• Editorial
• Jakob Reich : The First Years of the Communist International
• Arthur Rosenberg : The Kapp Putsch and the Working Class
• Udo Winkel : Paul Levi and his significance for the communist movement in Germany
• Paul Levi : Introduction to Trotsky's "The Lessons of October"
• Ernest Rogers : A comment on Paul Levi's article
• August Thalheimer : The struggle for the United Front in Germany
• Jacob Walcher : Notes on the conversations between Trotsky and Walcher 17 - 20 August 1933
• Mike Jones : Germany 1923
• Victor Serge : Observations in Germany 1923
• Bernard Reichenbach : The KAPD in retrospect

Work in Progress

• Note from Conquest on information in Volkogonov on the assassination of Trotsky
• Note on a video on the murder of Nin
• Brief notes on recent German publications from Decaton Verlag
• Announcement of a new historical review from the Socialist Labor Party
• Announcement of the London Socialist Historians Group
• Note on recent Hungarian publications from the Soviet archives
• Announcement of "Socialist History"

Reviews

• Willie Thompson : The Good Old Cause ; British Communism 1920 - 1991
• Alan McKinlay & RJ Morris (eds) : The ILP on Clydeside 1893 - 1932
• Tom Buchanan : The Spanish Civil War and the British Labour Movement
• John Graham (ed) Yours for the Revolution ; "The Appeal to Reason" 1895 - 1922
• Tom Winnifrith (ed) : Perspectives on Albania
• Jose Iriarte "Bikilia" : Do the workers have a country ?
• Frank Girard & Ben Perry : The Socialist Labour Party 1876 - 1991
• Michael Lowy : On changing the world
• Wolfgang and Petra Lubitz (eds) Trotskyist Serials Bibliography
• Robert J Alexander : International Trotskyism 1929 - 1985 (Casciola's comments on Romania)
• Alan Wald : The Responsibility of Intellectuals
• Eugene Strouhal : Life in Ancient Egypt

Letters

• Hillel Ticktin on South Africa
• Casciola on the Wuppertal symposium (See Vol 4 No 4 Work in Progress)
• Paul Buhle, with reply from Al Richardson on CLR James
• Bob Archer on Sam Gordon and Brandler
• Peter & Cyril on Prins Rajasooriya
• Albert Glotzer on Sam Gordon
• Tim Wohlforth on Bolivia