Number 298

Thursday July 22 1999

Time bomb - Blair's constitutional modernisation programme will provoke Tory revolt and schisms in the ruling class, predicts Jack Conrad

Party notes - Mark Fischer sees cryptic messages in recent issues of Socialist Worker

Letters - Anti-Fascist Action, AWL, Workers Power, Kautsky, anti-CPGB, EPSR, revolutionary violence

Comrade 100% - Dave Craig looks at Trotsky's position on China

Crisis around the LRCI - John Stone of the Liasion Committee of Militants for a Revolutionary Communist International examines the contradictions in Workers Power's attitude to New Labour and the Balkans war

Modest differences - Phil Watson responds to Jack Conrad on the USSR and the power of ideology

Spontaneity and the trap of Labourism - A member of the expelled minority of the CWI USA section slams the leadership of Peter Taaffe and Lynn Walsh

Stoking the fire - Tories play the English nationalist card, reports Michael Malkin

Iran's students demand democracy - Marcus Larsen reports on events in the islamic state

Need for programme - Peter Manson highlights the failure of the AWL the break fully from auto-Labourism

Alliance or party? - Dave Spencer continues the debate on divisions that arose over the West Midlands European elections, and discusses the future of the Socialist Alliance