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The best president money can buy

BY NORM DIXON The United States' biggest corporations delivered more than US$35 million in 31 days to pay for George W. Bush's January 19-20 inauguration parties, the New York Times reported on January 18. Most of the money came in separate

Retro Country Joe

Eat Flowers & Kiss BabiesCountry Joe McDonald and the Bevis FrondWoronzow Records<http://www.woronzow.com.uk> REVIEW BY BARRY HEALY If you are going to trip down memory lane, you should at least go with someone who knows the meaning of

Rory McLeod: 'unorthodox and brilliant'

Mouth to MouthRory McLeodThrough Shock RecordsOrder at <http://www.rorymcleod.com> REVIEW BY JOHN GAUCI "I want my songs to keep memory alive. I suppose I'm trying to tell history from working peoples point of view. Politics to me is

Appeal for Socialist Alliance candidates

[The following is a slightly abridged version of a letter addressed to "all left parties and individuals" posted on the internet on January 25. It was signed by John Percy, national secretary of the Democratic Socialist Party, and Peter Boyle, the

Locked out workers picket luxury hotel

BY TONY ILTIS& JUSTINE KAMPRAD MELBOURNE — Fourteen maintenance workers have set up a picket line outside the luxury Grand Hyatt Hotel after management locked them out on January 19. The lockout followed seven months of negotiations for an

Did the East Timor intervention kill off 'Vietnam syndrome'?

BY NORM DIXON Questions have been raised by some on the Australian left and, more recently, by ruling class commentators in the wake of the December release of the Howard government's defence white paper: Did the Australian government's 1999

Government announces preferred sites for nuclear dump

BY JIM GREEN The federal government announced on January 24 its preferred sites in South Australia for a controversial national dump for about 10,000 cubic metres of low-level radioactive waste — much to the disgust of environmental groups and

DSP calls for socialist electoral alliance

BY PETER BOYLE The Democratic Socialist Party has written to other left parties and prominent left activists to initiate discussions around fielding common "Socialist Alliance" candidates in the coming federal elections. The DSP is seeking

INDONESIA: Wahid surrenders sovereignty to IMF

BY MAX LANE In an end of year "state of the nation" report, the central leadership council of the Peoples Democratic Party (PRD) described economic developments during 2000 under the government of President Abdurrahman Wahid and Vice-President

Aborigines protest Invasion Day

BY BRONWEN BEECHEY ADELAIDE — More than 80 people attended a speakout and candlelight vigil to mark Invasion Day on January 26. The meeting was held outside Government House, on what has become known to Aboriginal activists as Genocide Corner,

Write on: letters to the editor

Congratulations Happy 10th Anniversary! Aziz ChoudryGATT WatchdogAotearoa (NZ) Palestine A response to the letter, "Israel and Palestine" published in GLW #432. Zionists and their adherents are fond of claiming that they do not occupy

In defence of Bob Dylan

BY TOM FLANAGAN In his review of Clinton Heylin's Bob Dylan biography (GLW #433), Phil Shannon attacks Dylan on the basis that he sold out on his politics. Shannon fails to grasp that Dylan was never a political activist. His music took up