Number 230

Thursday March 5 1998

Reaction marches - New Labour runs scared as the Tories take to the streets. Jack Conrad investigates

Party notes - Towards the Daily Worker

Letters - Bob Pitt, London Socialist Alliance, racism

Tories flounder - Alan Fox reports on William Hague's attempts to cobble together a challenge to New Labour

Imperialists 'optimistic' - Blair is confident of victory in the May 7 Irish referendum, writes Jim Blackstock

Britain and the Scots - Mary Ward critically examines some of the myths and dangers of Scottish nationalism

In defence of the Bolsheviks - From The Call, paper of the British Socialist Party, February 28 1918

Admission of failure - Don Preston reports on Workers Power's tortuous attempts to make reality fit its dogmas

RCP's designer liquidationism - The history of the Revolutionary Communist Party is instructive. Danny Hammill learns the lessons

Scargill and the Morning Star - The SLP's Simon Harvey is courting both sides in the CPB dispute

The road to oblivion - Eddie Ford looks at the short and unimpressive history of the Communist Party of Britain

Indefinite strike at Star - The sacking of the editor threatens the demise of the 'daily paper of the left'. Ian Farrell reports