Number 283

Thursday April 8 1999

Open letter to SWP members - Jack Conrad appeals to members of the Socialist Workers Party to thoroughly debate the organisation's direction

Party notes - The commission into the assault by Ian Donovan on Eibhlin McDonald has finished its deliberations. Mark Fischer at the provisional results

Letters - Ian Donovan, Socialist Party, Scargillism, EU

Arms compromise - Jim Blackstock surveys the Irish peace process

Unionists, democrats and nationalists - Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group restates the case for a federal republic

Sad but true - Anti-communist pimps for the racist British state? Don Preston investigates

The living wage and socialism - What the system can afford is not the concern of communists, writes John Walsh. The demand for £300 per week minimum income must be part of a revolutionary programme

Fight this Blairite ban - Supports grows for the fight against the registrar of political parties to ban the CPGB, SPEW and others

For revolutionary defeatism - Nato out of the Balkans, independence for Kosova, demands Michael Malkin