Number 252

Thursday August 20 1998

Turning point - Despite outward appearances, last Saturday's Real IRA bomb marked a definitive break with the republican strategy of armed resistance to British imperialist occupation of the Six Counties, writes Jim Blackstock

Party notes - Communist University '98

Letters - Soviet Union, CPGB in crisis?, Trotskyite?, age of consent, Young left journal

Open letter not published - Dave Craig looks into the different positions within the Scottish Socialist Alliance

Congress farce - The SLP's Simon Harvey reports on chaos and ham-fisted bureaucracy at work in the run-up to his party's congress

Two constitutions - Two very different structures are on offer at the Rugby conference of the Socialist Alliance. 

Criticism of the past - Don Preston rebuffs criticism from Mark Osborn of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty

The greening of socialism - Terry Liddle of the Green Party opened discussion on red-green cooperation at Communist University '98. We reproduce extracts

Groping towards a theory - Jack Conrad reviews The fate of the Russian Revolution Vol 1, a collection of writings edited by the AWL's Sean Matgamna

Under the censor's knife - The Blair project includes even more restrictive film classification, writes Tom Ball

Anti-working class sham - The government has sought to cover up state-sponsored terrorism in the wake of the Shayler-Tomlinson revelations. Viktor Melor reports