THE CEASEFIRE: NOT A STEPPING STONE TO A UNITED IRELAND  Gerry Downing

SOCIALISTS AND THE LABOUR PARTY: STAY AND PREPARE THE FIGHT  Tony Dale

TRAVELLING THE CAPITALIST ROAD: THE PEOPLES ALLIANCE GOVERNMENT IN SRI LANKA  Meryl Fernando

THE BRACEGIRDLE SAGA: 60 YEARS ON  T. Perera

MILLENNIAL POLITICS: THE NIGHTMARE OF GEORGE ORWELL  Al Richardson

AGAINST NEUTRALISM: A REPLY TO AL RICHARDSON ON BOSNIA  Y.S. (Joe) Rassool

WAR COMMUNISM IN RETROSPECT  Paul Flewers

REVIEWS

Andrew Murray, Flashpoint: World War III  reviewed by Bob Pitt
Dimitri Volkogonov, Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary  reviewed by Al Richardson
Jack Conrad, Blair’s Rigged Referendum  reviewed by Bob Pitt
Roy Bhaskar, A Realist Theory of Science  reviewed by Jonathan Joseph
Phil Sharpe, John Maclean’s Principled Perspective of World Revolution  reviewed by Bob Pitt
Jim Higgins, More Years for the Locust: The Origins of the SWP  reviewed by Jim Dye

LETTERS

John Sullivan  on socialism and the Scottish national question
J. Stone and M. Hill  on socialism and the Scottish national question
Jonathan Joseph  on Leninism and hegemony
Mike Jones  on Luxemburgism versus Leninism
Martin Sullivan  in defence of Al Richardson

CONTRIBUTORS

John Sullivan  is the author of ETA and Basque Nationalism
Gerry Downing  is a supporter of the Workers International League
Tony Dale  is a member of the editorial board of Labour Left Briefing
Meryl Fernando  is a veteran of the Trotskyist movement in Sri Lanka, and a former MP
T. Perera  is a writer and journalist in Sri Lanka
Al Richardson  is the editor of Revolutionary History
Y.S. (Joe) Rassool  is a former member of the Unity Movement in South Africa
Paul Flewers  is a member of the editorial boards of Revolutionary History and New Interventions