Number 279

Thursday March 11 1999

Left unites - Last Tuesday saw the launch of the Socialist Alliance in London. Danny Hammill reports

Party notes - Mark Fischer reports on discussions at the March 7 members' aggregate

Letters - Federal republic, Stalin, Sinn Fein, eccentric SLP

North West to stand - There will be a united socialist challenge in the Euro elections, writes Phil watson

No public criticism - The Australian Democratic Socialist Party refused a representative of the CPGB permission to attend its 18th national conference. We reproduce their explanation of why they took this course

Revolutionary openness - Marcus Larsen replies to the Democratic Socialist Party

Origin myth and the dialectic of progress - Part II of Jack Conrad's reply to Allan Armstrong of the Scottish Socialist Party

Scargill calls up Brar - The SLP's Simon Harvey reports on his general secretary's desperate search for new allies as his party continues to shrink