Jeff Sparrow

British Labour is significantly more authoritarian than Trump

Not long before he joins One Nation

Malcolm Turnbull accuses Liberals of ‘Trumpian campaign against renewables’ after party dumps net zero Climate groups call backflip a ‘disaster’ while moderate Liberals worry about impact on winning back urban electorates

When Scomo waved his lump of coal in parliament, he was supporting Malcolm Turnbull’s attack on renewables

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The Age called out the Myanmar genocide. Why not Gaza's? The paper's treatment of the Palestinians reeks of double standards.

I wrote a piece for @deepcutnews about how the media sees some genocides as more important than others

www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-age-ca...

Strategies of colonial denial: the case of Palestine and Australia - Overland literary journal Australians shouldn't be surprised at the social and psychological mechanisms that have enabled the Gaza genocide, since similar techniques facilitated the violent dispossession of Indigenous people i...

I’ve got a piece up at @OverlandJournal about Gaza and colonial Australia as part of Subscriberthon. Take out a sub and show your support!

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A history of dissent: Australian democracy would look very different without the right to protest - ABC Religion & Ethics Protests occur as part of a political struggle with winners and losers. Like strikes, protests are disruptive; that’s the point — they’re intended to force change on issues that would otherwise remain...

Wrote a piece responding to critics of recent protests

www.abc.net.au/religion/jef...

Age

Engels predicted to Marx that Australia would become ‘an astonishing example of what a state of unconcealed blackguards can do in the way of miracles…Carlyle will see his aristocracy of rogues established in full glory’

Ah yes, the Eureka Stockade, famously opposed to disruptive protests

Ah yes, the Eureka Stockade, famously opposed to disruptive protests

Hard not to feel you’re going insane watching confirmation after confirmation of an ongoing genocide

Complaint letter emerges after Melbourne hospital’s decision to cancel ‘children and war’ panel angers staff Exclusive: Letter to CEO argued event would pose a risk of ‘moral injury, vicarious trauma and harmful workplace behaviours’ to staff and patients

Shameful!

(PDF) Introduction: Media, democracy, and the global rise of the far right PDF | This introductory chapter establishes a theoretical and conceptual foundation for analysing far-right media representations across the... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Resea...

Excited to share that a new book I was fortunate to edit is now online! 📚 shorturl.at/LaKw7

'The Far Right and the Media' examines cases of reporting on the FR across Spain, Portugal, the US, UK, Aotearoa NZ, Israel & Australia.

A preprint of the introduction is available here: shorturl.at/Rui7S

'Starvation is everywhere': Virtual tours of Gaza clinics expose the scale of the horror ***

This is why we march

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

‘Operating like Big Brother’: Melbourne University breached privacy in surveilling student protesters A top Australian university violated students’ privacy when it used its internet network to identify students participating in a Gaza protest in May 2024.

Unimelb to Latrobe: hold my beer!

www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Solidarity with @Dave_Brophy. All universities should oppose genocide!

Sydney Uni has a ‘thirteen page flag policy’, which they used to stop @Dave_Brophy from protesting against genocide.

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More concerned with ‘social cohesion’ than stopping a live-streamed genocide. The most extraordinary moral failure in a generation.

The anti-genocide movement has been driven by below: activists rather than bureaucrats, people rather than NGOs, students rather than professors, etc. Almost without exception, the top echelons of society have tried to stop the protests, not the genocide.

Here is the current list of places sanctioned by Australian universities using DFAT’s list of countries designated for human rights abuses etc. It is disgraceful that none of the unis have the moral fortitude to add Israel to that list in the context of an ongoing genocide.

Israeli human rights group B’Tselem publishes a new report ‘Our genocide’

www.btselem.org/publications...

It was just as possible then as it is now.

actualtasks.net/2025/07/23/t...

Why yes, Zotero — why not erase 900 footnotes just for the lols!

This is Amnesty International, the most reputable human rights group in the world. No one can say they didn’t know.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Now that a court has made this entirely obvious point perhaps even the universities can understand it.

The wretched failures of liberalism are allowing the worst grifters to come to the fore.

All the mayhem in the world makes books feel like indulgences. Nevertheless, I’m chuffed to be doing Somewhere Here the Future’s Hid: The Life of Lesbia Harford with @monashuniversity.bsky.social some time next year.

Have a full podcast of @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social in conversation with @leninology.bsky.social a few weeks ago, not sure if this is relevant to anything going on? www.3cr.org.au/yeahnahpasar...

Climate politics in a time of monsters - Overland literary journal What has been demonstrated in Gaza that certain populations — in this case, Palestinians — possess no rights and have no value in the eyes of the powerful. That lesson has obvious implications in an e...

I wrote something for @overlandjournal.bsky.social on climate and Gaza overland.org.au/2025/06/clim...