THE SOCIALIST ALLIANCE: A REGIONAL VIEW  Andrew Coates

PRELIMINARY REFLECTIONS ON THE SOCIALIST ALLIANCE RESULTS  Mike Marqusee

THE GENERAL ELECTION AND AFTER: SOME GENERAL OBSERVATIONS  Bob Pitt

LABOUR PARTY NEC ELECTIONS: MILLBANK MANIPULATION REJECTED  Vladimir Derer

THE ITALIAN GENERAL ELECTION: SOME THOUGHTS ON THE FAILURE OF THE ULIVO AND THE RETURN OF BERLUSCONI  Tobias Abse

JOHN ARCHER MEMORIAL MEETING  Mike Calvert

THE PLACE OF TROTSKYISM IN THE LOGIC OF MARXISM  Al Richardson

ON THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING BEEN A TROTSKYIST  Cyril Smith

NO RETURN TO PHILOSOPHY!  Mike Rooke

TO BURY A BINFULL OF BHASKARITES  Ron Heisler

MARXISM AND MAYDAY  Andy Robinson

BEER RIOTS IN BAVARIA  Friedrich Engels

JAMES CONNOLLY: HIS LIFE AND MIRACLES  Brendan Docherty

INDEPENDENT LABOUR POLITICS  Martin Sullivan

LETTERS
Steven Davies  on Mayday
Joe Rassool  on the Unity Movement in South Africa
Matthew Willgress  on Healyism in the 1950s
Mike Jones  on Marxism and nationalism

CONTRIBUTORS
Andrew Coates  is a member of the Socialist Alliance in Ipswich
Mike Marqusee  is a member of the Socialist Alliance in London
Bob Pitt  is the editor of What Next?
Vladimir Derer  is secretary of the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy
Tobias Abse  is the author of  Sovversivi e Fascisti a Livorno and many articles on Italian history
Mike Calvert  is a supporter of Workers Action
Al Richardson  is the editor of Revolutionary History
Cyril Smith is the author of Marx at the Millennium
Mike Rooke  is a tutor in Economics at Ruskin College, Oxford
Ron Heisler  is a former Economics lecturer at Middlesex Polytechnic and was active for many years in Co-op politics
Andy Robinson  is a politics student and a supporter of the Campaign for Free Education
Brendan Docherty  is a lapsed Catholic
Martin Sullivan  is a member of the Labour Party