The Third World Bookshop was opened in 1967 by leftwing activist Bob Gould and was at 35-37 Goulburn Street, Sydney. This bookshop was the first of 12 attempts by Bob Gould to establish himself in the Sydney bookshop trade. Gould, an early proponent of the Anti-Vietnam war movement co-founded Resistence, a socialist youth organisation, with The Third World Bookshop as a gathering place for activits to talk, organise and read. After Gould left Resistence in the early 1970s, the bookshop shut it's doors.