Career
Bound left school at the age of thirteen and cycled through a variety of jobs as a coalminer, cleaner, tram conductor and labourer before the Communist Party of Australia, seeing his work setting up the Cobblers Club in Devonport, appointed him an unpaid organiser. Bound stood as a Communist for numerous elections and was often the sole Tasmanian to represent the party at federal elections. During the 1960s he vigorously opposed the Vietnam War and conscription, and around this time completed a Bachelor of Environmental Design at the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education.
He was involved in the foundation of the Trade Union Community Research Centre, the Social Economic Ecological and Cultural Alliance, and the Social and Educational Research Concerning Humanity (SEARCH) Foundation.
In 2011 he published a book on political economy, Greed or Survival?, based on previously written papers.
