Number 249

Thursday July 16 1998

Loyalist split - The arson attack on a Ballymoney council house has driven a wedge between pro- and anti-agreement unionists, writes Peter Manson

Party notes - Suspicion

Letters - 20-hour week, Austro-Marxism and Bill Bonnar, state capitalism, drugs

The enemy at home - From The Call, paper of the British Socialist Party, July 18 1918

Opportunism knocks - Marcus Larsens slates the AWL's Mark Sandell for his kow-towing to the trade union bureaucracy

Summer Offensive '98 - The struggle continues

For a new party - We print a "totally open and public document for discussion amongst members and sympathisers of the London Socialist Alliance" written by Toby Abse of Lewisham SA

A reply to comrade Abse - John Bridge responds to comrade Abse's document

Revolutionary democrats and a right of reply - Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group takes issue with the CPGB's national organiser

Principled minority - The cohering of an opposition in the Alliance for Workers' Liberty points to a break with lesser-evil methodology

Open fight for communism - Peter Manson reports on the July CPGB members' aggregate

Lenin's heir - Supporters of the Marxist Bulletin and the International Bolshevik Tendency reply to Mark Fischer's 'Frozen in dogma'