• Paul Collin : The Tragedy of the Chinese revolution
• "The Awakening of the Chinese workers' movement"
• Damien Durand : The birth of the Chinese Left Opposition
• Pierre Broue : Chen Duxiu and the Fourth International
• International Communist League : The peasant war in China
• Frank Glass : The Communist League of China
• Zheng Chaolin : On the nature of revolution
• Peng Shuzi : Trotskyism in China
• Wang Fanzi : Problems of Chinese trotskyism

Obituaries

• Sam Bornstein
• Paula 'Kitty' Watson

Work in Progress

• The Centro Studi Pietro Tresso, Italy

Reviews

• Sally L D Katary : Land tenure in the Rameside Period
• Arif Dirlik : The Origins of Chinese communism
• Roy Medvedev : Let History Judge
• R. W. Davies : Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution
• 'Marxism and the Great French Revolution', International Socialism no 43

Letters

• John T. Cldwell on Guy Aldred
• Jens-Peter Steffan on Trotsky in GDR
• Keith Flett 'on method'
• Richard Whyte attacking Richardson's review of Ted Grant(richardson Replies)
• Tom Kemp on Popular Fronts