Number 223

Thursday January 15 1998

Peace train back on track - Blair hopes that a 'Council of the isles' will secure a new imperialist stability in Ireland, writes Jim Blackstock

Party notes - Party schools

Letters - Drugs, modest demands, Lukacs, Althusser

Chicherin and the Petrovs released - and deported - From The Call, paper of the British Socialist Party, January 10 1918

Cross your fingers - Don Preston looks at the official optimism of Peter Taaffe's Socialist Party

SLP left splits - again - Anti-communism is anti-communism, no matter who imposes it. Voided SLP member John Bridge at the antics of Martin Wicks

A republican party of the working class - Jan Berryman analyses developments in the SLP from a republican-communist angle

Abolish the block vote - Discussion document from SLP Fiscite, Richard Tisdell

Democratic Platform builds new unity - The SLP's Simon Harvey looks at positive developments in Socialist Labour

Tilting at windmills - Alan Fox replies to Tom Ball's article on anti-Roma prejudice

Blair puts the boot in - New labour expels Ken Coates and Hugh Kerr. Paul Greenaway reports

Euro rebel defies Blair - Ken Coates talks to the Weekly Worker about the need to build a fightback