Number 299

Thursday July 29 1999

Ireland: weak link - Blair's strategy in Ireland is at risk - and Sinn Féin stands to gain, writes Jim Blackstock

Party notes - Mark Fischer announces Communist University '99

Letters - Trotsky, reform, Labour Party, fascism, Britrish-Irish, EPSR, USSR

Thunder in a cloudy sky - Mehdi Kia looks at the Iranian students' revolt

Imprisonment without trial - Jim Gilbert looks at Jack Straw's Managing dangerous people

Continue to victory - Dave Craig explains his theory of the 'dual power republic'

Fraught relationships - Phil Watson reviews Aesthetics and politics

The struggle for democracy - Danny Hammill raises the Leninist flag against left economism