Left Focus

  BY DR TRISTAN EWINS ; ALP MEMBER OF OVER 30 YEARS The ALP has long been characterised by internal ideological divisions between self-identifying social democrats and self-identifying so...

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    ABOVE:  ANTONIO GRAMSCI DEVELOPED IDEAS OF ‘WAR OF MOVEMENT’ AND ‘WAR OF POSITION’: ARGUING THERE WAS MORE THAN ONE ROAD TO CHANGE.   DR TRISTAN EWINS    The other day...

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  Dr Tristan Ewins   It is now approaching a decade since Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest was approached by then Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, to advise on the creation of a ‘cashless welf...

http://leftfocus.blogspot.com/2021/10/rejecting-cashless-welfare-card-good.html

  PLUCKROSE, HELEN AND LINDSAY, JAMES, ‘Cynical Theories – How Universities Made Everything about Race, Gender and Identity – and Why This Harms Everybody, Swift Press, London, 2020 ...

http://leftfocus.blogspot.com/2021/04/responding-to-cynical-theories-critique.html

       ABOVE: ACCESS TO SUNLIGHT, FRESH AIR AND GARDENS CAN IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE IN AGED CARE Dr Tristan Ewins The Aged Care Royal Commission had laid down its findings.  These...

http://leftfocus.blogspot.com/2021/03/funding-and-services-crucial-for-aged.html

DR TRISTAN EWINS     In today’s ‘modern Left’ ‘Zionism’ is often taken as a term of abuse.  The oppression and dispossession of the Palestinians is widely seen as negating the...

http://leftfocus.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-zionism-of-mutual-recognition-and.html

                     ABOVE: COURT APPEALS ASIDE, A BIDEN-HARRIS VICTORY NOW SEEMS CERTAIN        DR TRISTAN EWINS   As a Biden-Harris victory becomes apparent in the Unit...

http://leftfocus.blogspot.com/2020/11/democrats-need-to-galvanise-working.html

  WHEN RIGHTISTS USE ORWELL TO DISCREDIT SOCIALISM AND ANTIFA THEY OFTEN NEGLECT THAT HE WAS A SOCIALIST HIMSELF.   AND HIS CRITIQUE OF TOTALITARIANISM IS BROADER THAN A CRITIQUE OF STAL...

http://leftfocus.blogspot.com/2020/10/responding-to-legacy-of-george-orwell.html

ABOVE: AUSTRALIA INSTITUTE ECONOMIST, RICHARD DENNISS Dr Tristan Ewins CoVid 19 has hit the Australian economy hard.   By some estimates the Australian economy will shrink by approxima...

http://leftfocus.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-19-has-hit-economy-but-where-is.html

THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE - WHICH THE AUTHOR PLANS TO SUBMIT FOR PUBLICATION BY THE AUSTRALIAN FABIANS - IS AN IN DEPTH SURVEY OF THE BACKGROUND AND OPTIONS FOR DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM IN AUSTRALIA...

http://leftfocus.blogspot.com/2020/05/on-socialism-today-planning-way-forward_13.html

above: While Menzies was far from without fault, on many issues today's Liberal Party would be unrecognizable for him.  Dr Tristan Ewins Much is said about the clash between the liberal...

http://leftfocus.blogspot.com/2019/08/above-while-menzies-was-far-from.html

DR TRISTAN EWINS Writing in the Herald-Sun, Chris Collins (11/1/19 ) argues that the Nordic countries have never been “socialist” because they have not conformed to the original Marxist...

http://leftfocus.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-prospects-for-socialism-today.html

ROSA LUXEMBURG AND KARL LIEBKNECHT DR TRISTAN EWINS 16/1/2019 Comrade Marcus Strom alerted me and many others on Facebook that 15/1/19 was the 100th Anniversary of the brutal murder of C...

http://leftfocus.blogspot.com/2019/01/rosa-luxemburg-and-karl-liebknecht-dr.html

DEAR FRIENDS AND COMRADES; We’re Promoting an Updated version of the ‘For an Equal and Democratic Australia’ Model Platform for the ALP. The program is updated for 2018 from a very ...

http://leftfocus.blogspot.com/2018/01/for-equal-and-democratic-australia.html

ABOVE: AUSTRO-MARXIST LEADER AND THEORETICIAN, OTTO BAUER Does (and should) 'Revolutionary' mean anything anymore to the Democratic Socialist Left? Should it mean anything anymore within t...

http://leftfocus.blogspot.com/2017/10/what-does-revolutionary-mean-to.html

DEBATING MARX'S ‘LABOUR THEORY OF VALUE’ AND 'MARX ON THE ENVIRONMENT' ON THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF MARX’S ‘DAS KAPITAL’ (VOL I) ; RESPONDING TO THE CRITICS. DR TRISTAN EWINS  ; ...

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150TH ANNIVERSARY OF MARX'S DAS KAPITAL ; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS EVENT ; NEW INTERNATIONAL BOOKSHOP MELBOURNE, SEPTEMBER 7TH. PLEASE COME ALONG AND SHOW YOUR INTEREST AND SUPPORT. I WILL BE T...

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above: Former Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union organiser, Don Sutherland     IN THIS ARTICLE GUEST WRITER DON SUTHERLAND ARGUES THE CASE FOR A STRATEGY TO REVERSE THE DECISION OF ...

http://leftfocus.blogspot.com/2017/02/why-and-how-fair-work-commissions-cuts.html

What follows are another series of letters I have written to the ‘Herald-Sun’ and ‘The Age’during the December 2016 to January 2017 period.   NONE WERE PUBLISHED.  But I hope it sp...

http://leftfocus.blogspot.com/2017/02/what-follows-are-another-series-of.html

ABOVE:  HUMANITY DOES NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE ; WHAT ABOUT DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL LITERACY IN OUR EDUCATIONAL CURRICULA? PROGRESSIVE LETTERS TO 'THE AGE' AND 'THE HERALD-SUN' ; (NOVEMBER...

http://leftfocus.blogspot.com/2016/12/letters-from-labor-activist.html

Mourning the Death of Fidel Castro and Remembering Readers are encouraged to discuss Castro's legacy, and what happens in Cuba now Tristan Ewins News today of the passing away of former C...

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above: An Exhausted Hillary Clinton after the Shock Donald Trump Presidential Victory 'POLITICAL CORRECTNESS' IS A COMMON BOGEY DEPLOYED BY THE RIGHT IN ORDER TO WEDGE THE LEFT ; BUT HERE '...

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ABOVE:  THE ECONOMIC POLICY CONTEST BETWEEN CLINTON AND TRUMP IS MORE INTERESTING THAN A FIRST GLANCE MAY SUGGEST DR TRISTAN EWINS This week I begin my blog post with a correction.  In ...

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above:  The Herald-Sun commonly questions the right to protest , but doesn't question its own assumptions re: the availability of work , or the right to refuse exploitative employmentThe fol...

http://leftfocus.blogspot.com/2016/10/freedom-and-mutual-respect-letters-for.html

ABOVE:  TONY BLAIR URGES BILL SHORTEN TO 'RETURN TO THE CENTRE' By TRISTAN EWINS The ‘Weekend Australian’ (8/10/16) quotes former Labour British PM, Tony Blair as urging Bill Shorten t...

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