Number 311

Thursday November 4 1999

Ken ups tempo - Livingstone's campaign to become London mayor has the potential to galvanise the working class. That's why he should be supported, argues Michael Malkin

Grasp the nettle - Australians go to the polls this Saturday. Marcus Larsen believes genuine republicans cannot accept what is on offer

Party notes - Mark Fischer looks forward to the forthcoming CPGB school on the national question

Letters - Livingstone, Scottish Socialist Party, Delphi, British-Irish debate

Arthur's coup d'etat - Simon Harvey reports on developments in Scargill's Socialist Labour Party which holds its third - and possibly final - congress this weekend

Scargill and Scargillism - Dave Osler discusses the lessons he draws from two years of SLP membership

SWP conference - We reprint some of the less tedious submissions in the Socialist Workers Party's Pre-conference bulletin

Defending revolutionary democracy - John Stone insists that the British-Irish can have no right to secede

RCN debates - Mary Ward reports on the first school of the Repubican Communist Network