Number 302

Thursday September 2 1999

Blair's province of crisis - Ireland may yet prove the fly in New labour's modernising ointment. Jack Conrad reports

Party notes - The Weekly Worker will be key to transforming the relatively substantial layer of supporters around the Party into members, writes Mark Fischer

Letters - Communist Party of Turkey, Sikorski, coy Workers Power

Break Nicholson's stranglehold - Phil Watson assesses to state of the Greater Manchester Socialist Alliance in the run up to its AGM

Inconsistent democracy - Steve Riley opposes Jack Conrad's arguments for a British-Irish federal entity in a united Ireland to exercise self-determination

What kind of republic for Australia? - Marcus Larsen casts his eye over developments in Australia

New clampdown - Jim Gilbert calls for defence of New Labour's latest scapegoats

Champions of the oppressed - Michael Malkin takes the communist attitude to democracy