anti-Bush demonstrations November 6
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 election: The slogan of all the left should be Kick the Liberals Out November 19
Developing class consciousness: from the ALP to the revolutionary party November 19
Peter Boyle thinks he’s funny. So does Imre Saluzinszky November 20
10 days of interesting discussion 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
Labour history and the DSP book of parables January 1
The 2002 discussion in the ISO and issues raised for the left February 1
Labor after the 2001 federal election February 21
An open letter to Alex Callinicos March
Open letter to members of the DSP March 11
A philistine attack on Alfred Rosmer’s book March 18
Brothers: eight leaders of the Labor Council of NSW June 9
The People’s Choice. Electoral politics in New South Wales August 10
The DSP and the Socialist Alliance September 6-11
Labour, Lorimer and Lenin September 20-26
Bob Gould and the ALP. A pleasant Sunday afternoon in the life of an “old crank” September 25
Left discussion and approaches to regroupment 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 describe 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
The united front, Labor and the Greens October 23
The DSP and the so-called labour aristocracy 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 Marxists November 25-27
Australian Socialist Alliance left unity meeting in Brisbane November 26
25,000 march in Sydney December 1-3
Hobsbawm, Amis and Stalinism December 3
Stalinism and literary culture December 6
Did Stalinism end in the 1950s? December 6
2001
What sort of Socialist Alliance? April 2
The Green Left Weekly school of falsification May 30
Unions and the Socialist Alliance July 22
Marxists and the labour movement August 2001
2000
Race, nationality and religion in Australia, January 3
Interrogating Miriam Dixson January 9
The republic referendum: A view from the left January 10
George Petersen MLA 1921-2000 April
Dumbing down Australian history and its teaching, June 26
Deconstructing the 1960s: An open letter to Keith and Liz Windschuttle June 30
The Communist Party in Australian life October 21
Fabricating history on the British colonial frontier in Australia November 23
Local government boundaries in Sydney, December 18
1999
Over the hills lies China March 23
Two approaches to Aboriginal affairs April 9
Postmodernism, the decline of the humanities and the demobilisation of the left May 4
Stewart Macintyre’s The Reds May 8
An Irish family in Australia, June 2
Multiculturalism and Australian national identity June 3
Deconstructing Ghassan Hage June 4
The fate and future of Aboriginal Australians June 7
The Oxford Companion to Australian History August 1
Regionalise the states August 9
Racism and the Australian Labor Party August 5
Mass migration has been good for Australia and it should continue September 22
Marching with the war drums October
A Saturday night incident in Newtown and some musings on Pauline Hanson’s racism November 1
1998
Recollections of the struggle against the Vietnam War (September 24)
How to handle Pauline Hanson September 25
The real story about the “new class” October 13
1997
Bob Santamaria and Bob Gould December 4
1970
Honeymoon over. The collapse of the left coalition July 18
Articles about Bob Gould
- Bob Gould turns 70. Hall Greenland
- Good as Gould. Samia Hossein (Sydney University Union Recorder)