Jeff Sparrow

As a student activist and member of the Trotskyist group, the International Socialist Organisation (ISO), Sparrow was one of the Austudy Five, controversially arrested after a protest in 1992.[http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/23/1030052962225.html Raising Melbourne's red flag] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091215043420/http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/23/1030052962225.html |date=15 December 2009 }} The Age, 23 August 2002. Accessed: 13 July 2009. He was expelled from the ISO in 1995.[https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/iso-purges-opposition ISO purges opposition] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120906121614/http://www.greenleft.org.au/1995/197/11465 |date=6 September 2012 }} Green Left Weekly, Issue 197, 9 August 1995. Accessed: 9 January 2010. After leaving Socialist Alternative, he was involved for some years in the group Civil Rights Defence. In 2018, he endorsed Stephen Jolly and the Victorian Socialists.{{cite web |last1=Sparrow |first1=Jeff |title=Is socialism the answer to the climate catastrophe? {{!}} Jeff Sparrow |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/24/is-socialism-the-answer-to-the-climate-catastrophe |website=The Guardian |accessdate=6 December 2018 |date=23 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181206053244/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/24/is-socialism-the-answer-to-the-climate-catastrophe |archive-date=6 December 2018 |url-status=live }}

Radical Melbourne (Vulgar Press, 2001) presents a guide through the first 100 years of political radicalism in Melbourne, focusing on the structures, streets and public places that remain today, and illustrated by rarely seen images from the archives of the State Library of Victoria. Journalist and author John Pilger called Radical Melbourne "a brilliantly original, long overdue unveiling of a great city's true past". The book inspired Radical Brisbane, a similar project about the Queensland capital, by Raymond Evans and Carole Ferrier.Frank Bongiorno, "Radical Brisbane: An Unruly History Radical Brisbane", The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 51, 2005.

The sequel, Radical Melbourne 2: The Enemy Within (Vulgar Press, 2004), was described by reviewer Ian Morrison as "sparkl[ing] with furious wit ... the Sparrows are devastatingly funny."[http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?apply=reviews&webpage=api_reviews&flexedit=&flex_password=&menu_label=&menuID=homely&menubox=&Review=4951 Radical Melbourne 2: The Enemy Within] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110305231751/http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?apply=reviews&webpage=api_reviews&flexedit=&flex_password=&menu_label=&menuID=homely&menubox=&Review=4951 |date=5 March 2011 }}, The Australian Public Intellectual Network, August 2004. Accessed: 9 January 2010.

Communism: A Love Story (Melbourne University Press, 2007) is a biography of the radical intellectual Guido Baracchi, a founder of the Communist Party of Australia. The book traces Baracchi's political career from his support for the Industrial Workers of the World to his association with the Trotskyist Fourth International; it also examines his turbulent personal life and his relationships with writers such as Katharine Susannah Prichard, Lesbia Harford and Betty Roland. It was shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award.[http://www.middlemiss.org/matilda/2008/11/2008-colin-roderick-award.html 2008 Colin Roderick Award] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606203807/http://www.middlemiss.org/matilda/2008/11/2008-colin-roderick-award.html |date=6 June 2011 }}, Matilda, 6 November 2008. Accessed: 8 January 2010.

Killing: Misadventures in Violence (Melbourne University Press, 2009) is a study of the social and psychological consequences of executions, combat and animal slaughter. It was a finalist in the Melbourne Prize for Literature Best Writing Award 2009.[http://web4.ehost-services.com/melbourne/mp2009/entryform.html Melbourne Prize for Literature 2009] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091115072924/http://web4.ehost-services.com/melbourne/mp2009/entryform.html |date=15 November 2009 }}, Melbourne Prize Trust. Accessed: 8 January 2010.

Left Turn: Political Essays for the New Left (Melbourne University Press, 2012) was co-edited by Sparrow and Antony Loewenstein.

Money Shot: A Journey into Porn and Censorship (Scribe, 2012) "probes the contradictions of our relationship to sex and censure, excess and folly, erotica and vice."[http://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/title/money-shot/ Money Shot] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110063857/http://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/title/money-shot/ |date=10 November 2012 }}, Scribe Publications, September 2012. Accessed: 14 November 2012.

