Number 284

Thursday April 15 1999

SWP collpases before Scargill - The Socialist Alliance is not "credible enough" for the SWP. It has abandoned the field to Arthur's little sect

Party notes - The Party has been banned from using its name in the European elections.

Letters - Kosova, red-brown, Stalinist?, EPSR, Nick Long

Merseyside closed down - The SLP's Simon Harvey reports on events in Scargill's SLP

SWP runs away, SPEW shrivels - Crisis in the North West Socialist Alliance. Phil Watson reports

Wrong method - Alan Fox castigates the left for their miserable minimum wage demands

Balkans war and the left - Michael Malkin calls for Nato defeat and independence for Kosova

What sort of federal republic - Tom Delargy slams the politics of Dave Craig

Towards a more truthful history - Jack Conrad reviews Simon James' The Atlantic Celts: ancient people or modern invention?

Left in disarray - The left is at sixes and sevens over the Kosova conflicts, writes Tom ball