Number 304

Thursday September 16 1999

Peter Taaffe's political leprosy - Pat Strong of the Socialist Party demands the organisation's leaders come clean on differences over the SWP and left unity

Party notes - Mark Fischer reports on the first meeting of the London Socialist Alliance

Letters - British-Irish, Ireland, self-determination, East Timor, communist unity, Melita Norwood

Greater Manchester annual general fiasco - The AGM of Greater Manchester Socialist Alliance marked a further degeneration of the organisation

Informer Metcalf's infantile disorder - Steve Hedley replies to Mark Metcalf who argued that comrade Hedley' had 'turned his back' on his supporters by accepting a union official's job with Ucatt

Workers assimilation - Mark Fischer reports on comrade Esen Uslu's recent special seminar

Direct aid for Turkey - Appeal from Day-Mer Turkish and Kurdish Communist Solidarity Centre

Freedom for East Timor - even if imperialism intervenes - Michael Malkin provides a Marxist perspective on Indonesia

Self-determination and Ireland - Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group argues against self-determination for the British-Irish

British Irish divisions - Mary Godwin reports on the September aggregate of the CPGB

Final snub for Fisc - SLP member Simon Harvey reports on the final humiliation for Brian Heron and Carolyn Sikorski