Number 294

Thursday June 24 1999

Riot no answer - The anarchist 'Carnival against capitalism' struck a chord with bourgeois liberals, argues Alan Fox

Hammer and tongs - Mark Fischer reviews this year's Summer Offensive as we enter the final week

Letters - Kautskyite, Kosova, rail privatisation, juries, New CPGB?, SLP, AWL

Calling the tune - Michael Malkin surveys the mess the left has got into over Kosovar self-determination  

Fisc manifesto - We reproduce a document submitted to the SLP NEC which bears the mark of former coutiers-in-chief Fisc

Understanding the Soviet Union - Phil Watson reviews Rethinking the Soviet collapse: Sovietology, the death of communism and the new Russia (edited by Michael Cox)

Livingstone for mayor? - Maurice Bernal looks at the contest developing for the Labour nomination

After the elections - John Stone of the Liaison Committee of Militans for a Revolutionary Communist International looks at the lessons of June 10

Thatcherite emptiness - Phil Sharpe reviews Notting Hill

Unholy alliance - the Socialist Workers Party unites with bankers and bishops on 'third world' debt