RED BANNER : a magazine of socialist ideas : issue 24 out now:

national | anti-capitalism | other press Monday April 03, 2006 23:31 by EMcC red_banner at yahoo dot com RED BANNER, PO Box 6587, Dublin, 6.

Contents:

Venezuela at a turning point
Daniel Finn reviews an account and analysis of the unfolding revolutionary developments in Venezuela

SOCIALIST CLASSICS Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
A critical examination by Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh of one of Marxism’s best-known works

Don’t do as I pay: Social partnership and double standards
As the rich tell us to moderate our pay demands, Des Derwin shows that they don’t practice what they preach

Domhandú, dúshaothrú agus dídhaonnú
Fiosraíonn Colm de Faoite domhandú an chaipitleachais agus an scrios a imríonn sé ar chosmhuintir an domhain

Too obvious for his own good
Kevin Higgins is profoundly unimpressed by the political memoirs of Ruairí Quinn

Oscar Wilde: Realising utopias
Mary Muldowney reviews a new edition of The Soul of Man under Socialism

A revolutionary misfit: Jack White
Kevin Doyle celebrates the life and writings of a mercurial revolutionary

The Hidden Connolly
Published here for the first time since his execution, James Connolly attacks the politicians’ hypocrisy about ‘the spirituality of the Irish’

Knifeman
Tomás Mac Síomóin welcomes a collection of poetry that tells it like it should be

Striking back
A poem by Gary King

Correspondence
Both Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh and Pádraig Ó Snodaigh criticise an article from our last issue

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