THE END OF THE INTERNET?  Dave Renton

HOW THE US ARMED SADDAM HUSSEIN WITH CHEMICAL WEAPONS  Norm Dixon

MARXIST DISCONTENTS WITH GINSBORG’S VIEW OF ITALY  Tobias Abse

SPAIN BANS RADICAL NATIONALISM  John Sullivan

THE LONDON MAYORAL ELECTION: HOW DO WE DEFEAT THE TORIES?  Martin Sullivan

LABOUR NEC ELECTION: UPHILL CLIMB BUT STILL BEST EVER RESULT  Vladimir Derer

SAKLATVALA: A COMMUNIST CANDIDATE ON A LABOUR TICKET  Jim Mortimer

THE FIRST PALESTINIAN INTIFADA 1936-1939  Rod Quinn

LIFE AFTER TROTSKYISM: A PERSONAL ACCOUNT  Harry Ratner

CERI EVANS, 1965-2002: AN OBITUARY  Ed George, Darren Williams, Leanne Wood and Brendan Young

REVIEWS

Max Elbaum, Revolution in the Air reviewed by Louis Proyect
David Osler, Labour Party plc: New Labour as a Party of Business reviewed by Bob Pitt

LETTERS

Ian Birchall  on the French Elections
Matthew Willgress  on the fall of Militant
John Brunner  on the Socialist Alliance and elections
Pete Firmin  on the Socialist Alliance and campaigns

CONTRIBUTORS

Dave Renton  is a writer and historian, currently working on a history of socialism from 1883. He has a website at www.dkrenton.co.uk

Norm Dixon  is a member of the Democratic Socialist Party of Australia

Tobias Abse  is the author of Sovversivi e Fascisti a Livorno and many articles on Italian history

John Sullivan  is the author of ETA and Basque Nationalism. His website is at http://Marxnat.tripod.com

Martin Sullivan  is a member of the Labour Party

Vladimir Derer  is secretary of the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy

Jim Mortimer  is a former general secretary of the Labour Party

Rod Quinn  is a member of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Harry Ratner  is the author of Reluctant Revolutionary: Memoirs of a Trotskyist 1936-1960. A collection of his articles Is There A Future For Socialism? is available on this site

Ed George  was a long standing supporter of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI) in Wales and now lives in the Spanish State; Darren Williams  is a supporter of Workers Action; Brendan Young  has been a supporter of the USFI in both the British State and in Ireland for twenty five years: all three were friends and comrades of Ceri Evans for many years. Leanne Wood  was Ceri Evans' partner and comrade for six years before he died. She is a committed socialist and an active member of Plaid Cymru – The Party of Wales.