Number 301

Thursday August 26 1999

Quake hits workers - Aziz Demir reports on the Turkish earthquake

Party notes - Jack Conrad prsents his draft theses, Ireland and the British-Irish

Letters - Communist unity, internationalism, Kosova, rave, Iran

Communists and left splits - Ken Livingstone challenge for the Labour Party nomination for London mayor provides a potential to split activists away from Blair's party, argues Michael Malkin

Could Steve Hedley have kept his job? - Mark Metcalf argues that the strike in defence of Steve Hedly need not have been defeated

'Official communists' open up - Will Robert Griffith's be the Death of the Communist Party of Britain, asks Mark Fischer

Politics and money - The CPB faces a financial as well as political crisis

Sikorski witch-hunted - The SLP's Simon Harvey reports on the relentless disintegration of Scargill's party