Number 296

Thursday July 8 1999

Auto-Labourism in crisis - New Labour's continuing march to the right has caused panic among the left

Marxism - The Socialist Workers Party's annual school starts on Friday, July 9. Mark Fischer assesses the event and the organisation behind it

Letters - Riots, AWL, British-Irish, Workers Power, Kautskyism, revolutionary democracy

Sub-reformist - Peter Manson critiques the election platform of the AWL's Jill Mountford

Trotsky's 'class treason' - Ian Donovan discusses the International Bolshevik Tendency and the 'Spartacist tradition'

Turning the GM tide? - Mary Godwin reviews Luke Anderson's Genetic engineering, food and our environment: a brief guide

Approach spurned - Statement from the West Midlands Socialist Alliance in response to the article by Dave Spencer in Weekly Worker 293

Storming heaven - Gerry Downing pays tribute to John Toland, an Irish influence on the materialist philosophy of Marx and Engels

Time to change course - Pat Strong of the Socialist Party questions the Taaffe leadership

SWP's new-found modesty - The Socialist Workers Party shows signs of recognising that all is not rosey in the socialist garden