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Fugazi goes post-punk

The ArgumentFugaziAvailable at <http://www.dischord.com/bands/fugazi.shtml> REVIEW BY ALLY BLACK Fugazi are pioneers of the US punk scene. Their origins lie in the political and "straight-edge" scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s,

Red Earth kicks Custer's arse

When Worlds CollideRed EarthThird Mesa Music<http://www.tribalstew.com> REVIEW BY BILL NEVINS ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — Peruvian Christian Orellana's well-amped peace pipe cuts through the rattle and gibber of a crowded south-western

PAKISTAN: Crackdown draws mixed reactions

BY EVA CHENG In a televised speech on January 12, Pakistani military ruler General Pervez Musharraf banned two Islamist groups active in Kashmir — Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed. The bans have helped ease military tensions between India and

CENTRAL ASIA: US war machine digs in for long stay

BY NORM DIXON Under the cloak of the "war on terrorism", the United States is rapidly moving to establish a permanent military presence across the strategic Central Asian region which, until the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, was off-limits to

Loose cannons

Progress I "It says much about a country when a decision that will be financially detrimental to its 36 million people is a sign of progress." — Luke Collins, New York columnist for the Australian Financial Review, commenting on the Argentine

ACEH: Total support for general strike

BY MAX LANE There has been almost total support in Aceh for the three-day general strike called by the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) for January 16-18 to protest against the decision of the Indonesian government to re-establish an Aceh Military

Write on: Letters to the editor

Mbeki and AIDS In my article in GLW #475 I wrote that some of the pseudo- scientists that South African President Thabo Mbeki has used to defend his AIDS denialism are members of the Klu Klux Klan. Brian Souter (Write On, GLW #476) writes that

Socialist Alliance: battering down the barriers

BY LISA MACDONALD SYDNEY — On January 10, the NSW Socialist Alliance submitted an application for registration as a party with the State Electoral Office which, if successful, will enable the alliance's name to be printed on ballot papers in the

LATIN AMERICA: A not-so-happy new year

BY LUISA ARA The intense mobilisations in Argentina in December have placed Latin America in the spotlight. Despite rigorous application of neo-liberal economic policies and tax adjustments demanded by the International Monetary Fund, no Latin

RUSSIA: Argentina: an example to emulate

BY BORIS KAGARLITSKY MOSCOW — There is a saying that the way you see in the New Year is the way you're going to spend it. Whether this is true or not, the events occurring in Argentina ought to serve as a serious warning for ruling groups and

Immigration maintains a white majority

BY SARAH STEPHEN Australia's immigration intake is non-discriminatory and fair, according to federal immigration minister Philip Ruddock. Yet a comparative analysis of immigration figures indicates that Australia, more markedly than any other

Poem: Fair go

This is the land of the fair goAh, were it soWe promise refugees a fair gobut only if they go some where elseNow you can't say fairer than that BY JOHN TOMLINSON From Green Left Weekly, January 23, 2002. Visit the Green Left Weekly home page.