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LLEWELLYN HARRY GOULD
 
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Husband of [[Diana Gould]] ,  L Harry Gould was educated at Dublin University.  He  joined the Communist Party in 1934 and was an activist for Negro rights in the USA. By 1937 he was in Sydney working as a WEA lecturer.  Warm and personable, a mild-mannered Jewish academic, he became editor of the ''Workers’ Weekly'' and its successor  ''Tribune''.  In preparation for the CPA being declared illegal, he bought a printing press.  Both CPA papers reviewed NT productions, important during the period 1948-60 when the theatre was blacklisted by the major dailies.   
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Husband of [[Diana Gould]] ,  L Harry Gould was educated at Dublin University.  He  joined the Communist Party in 1934 and was an activist for Negro rights in the USA. By 1937 he was in Sydney working as a WEA lecturer.  Warm, personable, a fastidious vegetarian and mild-mannered Jewish academic, he became editor of the ''Workers’ Weekly'' and its successor  ''Tribune''.  In preparation for the CPA being declared illegal, he bought a printing press.  Both CPA papers reviewed NT productions, important during the period 1948-60 when the theatre was blacklisted by the major dailies.   
  
 
Although viewed as a CPA theoretician, Gould's attitude to the Party was not uncritical.  He said that CPA intervention killed writers stone dead, destroying spontaneity, that Lenin wouldn’t have dared interfere with the creative process the way the CPA did, and that after Alan Marshall was told to write differently by CPA’s Alan Watt, he couldn’t write a line of his own and his output dried up.  Nevertheless, in a speech at Sydney University Labour Club in 1948 , Gould defended the CPA as practising full democracy while the capitalist system produced gangster, horror and sex films, and empty poetry.   
 
Although viewed as a CPA theoretician, Gould's attitude to the Party was not uncritical.  He said that CPA intervention killed writers stone dead, destroying spontaneity, that Lenin wouldn’t have dared interfere with the creative process the way the CPA did, and that after Alan Marshall was told to write differently by CPA’s Alan Watt, he couldn’t write a line of his own and his output dried up.  Nevertheless, in a speech at Sydney University Labour Club in 1948 , Gould defended the CPA as practising full democracy while the capitalist system produced gangster, horror and sex films, and empty poetry.   
  
 
Jailed for three months for membership of the CPA, Harry remained a member but questioned what was happening in the USSR.  He started writing about his disillusionment with Stalinism but was killed in a car accident in 1974 before the book’s completion.  His published works include several editions of a ''Marxist Glossary'' 1943-67, ''The Sharkey'' ''Writings'' ca 1974, and ''Art, Science & Communism'' 1946.
 
Jailed for three months for membership of the CPA, Harry remained a member but questioned what was happening in the USSR.  He started writing about his disillusionment with Stalinism but was killed in a car accident in 1974 before the book’s completion.  His published works include several editions of a ''Marxist Glossary'' 1943-67, ''The Sharkey'' ''Writings'' ca 1974, and ''Art, Science & Communism'' 1946.

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LLEWELLYN HARRY GOULD

Husband of Diana Gould , L Harry Gould was educated at Dublin University. He joined the Communist Party in 1934 and was an activist for Negro rights in the USA. By 1937 he was in Sydney working as a WEA lecturer. Warm, personable, a fastidious vegetarian and mild-mannered Jewish academic, he became editor of the Workers’ Weekly and its successor Tribune. In preparation for the CPA being declared illegal, he bought a printing press. Both CPA papers reviewed NT productions, important during the period 1948-60 when the theatre was blacklisted by the major dailies.

Although viewed as a CPA theoretician, Gould's attitude to the Party was not uncritical. He said that CPA intervention killed writers stone dead, destroying spontaneity, that Lenin wouldn’t have dared interfere with the creative process the way the CPA did, and that after Alan Marshall was told to write differently by CPA’s Alan Watt, he couldn’t write a line of his own and his output dried up. Nevertheless, in a speech at Sydney University Labour Club in 1948 , Gould defended the CPA as practising full democracy while the capitalist system produced gangster, horror and sex films, and empty poetry.

Jailed for three months for membership of the CPA, Harry remained a member but questioned what was happening in the USSR. He started writing about his disillusionment with Stalinism but was killed in a car accident in 1974 before the book’s completion. His published works include several editions of a Marxist Glossary 1943-67, The Sharkey Writings ca 1974, and Art, Science & Communism 1946.