Red Banner: a magazine of socialist ideas. Issue 26 is out now. €3 / £2 from Red Banner, PO Box 6587, Dublin 6 or from usual outlets.
Articles include:
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Lebanon: Israel’s latest war
Roland Rance uncovers the background to the onslaught on Lebanon, showing up Israel’s weakness rather than its strength
SOCIALIST CLASSICS V I Lenin, What Is To Be Done?
Des Derwin takes a look at one of the most controversial of socialist polemics
Easter 1916: A left-wing rising?
Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh marks the anniversary of the Easter rising by questioning some of the political assumptions made about it
Claonadh stairiúil an charntha chaipitligh
An chéad aistriúchán Gaeilge ar bhuaicphointe An Caipiteal, mórshaothar Karl Marx
We will fight on: Racism and the Afghan hunger strike
Rosanna Flynn tells the story of this year’s protest by asylum seekers against deportation
Freud and the liberation of personality
150 years after Freud’s birth, Paul Gadsby asks what aspects of his work can be of use in the struggle for a better life
The Hidden Connolly
In an article unavailable since his execution, James Connolly calls for less philosophising and more fighting
Inspiring and saddening
Mary Muldowney reviews Ken Loach’s film of the fight for independence The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Poems of Hitler and his war
Fifty years after his death, we present the first English translation of some classic political poetry by Bertolt Brecht
Correspondence
Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh continues the Frank Ryan debate agus pléann Art de Creag 1916, Ó Conghaile agus an Ghaeilge