Number 228

Thursday February 19 1998

Itching for war - As the UN secretary general flies to Baghdad, imperialism is tooling up for war. Eddie Ford reports

Party notes - Battle looms

Letters - Humanist Marx, infallible PCC, state racism

The sense of power - From The Call, paper of the British Socialist Party, February 14 1918

Sinn Fein seeks court judgement - Jim Blackstock reports on developments in the Irish peace process

Establishment pays respects - The death of Enoch Powell has brought eulogoies from the establishment

Britain's home-grown Hitler - Danny Hammill reviews Channel Four's Mosley

Black members group - The SLP's Simon Harvey reports on attempts by Fiscite SLP members to resurrect the defunct Black Section

Love and Mr Lewisham - Jim Blackstock replies to Richard Tisdell's letter in last week's Weekly Worker

Back to normality - Don Preston bring Peter Taaffe's Socialist Party under the microscope

Sectarian methodology - Mark Fischer replies to Wokers Power's recent polemic against the CPGB

High noon at the Star - Ian Farrell reports on developments at the Morning Star

Love hurts - Andy Hannah reviews Sick: the life and death of Bob Flanagan, supermasochist

On the sidelines - The Australian left has given the ruling class a free run in the constitutional debate, writes Martin Blum