• Editorial

• 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