Editorial

John McIlroy, Al Richardson (1941-2003): An Appreciation

Ottokar Luban, Rosa at a Loss: The KPD Leadership and the Berlin Uprising of January 1919: Legend and Reality

Karl Retzlaw, From the Kapp Putsch to the March Action

August Thalheimer, 1923: A Missed Opportunity?: The Legend of the German
October and the Real History of 1923

August Thalheimer, The Fifth Congress of the Communist International and its Results

August Thalheimer, The Strategy and Tactics of the Communist International

Alexander Vatlin, The Programme Discussion in the Communist International

Paolo Sensini, Beyond Marxism, Anarchism and Liberalism: Bruno Rizzi's
Scientific and Revolutionary Path

Reviews

James P Cannon, Max Shachtman, Leon Trotsky and Others, Dog Days: James P Cannon vs Max Shachtman in the Communist League of America, 1931-1933 (Al Richardson)
Jean-Pierre Hirou, Du trotskysme au communisme libertaire (Ian Birchall)
Martyn Housden, Hans Frank, Lebensraum and the Holocaust (Dave Renton)
Robert Morrell, The Gentle Revolutionary: The Life and Work of Frank Ridley: Socialist and Secularist
Michael Parenti, The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of
Ancient Rome (Chris Gray)
Sylvain Pattieu, Les camarades des frères: trotskistes et libertaires dans
la guerre d'Algérie (Ian Birchall)
Georg Scheuer, Seuls les fous n'ont pas peur (Esther Leslie)
Jean Marc Schiappa, Les babouvistes (Ian Birchall)
WG Sebald, On the Natural History of Destruction (Sheila Lahr)
David Stack, The First Darwinian Left: Socialism and Darwinism 1859-1914
(Andrew West)
Anne Kerr and Tom Shakespeare, Genetic Politics: From Eugenics To Genome (Andrew West)
Ian D Thatcher, Trotsky (Al Richardson) (Sheila Lahr)

The Comintern and its Critics

• Editorial

I: Those Against

• John McIlroy, New Light on Arthur Reade: Tracking Down Britain's First Trotskyist

• Fritz Keller, Trotskyism in Austria

• Charles Wesley Ervin, Philip Gunawardena: The Making of a Revolutionary

II: All Change

• Walter Kendall, The Communist International and the Turn from 'Social-Fascism' to the Popular Front

• Jean-Jacques Marie, The Journal of Georgi Dimitrov

III: Family Quarrels

• Ante Ciliga, How Tito Took Over the Yugoslav Communist Party

• John McIlroy, Rehabilitating Communist History: The Communist International, the Communist Party of Great Britain and Some Historians

IV: Objections Overruled: Spain

• Grandizo Munis and Jaime Fernández, Corrections to the Cahiers Léon Trotsky, no 227

• Augustin Guillamón, The Investigation of the Spanish Bolshevik-Leninists (1938)

John McIlroy, John Archer (1909-2000)

Obituaries

Work in Progress

Reviews

• Albert Archar (ed), The Legacy of Ernest Mandel (Brian Green)

• Communist Workers Organisation, Trotsky, Trotskyism, Trotskyists (Al Richardson)

• Georg Lukács, A Defence of History and Class Consciousness: Tailism and the Dialectic (Cyril Smith)

• Dave Renton, Fascism, Anti-Fascism and Britain in the 1940s (Sheila Lahr)

• Janet Richards and Mary Van Buren, Order, Legitimacy, and Wealth in Ancient States (Al Richardson)

• Victor Serge, Witness to the German Revolution (Mike Jones)

• Wilebaldo Solano, El POUM en la historia: Andreu Nin y la revolución española (John Sullivan)

• Ian D Thatcher, Leon Trotsky and World War One, August 1914-February 1917 (Al Richardson)

• Amir Weiner, Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution (Paul Flewers)

• Barry Lee Woolley, Adherents of Permanent Revolution: A History of the Fourth (Trotskyist) International (Al Richardson)

Letters

Readers' Notes