Number 270

Thursday January 7 1999

Fighting for a democratic Europe - What does the launch of the euro mean for workers? Eddie Ford investigates

Party notes - Attempts to agree a joint statement on Iraq with the US Marxist Workers Group and others failed. Mark Fischer explains why

Letters - Workers International League, praxis

Red Ken for mayor? - Mark Osborn of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty relates the strange story of Ken Livingstone and Workers Fight

On alienated ideology - Phil Sharpe discusses the relationship between the world communist movement and Stalinist ideology

Bowled out by spin - Michael Malkin discusses the implications of the Mandelson resignation

Centrifugal liquidation - After Scotland and the resignation of national organiser Mike Waddington, Peter Manson looks at the Socialist Party's loss of Merseyside

Irish republican socialists retreat - John Bridge reports on the December 5 IRSP conference

United challenge - Mark Fischer reports on the by-election challenge in Hackney's North Defoe ward

What is Socialist Unity? - Platform for the North Defoe by-election