Number 243

Thursday June 4 1998

Poverty wage - Derek Hunter demands the left fight for what we need

Party notes - Jack Conrad takes the RDG's Dave Craig to task over his defence of the 'Dundee Group'

Letters - Rapprochement, Revolutionary Democratic Communist Tendency

The offensive against The Call - Excerpt from The Call, paper of the British Socialist Party, May 30 1918

The will to win? - Marcus Larsen surveys the sitaution in Indonesia

Too high a price to pay - Former Scottish Militant Labour member Tom Delargy gives his views on SML's break with the Socialist Party and its embrace of nationalism

Theatre of dissent - Jack Conrad reviews Seeing Red, the Battersea Arts Centre festival of new writing

Breaking imperialism's rules - Pakistan and India now possess nuclear weapons. Are these anti-imperialist bombs or proto-imperialist arms?

Back to normal - Don Preston looks st the left after the Irish referendum and is unsurprised at the lack of politics

London left routed - The SLP's Simon Harvey reports on his party's May 30 London Regional Conference

CPB war of attrition - Ian Farrell anticipates this weekend's Morning Star AGM and the factional battle over control of the 'official' communists

Peace strike threat - Jim Blackstock warns of a potential strike against dissident republicans