Number 224

Thursday January 22 1998

New lurch to nationalism - Scottish Militant Labour takes another step towards separatism

Uniting London's left - Anne Murphy for the left to unite against Blair's 'patriotic front'

Party notes - Rapprochement aggregate

Letters - Philosophy, Winnie Mandela, drugs

Russia's appeal - will British workers remain silent? - From The Call, paper of the British Socialist Party, January 17 1918

Unemployed fight back - French workers battled with police. Peter Manson reports

The universe demystified - Danny Hammill reviews Denis Brian's Einstein: a life

New tendency's first meeting - First meeting of the Revolutionary Democratic Communist Tendency

Harpal Brar plants flag - Alan Fox review the latest edition of Lalkar, organ of the Indian Workers Association and edited by laeding SLP member Harpal Brar

Fisc in a twist - The SLP's Simon Harvey reports on latest developments in Socialist Labour

Fragile unity under threat - On the weekend of January 10-11, a deep and festering division surfaced in the new executive of the 'official' Communist Party of Britain. Ian Farrell investigates