Number 277

Thursday February 25 1999

Smash all immigration controls - National chauvinism, not racism, is today the bourgeoisie's main ideological weapon. And, for all their official anti-racism, the police remain an organ of the chauvinist state, argues Alan Fox

Party notes - The recent assault on Eibhlin McDonald by Ian Donovan can not be judged in isolation from the internal regime of the Spartacist League 

Letters - Welfare State Network, Scargill, Spartacist League

Free Kurdistan! - The arrest of the PKK's Abdullah Ocalan sparked violent protests across Europe. Eddie Ford reports

Conquest, class and federalism - Second and final part of Allan Armstrong's response to Jack Conrad's 'Unenlightened myths' 

Determinist dogma - Phil Sharpe replies to the economistic inevitablism of Socialist News writer Don Hoskins

Challenge for working class - Mary Godwin argues that the working class must take a stance on genetically modified food

Second time farce? - The Liaison Group proposes another truncated meeting of the Network of Socialist Alliances. Marcus Larsen objects

Keep left unity on track - Left unity is proving a struggle in the northwest, reports Phil watson