National

Labour's first six months in office
When the "mood music" stops...

The persecution of the gypsies:
New Labour, old racism

Internet access for everyone
moves closer

State cover-up of high level paedophile ring

Editorial

Labour's European dilemma

Wild gyrations on world markets
The fever chart of a decaying system

20 Years Since the
death of Tom Henehan

Meeting honors life of Tom Henehan

SEP National Secretary
David North:
The principles Tom fought for have been vindicated

SEP Assistant National Secretary Helen Halyard:
Tom's memory will forever live
in this party

Central Committee member
Paul Scherrer:
Our party believes wholeheartedly
in the future of mankind

Australian SEP CC member
Peter Stavropoulos:
Lessons of the workers inquiry

International

Significant lessons from
an insignificant crisis

Jospin's first 100 days

The canonisation of
Che Guevara

Feature

International Summer School
in Australia
"The school will be a milestone in the international renaissance of Marxism

First edition of gleichheit.
German Tortskyists
Launch New Magazine

BSE/CJD

Nobel Prize given to prion theorist

Review

"There is a big idea which is at stake"

Wild gyrations on world markets
The fever chart of a decaying system

By the Editorial Board

The violent swings on international stock markets signify much more than a passing storm. They are the expression of a deep-going crisis in the world capitalist economy.

Labour's first six months in office
When the "mood music" stops...

By Julie Hyland
Following Labour's debacle over European Monetary Union, a swathe of press articles appeared questioning the government's ability to overcome its present crisis and pondering the broader problems which it had revealed.

Labour's European dilemma

Traders on the London futures market booed and jeered Tony Blair as he accompanied the Australian Prime Minister and the presidents of Sri Lanka and Uganda on a tour of the City of London's financial markets.

The persecution of the gypsies:
New Labour, old racism

By Tania Kent
The treatment meted out to gypsy families fleeing persecution and grinding poverty in the Czech and Slovak republics has been accompanied by unprecedented outpourings of racist and xenophobic hysteria whipped up by the media and the Labour government.

Significant lessons from an insignificant crisis

By Peter Schwarz
Following the crisis of October, the Italian head of government Romano Prodi has now integrated Rifondazione Comunista (Communist Refoundation) even more firmly into his austerity policies.

The canonisation of Che Guevara

Comment by Bill Vann
Thirty years after his death in a guerrilla fiasco, the remains of Ernesto "Che" Guevara were laid to rest in Santa Clara, Cuba. The long-dead Argentine-Cuban guerrilla was interred together with six of his comrades, whose bodies were also discovered last summer in an unmarked grave in the Bolivian jungle.