Number 295

Thursday July 1 1999

Neither war nor peace - Northern Ireland remains a province of crisis for the Blair government

Party notes - The small Trotskyite sect, Workers Power, has descended into incoherence over the European elections

Letters - Prissy Marxism, riots, anarchism, PKK, icons

Turkey's rulers split - Aziz Demir reports on tensions over PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan in the Turkish state

Winning the peasantry - Phil Sharpe argues that the Bolsheviks were wrong to dissolve the Constituent Assembly

Unison witch hunt - Anne Murphy reports on the public sector union's attack on activists

Learning from the fascists - Mark Fischer review Fighting Talk, journal of Anti-Fascist Action

Trotsky versus the left Trotskyists - The Revolutionary Democratic Group and the CPGB hace joined forces in defence of revolutionary democracy, argues Dave Craig

Labour after the elections - Blair's honeymoon could well be over, writes Marcus Larsen

Blind to the truth - The Kosova crisis is a crisis of the left, argues Michael Malkin