Number 233

Thursday March 26 1998

Reclaiming our rights - Trade union bureaucrats are not so happy with Blair now - but they distrust the rank and file far more. Derek Hunter writes

Party notes - Leaving the Party

Letters - Lee Rock, SWP, Britain and Scotland

The altruistic friends of Russia - From The Call, paper of the British Socialist Party, March 21 1918

Mainstream right gets bloody nose - The French elections saw advances for Le Pen's Front National. Eddie Ford investigates

Management retreats - Ian Farrell reports on developments in the Morning Star strike

Welsh road to British road - Mark Fischer highlights some moments from the career of Robert Griffiths, general secretary of the CPB

Balance of failure - Martin Blum examines some of the lessons to be learned from two years of the Socialist Labour Party

Republicanism and the national question - Should Marxists fight for a republic undr capitalism or wait until the socialist revolution? We reprint SLP republican Dave Simpson's speech in the debate with the Marxist Bulletin on March 4

SLP to boycott Blair's referendum - The SLP's Simon Harvey looks at developments in Scargill's little party

English Alliance moves at last - Anne Murphy reports on last Saturday's national meeting of the Socialist Alliance Network of England