Number 246

Thursday June 25 1998

Appeal to members - As the Scottish Socialist Alliance takes nationalist road, Jack Conrad raises the alarm

Party notes - Assessing Trotsky

Letters - Scottish Socialist Party, right of reply, drugs

George Plekhanov - From The Call, paper of the British Socialist Party, June 20 1918

Tory split on Ireland - Sections of the establishment has raised opposition to Blair's peace process. Jim Blackstock reports

Australian left at sea - Marcus Larsen reports on the left's incoherence in the face of Pauline Hanson's ultra-right One Nation party

Police shift on Lawrence - Alan Fox reports on shifts in state ideology

SSA plunges into nationalism - Anne Murphy reports on the third annual conference of the Scottish Socialist Alliance held last weekend

Union strains aid Scargill - The vacuum on the left of the trade unions offers opportunities the Scargill's SLP, reports Derek Hunter

Like or lump it - The SWP reluctantly admits that elections form an important part of political life, writes Don Preston

Threat to London Socialist Alliance - The LSA is in danger of collapse. Anne Murphy calls working class partisans to rally to its defence