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Where now for Socialist Alliance
Despite the election of Michael Lavalette in Preston, the Socialist Alliance project is still in danger of floundering. Jack Conrad assesses the tasks for partisans

Letters
Not revolutionary; SA polled well; SA is dead; Rejoin Labour; Good result; Exclusion; Allah akhbar; Distortion; Mr Bobby; Get a life; Fighting BNP; Galloway; May Day

Scapegoating nonsense
Phil Hamilton reviews the website of the British National Party

Fighting all year round
The Socialist Alliance’s first elected councillor is Michael Lavalette, who overturned a huge Labour majority in Preston in the May 1 local elections in England. Peter Manson spoke to him

BNP gains from left default
Kit Robinson points up the very real failings of the left in the May 1 local elections

Elections 2003
Scotland has “put socialism back onto the agenda”. But is Scotland so different from England and Wales? What sort of campaign did the SSP conduct? And is the SSP beyond criticism? Our reporters give some answers

• SSP jumps from one to six
  Ronnie Mejka welcomes success in Scotland
• True allegiance
  The six SSP MSPs dedicated themselves to serve the people. Alan Fox reports
• More than its parts
  The SSP's successes would not have happened had the comrades remained an alliance, argues Sarah McDonald
• Mark Steele's beacon
  Has the SWP discovered a taste for partyism, enquiries Sarah McDonald
• Left on the margins
  Scargill's Little Party failed miserable in Wales. Cameron Richards reports
• Mackay re-elected
  Peter Manson gives a brief roundup of the left's performance on May 1

Relaunch the alliance
The Socialist Alliance needs a shot in the arm and some genuine commitment if it is to move forward, writes Marcus Strom

Barrier to workers’ party
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group takes issue with Alan Thornett and his anti-party bloc with the Socialist Workers Party

Galloway witch-hunt and Stop the War
Ian Donovan responds to those who would throw the dissident Labour MP to the wolves

Scotland shows unity is strength
Dave Osler fears an English trouncing if the Socialist Alliance does not get its act together

Panic and prejudice
The Sars outbreak is being used as a political weapon, writes Jeremy Butler

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