Recently-released former secret United States embassy cables reinforce the long-held view that once prominent union leader and former Prime Minister Bob Hawke was also an informant for the United States government and the Central Intelligence Agency. Jim McIlroy reports.
Jeff Sparrow
鈥淕et the politics out of climate change.鈥 It鈥檚 a slogan heard almost inevitably whenever discussion turns to the looming environmental catastrophe. But, as Jeff Sparrow argues, there鈥檚 no historical parallel for the social change needed to decarbonise the developed world without huge political polarisation.
By Jeff Sparrow
, 2017
Paperback, 292 pp
Melbourne writer Jeff Sparrow鈥檚 new book, No Way But This is a thoughtful, sensitive and respectful examination of the life and work of Paul Robeson, the great African-American baritone, Shakespearian actor, and left-wing political activist.
About 70 people attended a forum on聽September 27聽in Melbourne on聽Making Melbourne a Hanson free zone. The forum was hosted by the Victorian Trades Hall Council.
Guardian Australia columnist Jeff Sparrow spoke at the forum. He said: "Billions of dollars have been spent on fighting Islam by the Government so recent polls on racism are no surprise. There is a real danger that Hanson could become the new normal, a right wing version of the Greens."