Number 248

Thursday July 9 1998

Plotters exposed - Anti-communists attempt to purge the CPGB from the London Socialist Alliance

Party notes - Socialist Hypocrisy Group

Letters - Dundee Group, Socialist Party in Ireland, John Nicholson, Dave Douglass

Hands off Russia - From The Call, paper of the British Socialist Party, July 11 1918

Campaign struggles for momentum - The SLP's Simon Harvey reports on SLP trade union campaigning

For or against inclusive democracy - Danny Hammill reports on the July 5 London Socialist Alliance general meeting

Alliances enter new phase - The opportunities for unity now look more positive, writes Anne Murphy

Hypocrisy - the proof - Alan Fox comments on Duncan Chapple's internal Socialist Democracy Group document directed at excluding the CPGB

Localist dead end - Narrow local politics threaten to blunt the LSA's edge, writes Peter Manson

Tyranny of the clock - Differences will never be overcome by limiting debate, argues Tom Ball

Dogmatic SWP abstractions - Don Preston comments on Tony Cliff's less than convincing defence of his state capitalist thesis

Loyalists rebel - Drumcree strains British-Irish agreement. Jim Blackstock reports