Number 271

Thursday January 14 1999

Vote Socialist Unity - The CPGB's Anne Murphy reports on the by-election battle in Hackney's North Defoe ward

United Socialists edge forward - The left is moving tentatively towards mounting an electoral challenge in the June Euro elections

Party notes - Livingstone for mayor?, asks Mark Fischer

Letters - Petty bourgeois, Jesus, Mumia Abu-Jamal, National Front

Not to bring peace - Danny Hammil draws parallels between Jesus and Che Guevara

Scargill goes public - The SLP's Simon Harvey reports on developments in Scargill's party

Tendency debates Bull - Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group argues that SLP members should demand action against Socialist Labour's vice-president

Impossible utopia - Hillel Tickin addressed the CPGB's Communist University '98 on market socialism. We reproduce his speech

Network must choose - The London Socialist Alliance shows the way ahead, writes John Bridge