THE REVIVAL OF THE LABOUR LEFT?  Tony Dale

SCARGILL’S SOCIALIST LABOUR PARTY  Ian Driver

RECOMPOSITION AND THE BRITISH LEFT  Dave Osler

WHY BRITAIN’S COMMUNISTS BACKED BLAIR  Kenny Coyle

THE UNITED LEFT UNRAVELS  John Sullivan

OPEN LETTER TO MEMBERS OF THE PRC  Marco Ferrando and Franco Grisolia

SPIN DOCTORS, MEDIA AND THE LEFT: THE HACKNEY EXAMPLE  Tony Whelan

JOHN MACLEAN AND THE SCOTTISH WORKERS’ REPUBLIC  Bob Pitt

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: A TWENTIETH CENTURY ENIGMA  Al Richardson

A LETTER AND SOME NOTES  Victor Serge

THE GERMAN LEFT AND BOLSHEVISM  Walter Held

LETTER TO YUGOSLAV COMRADES  Leon Trotsky

REVIEWS

Daniele Conversi, The Basques, the Catalans and Spain: Alternative Routes to Nationalist Mobilisation; Gershon Shafir, Immigrants and Nationalists: Ethnic Conflict and Accomodation in Catalonia, the Basque Country, Latvia and Estonia  reviewed by John Sullivan
Daniel C. Dennett, Brainstorms  reviewed by Tony Whelan
John Rees with Robert Service, Sam Farber and Robin Blackburn, In Defence of October  reviewed by Bob Pitt

LETTERS

Al Richardson  on the class basis of Marxism
Mike Jones  on Bosnia, Marxism and more
John Archer  on Trotskyist history
Adam Busby  on the Scottish national question

CONTRIBUTORS

Tony Dale  is a member of the editorial board of Labour Left Briefing
Ian Driver  is a Southwark councillor. He was SLP candidate in Vauxhall in the 1997 general election
Dave Osler  is a journalist who has worked on Tribune and Socialist Outlook
Kenny Coyle  is International Secretary of the Communist Party of Britain
John Sullivan  is the author of ETA and Basque Nationalism
Marco Ferrando and Franco Grisolia  are members of Rifondazione Comunista (PRC) in Italy
Tony Whelan  is a socialist and community activist in Hackney
Bob Pitt  is the author of the pamphlet John Maclean and the CPGB
Al Richardson  is editor of Revolutionary History