No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson (Scribe, 2017).{{Cite book|url=https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/no-way-but-this|title=No Way But This {{!}} Book {{!}} Scribe Publications|date=2017-02-20|isbn=978-1-925321-85-2|language=en-AU|last1=Sparrow |first1=Jeff |publisher=Scribe Publications }}

{{anchor|warnings}}Trigger Warnings: Political Correctness and the Rise of the Right (Scribe, 2018) "draws lessons from contemporary debates and historical struggles to argue for an alternative to the seemingly oppositional binary of class or identity that dominates liberal discourse".{{Cite book|url=https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/trigger-warnings|title=Trigger Warnings {{!}} Book {{!}} Scribe Publications|date=2018-10-01|isbn=978-1-925713-18-3|language=en-AU|last1=Sparrow |first1=Jeff |publisher=Scribe Publications }}{{Cite web |title=The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani {{!}} Trigger Warnings by Jeff Sparrow |url=https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/review/the-death-of-truth-trigger-warnings/ |access-date=2023-05-03 |website=Sydney Review of Books |language=en}}

Fascists Among Us: Online Hate and the Christchurch Massacre (Scribe, 2019) demonstrates "the importance of confronting the truth rather than retreating from its horrors".{{Cite web|url=https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/person-x-and-the-fascists-among-us|title=FASCISTS AMONG US: online hate and the Christchurch massacre|date=2019|website=Scribe Publications|access-date=6 December 2019|archive-date=6 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191206043507/https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/person-x-and-the-fascists-among-us|url-status=dead}}

Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating (Scribe, 2021) proposes a counter-argument to ‘we are all to blame for global warming,’ providing a solution drawn from environmental history and peoples’ actions.{{Cite book|url= https://scribepublications.co.uk/books-authors/books/crimes-against-nature-9781914484230|title= Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating|date=2021|isbn= 9781914484230|access-date=5 November 2021|last1= Sparrow|first1= Jeff|publisher= Scribe Publications}} It was shortlisted for the 2023 Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction at the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.{{Cite web |date=2023-02-01 |title=Crimes Against Nature: capitalism and global heating |url=https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/douglas-stewart-prize-non-fiction/2023-shortlisted-crimes-against-nature-capitalism-and |access-date=2023-03-01 |website=State Library of NSW}}

After completing a PhD in Creative Media at RMIT University in 2006,{{cite web|title="The Conversation: Jeff Sparrow" |date= 26 June 2012|publisher= The Conversation|url=https://theconversation.com/profiles/jeff-sparrow-10688|access-date= 5 May 2025}} Sparrow became a Research Fellow at Victoria University[http://www.vu.edu.au/higher-ed-and-tafe/arts-education-and-human-development/communication-and-the-arts/school-staff School staff] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100510062146/http://www.vu.edu.au/higher-ed-and-tafe/arts-education-and-human-development/communication-and-the-arts/school-staff |date=10 May 2010 }}, Victoria University: Higher Ed and TAFE staff. Accessed: 9 January 2010. and the editor of the literary journal Overland. His work has appeared in The Age,[http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/delivering-convenient-death-shrinks-all-our-souls/2006/12/31/1167500007419.html Delivering convenient death shrinks all our souls] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100117075454/http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/delivering-convenient-death-shrinks-all-our-souls/2006/12/31/1167500007419.html |date=17 January 2010 }} The Age, 1 January 2007. Accessed: 11 January 2010. The Sydney Morning Herald,[http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/cruel-and-unusual-punishment/2008/01/11/1199988590507.html?page=fullpage Cruel and Unusual Punishment] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105142848/http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/cruel-and-unusual-punishment/2008/01/11/1199988590507.html?page=fullpage |date=5 November 2012 }} Sydney Morning Herald, 12 January 2008. Accessed: 10 January 2010. Overland, Arena, Meanjin and other print publications; he contributes regularly to Crikey, ABC The Drum Unleashed,[http://abc.gov.au/unleashed/stories/s2787287.htm Home grown hysteria] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120701175754/http://abc.gov.au/unleashed/stories/s2787287.htm |date=1 July 2012 }} ABC The Drum Unleashed, 8 January 2010. Accessed: 9 January 2010. The Guardian Australia{{Cite web |title=Jeff Sparrow {{!}} The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jeff-sparrow |access-date=2022-11-29 |website=the Guardian |language=en}} and other online outlets. In late 2009, he began co-hosting the Aural Text show on Melbourne radio station 3RRR with Alicia Sometimes.[http://www.rrr.org.au/program/aural-text/ Aural Text] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100226172943/http://www.rrr.org.au/program/aural-text/ |date=26 February 2010 }}Triple R Program Guide. . Accessed: 20 January 2010.

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