Number 226

Thursday February 5 1998

Bloody Sunday hypocrisy - Blair's announcement of a new judicial enquiry has already provoked tensions within the ruling class, writes Jim Blackstock

Party notes - One step forward

Letters - Racism, philosophy, Workers Power correction

All power to the soviets - From The Call, paper of the British Socialist Party, January 31 1918

History lessons - Anna Weber reviews James Baque's Crimes and mercies - the fate of German civilians under Allied occupation, 1944-1950

Thesis on revolutionary openness - Thesis agreed at CPGB members' aggregate

Miserly payouts for miners - Former NUM activist Dave Douglass reports

On party censorship - The SLP's Simon Harvey reports on developments in Scargill's Socialist Labour

Glorious isolation - Don Preston reviews the latest Socialist News

Facing the fire of Korean unification - How has a divided Korea impacted upon the working class? Lee Min Young looks at the relationship between class struggle and unification

Civil war at Morning Star - Ian Farrell reports on the dispute the 'official' CPB's tired rag

Threat to Iraq grows - As Clinton sinks deeper in the mire, a diversionary strike is on the cards. Danny Hammill investigates

London Socialist Alliance launch - Anne Murphy welcomes tonights launch of the London Socialist Alliance