Number 238

Thursday April 30 1998

Learn the lessons of Magnet defeat - The working class must break with Labourism if the balance of class forces can be reversed, argues Derek Hunter

Tough target - Stan Kelsey looks forward to this year's Summer Offensive

Party notes - Long live May Day!

Letters - Open debate, Lambeth Socialist Alliance, invauable Weekly Worker, Zoora Shah

May Day - From The Call, papaer of the British Socialist Party, May 2 1918

Communist challenge - The CPGB is standing two candidates in Manchester's local elections. Steve Riley reports

Communist manifesto - Vote CPGB on May 7

Backing Blair on May 22 - The left gives its blessing to Blair's imperialist peace in Ireland

Rosser removed - The CPB's factional war rumbles on. Ian Farrell reports on developments

Capital backs Mandela - In the first of three articles Peter Manson analyses the process of capitalist consolidation following the transition from apartheid

National communism and brother No1 - Following the death of Pol Pot, Jack Conrad analyses Khmer Rouge national socialism in Kampuchea

TUC prepares retreat - TUC leader Monks will not reclaim our rights, warns Marcus Larsen