CONTENTS

ARTICLE 1
Editorial 1:The Alliance – more necessary than ever

ARTICLE 2
Editorial 2: What’s really behind the "ultra-left" debate?

ARTICLE 3
The key challenge facing the movement in the NDR: unity in the ANC and unity of the Alliance. By Phillip Dexter, SACP National Treasurer.

ARTICLE 4
Black Shadows and Red Herrings: A Rejoinder to the Moleketi-Jele Pamphlet.
By Oupa Bodibe (COSATU Secretariat Co-ordinator), Patrick Craven (Editor of the Shopsteward) and Vukani Mde (COSATU Spokesperson) in their personal capacities.

ARTICLE 5
We are Communists and Proud. By Nhlanhla Buthelezi, an SACP KZN Provincial Executive Committee member.

ARTICLE 6
Right-wing opportunism masquerading as revolutionary democracy and revolutionary socialism: a response to Moleketi and Jele. By David Masondo, SACP member based in the Limpopo Province and member of the NEC of the ANC Youth League.

ARTICLE 7
The Political Balance of Forces: A COSATU perspective. Extract from a COSATU CEC Political Discussion Paper released on 1 December 2002

ARTICLE 8
The role of progressive unions in a stable democracy. Extract from a COSATU CEC Political Discussion Paper released on 1 December 2002

ARTICLE 9
The Mining Charter. By Gwede Mantashe, General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers and member of the SACP Political Bureau.

ARTICLE 10
HIV/AIDS and Land: Case Studies from Kenya, Lesotho and South Africa. By. Dr. Scott Drimie, senior research specialist at the HSRC

ARTICLE 11
Threat to Humanity - Bush's New Military Doctrine. By Sam Webb, National Chairman, Communist Party of the USA

ARTICLE 12
The revolutionary essence of Fela Kuti's music. By Oke Ogunde, of the Workers' Alternative in Nigeria

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