Number 225

Thursday January 29 1998

Dockers end fight for jobs - This defeat proves once again that the key to winning workers' struggles is to go beyond trade union forms, argues Derek Hunter

Party notes - The 'P' word

Letters - Drugs, Linda Addison, SLP, Against Nature

BSP raided - freedom of political association attacked - From The Call, paper of the British Socialist Party, January 24 1918

Islamic Welfare Party banned - Osman Aziz reports on a family feud within Turkey's ruling bloc

Programme of liberation - The Communist Manifesto is no historical footnote. It remains a brilliant analysis of the necessary conditions for and means of making social revolution, argues Jack Conrad

One banner, many flags - Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group calls for communist rapprochement

Thesis on factions - Agreed by the CPGB(PCC) and RDG(OC)

Workers Power quits SLP - John Stone of the Liasion Committee of Militants for a Revolutionary Communist International looks back at the activities of a group of SLP entryists

Scargill 'loyalist' resigns from NEC - The SLP's Simon Harvey looks at recent developments in Scargill's Socialist Labour

Loyalist killings fail to derail peace process - Jim Blackstock reports on the suspension of the UDP from the Ireland talks