Number 275

Thursday February 11 1999

Irish peace in deadlock - As Trimble and Adams go to the brink, anti-imperialists need a new strategy, argues Jim Blackstock

Letters - Regroupment, North Defoe by-election, Iraq, homosexuality 

On prediction and partial knowledge - John Walsh attacks Don Hoskins and Phil Sharpe

False picture - Former secretary of the GDR's Esperanto Association Detlev Blanke argues that Stan Keable's 'Hurricane of persecutions' misrepresents a complex question

Economists fall out - Socialist Outlook and the Alliance for Workers' Liberty have fallen out over the Welfare State Network

No Fisc fight -  The SLP's Simon Harvey reports on the failure of Fisc to mobilise the membership in their defence

Royston Bull: facts and Fisc - John Pearson surveys homophobia and opportunism in the Socialist labour Party

Defeatism or defencism - The CPGB's refusal the 'defend Iraq' is no error. Jack Conrad replies to James paris of the Marxist Workers Group

Unlikely martyrdom - Maurice Bernal examines the implications of the Hoddle affair