Number 300

Thursday August 19 1999

300 - Mark Fischer marks the 300th issue of the Weekly Worker

Party notes - The London Socialist Alliance was 'relaunched' at the beginning of August. Peter Manson reports

Letters - Workers Power, LRCI, Communist University, racism, state socialism

Debate and controversy - The recent CPGB Communist University was stimulating and inspiring, writes Mary Godwin

Taaffe loses Pakistan - The disintegration of Socialist Party, along with its Committee for a Workers International, continues to accelerate. We reproduce statements from the CWI's Special International Bulletin (October 1998): the first annoucing the suspension from the CWI of the Labour Party of Pakistan, the second an edited version of the LPP national committee's response

Europe and the politics of the offensive - The left has failed to grasp the nature of European integration and the possibilities it offer for revolutionaries, writes Jack Conrad

The right to think - The recent defeat of the British Board of Film Classification raises the question of why it exists at all, writes Jim Gilbert

System failure - James Robertson reviews The Matrix

Yeltsin's last throw - Michael Malkin reports on Russia's disastrous downward spiral