Number 278

Thursday March 4 1999

ILN-SWP try to oust CPGB - Marcus Larsen reports on unsvaoury events at a meeting of the Socialist Alliance in London

Party notes - Questions of Party discipline come under scrutiny

Letters - Insulting, bourgeois Labour, IRSP, Esperanto

Uncomfortable unanimity - Tom Delargy of the Scottish Socialist Party reflects on its founding conference

Unprincipled manoeuvres - The secretary of the Independent Labour Network claims "cock-up not conspiracy" for his exclusion of leftists and other elements within the Socialist Alliances

Call for SLP compromise - In a last desperate move as party members, officers of West Ham, Lewisham East and Deptford CSLPs break Scargill's ban on the circulation of documents

Still loyal to Arthur - Royston Bull, editor of the EPSR and vice-president of the SLP, was expelled last month. We reproduce the main text of his January letter to Scargill just before he was hauled before the notorious complaints committee

Tailing Macpherson - The left has taken up the banner of bourgeois anti-racism

In defence of definition - First part of Jack Conrad's reply to Alan Armstrong of the Scottish Socialist Party

Bull expelled - The SLP's Simon Harvey reports on the exit of the vice-president and the Appeal faction's final bid for Scargill's favours