Number 239

Thursday May 7 1998

State attacks right to think - There is a hidden agenda of censorship behind the chorus of outrage over the Mary Bell biography, writes Eddie Ford

Party notes - Fight nationalist poison

Letters - South Africa, Workers Power, Scargillism lives

The wish father to the thought - From The Call, paper of the British Socialist Party, May 9 1918

SPD follows New Labour lead - Kathrin Maurer reports on Germany April 26 local elections

Referendum silence - Blair's plans for London mayor went unchallenged by most of the left. Don Preston reports

Pooling our strength - Danny Hammill reports on the May 3 London Socialist Alliance election meeting

Delivering the masses - In the second of three articles on South Africa Peter manson looks at the role of the South African Communist Party

Cold war babies - Phil Watson reviews Phil Cohen's Children of the revolution - communist childhood in Cold War Britain

Reviving the political - Jack Conrad interviews Lisa Goldman, artistic director of the award-winning Red Room about its 'Seeing red' festival of new political plays

Fight for revolutionary internationalism - As Europe unites from above, so must those below, argues Marcus Larsen