Number 229

Thursday February 26 1998

Peace process settlement near - Despite the bombs Sinn Fein will be back in the talks in time to hear the final proposals, writes Jim Blackstock

Party notes - The sound of silence

Letters - Race, Steven Kitson, political prisoner

The last war - From The Call, paper of the British Socialist Party, February 21 1918

Don't fear the reefer - Danny Hammill argues for the legalisation of all drugs

New threat to liberty - Plans for the compulsory registration of freemasons should ring alarm bells among revolutionaries. Peter Manson explains

Sectarian isolation - Don Preston brings Workers Action under the microscope

Clique politics - Terry Watts looks at the role of Lee Rock and the Socialist Perspectives group

Scare stories - The SLP's Simon Harvey looks at developments inside Scargill's little party

In the sectarian swamp - John Stone of the Liason Committee of Militants for a Revolutionary Communist International looks at the further degeneration of the Workers Power group

Morning Star strike begins - The hidden factional battle inside the 'official' CPB has spilled over into industrial action. Ian Farrell reports 

War threat remains - Iraq retreats but imperialist build-up continues. Eddie Ford surveys developments