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The Third World Bookshop
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1967-1970?
History
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.
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Revised, Linda Justo, 2-Nov-2021.
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Sources
Sharmon, S. (2017). 'Gould's Book Arcade: the political, literary legacy of Newtownj's dusty wonder', The Guardian, 27 Nov 2017, accessed online 2-Nov-2021.
Cahill, R. (2011). ‘'The Two-Million Dollar Man’: Bob Gould, 1937-2011', Labour History, 101, 209–212, accessed online 2-Nov-2021.
McIlroy, J. and Boyle, P. (2011). 'Vale Bob Gould: 1937-2011', Green left, issue 881, accessed online 2-Nov-2021.