Number 312

Thursday November 11 1999

SLP abolishes annual congress - Arthur Scargill consolidates his dictatorship as members voluntarily relinquish sovereignty over their organisation. Simon Harvey reports

Hands off Chechnya - Russian prime minister Putin steps up his colonial war against the Chechen people

Party notes - Livingstone's mayoral campaign could provide the focal point to move millions into political action, argues Mark Fischer

Letters - Entryism, British-Irish debate, Kosova, Livingstone, Russian Revolution

Back to obscurity - Simon Harvey reports on the final demise of the cranky EPSR group inside Socialist Labour

Armstrong's weak polemics - Jack Conrad discusses the CPGB's stance on the British-Irish in the light of history

New opportunity - The 'No' vote in the Australian referendum does not mark a defeat for republicanism. A real thirst for democratic change exists, argues Marcus Larsen

Social imperialism or working class independence - Marcus Larsen attacks Australia's Democratic Socialist Party for its support for UN/Australian military intervention in East Timor

Hutchinson addresses SSP - Billy Hutchinson of the loyalist Progressive Unionist Party spoke at the Scottish Socialist Party's 'Socialism 2000'. James Robertson reports on the far from hostile reception he received from SSP members

CWI split rumours - Scotland looks set to follow Pakistan as Taaffe's Committee for a Workers' International disintegrates