Number 281

Thursday March 25 1999

SWP in crisis - Scargill's decision to contest the Euro elections has thrown Tony Cliff's organisation into disarray

Party notes - Mark Fischer launches an urgent financial appeal to challenge our banning by the registrar of political parties

Letters - EPSR, Socialist Alliance, Scottish Socialist Party, EU democracy

Bull and Fisc still in - The SLP's Simon Harvey reports on an unexpected stay of execution

Self-determination and the federal republic - Fourth and final part of Jack Conrad's reply to Allan Armstrong of the Scottish Socialist Party

Europe, the unions and crisis - The Merseyside Socialists, who recently left or were suspended from the Socialist Party in England and Wales, continue their critique of the leadership

Progress on NW slate - John Pearson reports on developments in the North West Socialist Alliance

Cold war legacy - Phil Watson reviews Formation 60 - modern jazz from Eastern Germany

Neither the pound nor the euro - Danny Hammill takes Socialist Outlook's Alan Thornett to task over his 'Little Englander' defence of the pound

Hands off Kosova and Serbia - Independence for Kosova - imperialism out of the Balkans, demands Eddie Ford

No exclusion of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - Unity against the UK state must be the outcome of Saturday's Socialist Alliances conference in Birmingham, writes Ian Farrell