Number 285

Thursday April 22 1999

Unity crumbles before Scargill - Jim Blackstock and John Pearson report on the crisis in the Socialist Alliances

Crisis of perspectives - The de-labourisation of Labour has caused problems for the SWP's leadership

Letters - Scargill, Nato apologists, North Defoe by-election, Soviet Union, Auto-Labourism

Abolish age of consent - The House of Lords have staged a reactionary revolt of gay rights. The answer is clear, writes Eddie Ford

Republican communist network - Dave Craig reports on moves to launch a republican communist network in Scotland

Self-determination and Kosova - Sandy McBurney is wrong about self-determination, argues Michael Malkin

Balkans war unites internationalists - The needs for a revolutionary response to the Kosova crisis has brought sections of the left together

Peace or class war - Mary Godwin attacks the SWP for its social-pacifism

Social-pacifists and peaceniks unite - The SWP has linked up with CND in Manchester Against the War. Derek Hunter reports

Livingstone faces both ways - 'Loyal' Ken keeps up the pressure on Blair, writes Alan Fox