Number 317

Thursday December 16 1999

Challenge to London unity - Sectarians within the Campaign Against Tube Privatisation are undermining unity in the mayoral challenge

Red-brown cesspit - Michael Malkin examines the Great Russian chauvinism and anti-semitism of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation

Party notes - Mark Fischer looks at the role of spies within the workers' movement following the death of John le Carre's 'Harry'

Letters - Livingstone, Auto-leftism, Scottish Socialist Party, British-Irish

Scargill's GLA slate - The SLP's Simon Harvey assesses his general secretary's decision to contest elections to the Greater London Authority

Faction ended - Statement from the Revolutionary Democratic Group

Capitalism and its decline - Many in the workers' movement now accept what are erroneously called market values. So is capitalism set to dominate the 21st century? Did Marxism get it wrong about the decadence and decline of capitalism. Hillel Ticktin addressed the CPGB's Communist University earlier this year on these and other questions

Change and flux - Danny Hammill reviews Almost like a whale: The origin of the species updated, the latest offering from Steve Jones

Banal identity reasoning - Phil Watson reviews Frank Kofsky's John Coltrane and the jazz revolution of the 1960s

Passion for change - John Walsh reviews Dave Douglass' All power to the imagination

Human.liberation.com - Economic and technology revolution lays the basis for communism, argues Dave Craig

Strategy and tactics - Has the Weekly Worker "collapsed into shabby opportunism" over Ken Livingstone's bid to become London mayor? Maurice Bernal responds to some criticism

Stakes are high - Left debates attitude toward Livingstone, reports Don Preston