Number 290

Thursday May 27 1999

SPEW set to splinter - Dissidents from a number of regions are about to walk out, reports Mark Fischer

Letters - Revolutionary defeatism, Kosova, Socialist Party, reformism, anarchists, euthanasia

Defend the jury - John Walsh presents a communist view on bourgeois legality

New cricket test - Official 'anti-racism' has reached the conservative world of cricket

Demon drugs and Dallaglio - Communists are for a rational approach to recreational drug use, writes Tom Ball

Human affirmation - Phil Watson reviews John Coltrane's A love supreme

Socialist Labour bull - The spirit of Royston Bull lives on in the pages of Socialist News, discovers Michael Malkin

Defend tiny Serbia - Former SLP vice-president Royston Bull sats defeating Nato is the only issue at stake in the Kosovar crisis

Marxism and democracy - Phil Sharpe replies to Jack Conrad and Dave Craig

Germany calling - The British National Party and Arthur Scargill's SLP appeal to British chauvinsim in the Euro elections

Brar revelation rocks Scargill - King Arthur is challenged over Harpal Brar's defence of Stalin

Scargill's Stalinist badge - The SLP's Simon Harvey reports on NEC member Harpal Brar's secret speech on Socialist Labour