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Number 421

Thursday February 28 2002

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Support Israeli army refuseniks
James Mallory reports on cracks opening in the Israeli war machine and calls for support

Letters
Beds SA faction; Euro referendum; Keep 'em out; US party

Simon Harvey of the Socialist Labour Party: Short-lived celebration
Arthur Scargill may be cock-a-hoop over the Ogmore by-election, but the SLP continues its downward spiral

Alternative tio New Labour?
Bill Jeannes looks at the politics of George Monbiot and the greens

Socialist Alliance paper 'not viable'
Letter to the Communist Party from the Alliance for Workers' Liberty, February 22 2002

• Reply to Martin Thomas
  Jack Conrad replies to the AWL

Royal controversy: Elizabeth the Last
Marcus Ström calls for antipodean comrades to raise the demands of democratic republicanism

Trotsky and the Thermidorian chapter
The fight to prevent the degeneration of the Bolsheviks was handicapped by an excessive desire to make analogies with the French Revolution, argues Martyn Hudson. In the first of two articles he looks at how Marxists in Russia drew parallels with the downfall of the Jacobins in 1793

Sex divisions and pseudo science
Have men and women - or blacks and whites - being ‘pre-programmed’ by evolution to be different? Danny Hammill replies to the SSP’s Kevin Williamson

CPGB aggregate: Debating perspectives
Mary Godwin reports on the recent meeting of Communist Party members

Socialist Alliance reports

• Eastern: Regional revival
• Teesside: Workers' candidate

Milosevic trial: Settling of scores
The butcher of Belgrade is being tried by bloody imperialism. Maurice Bernal gives a communist response

SSP needs unity
Ronnie Mejka calls on the Scottish Socialist Party to reject independence at this weekend's delegate conference