• Editorial

Narrative

• Baruch Hirson : The economic background to South Africa
• Baruch Hirson : Resistance and socialism in South Africa
• Baruch Hirson : The trotskyist groups in South Africa
• Ian Hunter : Raff Lee and the pioneer trotskyists of Johannesburg
• Baruch Hirson : The trotskyists and the trade unionists
• Baruch Hirson : Profiles of some South African trotskyists

Documents

• Preliminary correspondence (On the founding of the first group in SA, Thibedi, Trotsky)
• The land question : Race and class (Items by Burlak, Ruth Fischer and the WPSA)
• The Trade Unions (Burlak, Max Gordon)
• Party and Class (Burlak)

• The Coming War (Averbach, Burlak)

Work in Progress

• In memoriam Andreu Nin
• In memoriam Wolfgang Waclav Salus
• Note on Ian Thatcher's reports on Russian developments

• Note on recent publications in Germany

• Robert J Alexander : International Trotskyism 1929 - 1985
• Robert Fine : Beyond Apartheid
• Hillel Ticktin : The politics of race
• Bob Edgar : An african american in South Africa
• Robert Tucker : Stalin in power

• RC Elwood : Inessa Armand

Letters

• James Robertson on Shachtman and the Bolivian revolution
• Mike Jones on Bolivian problems
• Harry Ratner on Spanish republicans and the French military
• Walter Kendall on Marxism and the theory of the workers' states
• Paul LeBlanc on Richardson's review of his book (Vol 4 no 3), with reply by Richardson
• John Mathieson on the revolutionary movement
• Paolo Casciola on Edmond Samarakoddy