Number 231

Thursday March 12 1998

Boycott Blair referendum - Government proposals for a strong London mayor and a weak Greater London Authority must be rejected, argues Jack Conrad

Party notes - Don't get paranoid

Letters - Marxist Forum, nation or class, philosophy

Law and order - From The Call, paper of the British Socialist Party, March 7 1918

Straw concedes - After much protest the extradition order on Roisin McAliskey has been lifted. Eddie Ford reports

In defence of Lee Rock - Jan Berryman responds to criticisms levelled against the former SLP member in the pages of the Weekly Worker

Extending the witch hunt - Don Preston looks at the ultra-Stalinite and outlandish Economic and Philosophic Science Review

London manifesto conference cancelled - The SLP's Simon Harvey surveys developments inside Scargill's little party

Reluctant Griffiths forced to debate - Ian Farrell reports on an unusual event in the life of the CPB

CPB: still loyal to Blair - New Labour has nothing to fear from the factional struggle inside the 'official' Communist Party of Britain

Reaction fills the gap - Martin Blum reports on the Indian elections

LSA press release - Socialist Alliance to New Labour in London elections

New Labour, new corruption - While New Labour fiddles, the left prepares to fight, writes Paul Greenaway