Number 308

Thursday October 14 1999

Workers' control - The Ladbroke Grove disaster demands a working class response

Party notes - The Socialist Workers Party is less than enthusiastic about the London Socialist Alliance

Letters - Consistent democracy, British-Irish, Labour Party lobby

Blair loads the dice - New Labour difficulties over Livingstone present opportunities for the left, writes Terry Fenton

Protestant veto - Lenin opposed self-determination for the British-Irish, writes Tom Delargy

Not a country but a battle cry - Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group argues that the British-Irish musr accede to the wishes of the majority

Tory lurch to right - After Blackpool the Conservative Party under Hague looks unelectable, argues Michael Malkin

Hero and criminal - Ian Mahoney reviews Mike Marqusee's Redemption song: Muhammad Ali and the spirit of the sixties

Vote apple or orange - James Robertson reviews Election

Liquidationist step - Socialist Party dissidents to attend Socialist Network conference