Number 289

Thursday May 20 1999

SLP wreckers fail in Coventry - Arthur Scargill's rapidly declining sect is attempting to sabotage any left advance

Party notes - Mark Fischer notes the inability of elements of the Socialist Alliances to recognise our existence

Letters - Anti-racism, SWP, republicanism, Kosova

SPEW's empty words - Taaffe's rump Socialist Party refuses to take sides in the Kosova war

Marxism and national self-determination - Part II of Jack Conrad's look at spontaneous economism and the challenge of revolutionary democracy

Exposing the fault lines - Philip Bounds reviews Perry Anderson's The origins of postmodernity and Frederic Jameson's The cultural turn: selected writings on the postmodern 1938-1998

Enriched pit culture - Dave Douglass reviews Paul Cox's The foreigner

Juxtaposition - Phil Watson reviews the Courtney Pine Band's recent concert in Liverpool

Dr Who socialism - 'Delphi' replies to Royston Bull, former vice-president of the Socialist Labour Party

Shadowing Blair - The Socialist Workers Party is tailing Blair and his bourgeois anti-racism, writes Eddie Ford