'I slept with Major and Kinnock'

In fact we all did. Who could avoid nodding off while trying to follow their dull pre- election campaigns, and the accompanying stories about the boring little sex lives of boring politicians?

At a time when, East and West, the world is changing so fast, British electoral politics remain an insomniac's dream. The parties should count themselves lucky if enough voters get out of bed to give any of them a majority.

The one place where the election campaign will be worth following is in the pages of Living Marxism. We are less interested in discussing what the politicians do to whom in private than in exposing how they are doing the same thing to the public. If you want to break out of the grey and stay awake until polling day, don't miss April's Living Marxism election special - in your newsagents on 26 March.

4 Editorial: the construction of the Islamic Bomb

6 Letters

8 Benetton: what's the fuss about? Jenny McLaren

11 Ann Bradley

12 An election without issues Tessa Myer

15 The Daily Dirt Tessa Myer

16 Scotland: what is not happening Kirk Williams

18 Music: a classic deception Mark Reilly

19 Toby Banks

20 Return of the Anti-Nazi League Eddie Veale, Kenan Malik

23 Kurds and Codes in Hackney Andrew Calcutt

24 'Who controls the past...' Frank Füredi

28 Eastern Europe: dustbin of history Irene Miller

29 JFK: no more heroes Emmanuel Oliver

30 How to invent a nation Joan Phillips

35 Women still aren't equal Sara Hardy

36 Living:

40 Frank Cottrell-Boyce on TV

43 The Marxist Review of Books: The Columbus debate

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