Red Banner issue 28 out now
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Thursday May 31, 2007 11:40
by Red Banner
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The latest issue of Red Banner: a magazine of socialist ideas is available now. €2 / £1.50 from the above address, or from good bookshops. The Red Banner website is also now on line.
Iranian politics and the US threat
With the risk of war hanging over the country, Ed Walsh examines the political scene in Iran
Socialist Classics: Che Guevara, ’Socialism and the New Man in Cuba’
Forty years after Guevara’s death, Joe Conroy examines the vision and the weaknesses of his great essay
Citizen Army women in the GPO in 1916
Ann Matthews begins a series uncovering the hidden history of working-class women who fought for a workers’ republic
Sláinte na gcomhlachtaí, easláinte an phobail
Nochtann Marie Ní Chonchubhair, údar an leabhair nua Emergency, na bealaí a bhfuil an nualiobrálachas ag milleadh an chóras sláinte
Capital gains
Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh reviews a new book on Marx’s masterpiece
The Hidden Connolly
A speech and an article never published since his execution illustrate James Connolly’s militant trade unionism
Goats and sheep, pinkeens and tadpoles: Drawing the line with sectarianism
Des Derwin enters the debate on sectarianism and the left
Comments (2 of 2)
Jump To Comment: 1 2Ta suimh idirlin sin datheangach - i nGaeilge comh maith le Bearla. De gnath ni thugann an eite cle Cothrom na Feinne dar dteanga. Fair play agus comhghairdeas do Red Banner mar sin.
Colm Breathnach shows the relevance of a work written a century and a half ago to contemporary struggles. A shorter version of this article first appeared in Red Banner 27 .
This short work is as good a place as any for someone to approach Marx for the first time before they take on the, somewhat daunting but hugely rewarding Capital, or the eminently readable but over-polemical Communist Manifesto. It is widely acknowledged as one of Marx’s most brilliant works and a work that still attracts much interest, because it is seen by many as a practical application of his general methodology, the archetype of the Marxist approach to history, as well as being a piece of incisive and committed journalism. The pamphlet describes and analyses the events spanning the period from the overthrow of the Orleanist monarchy in February 1848 to the coup d’etat of Louis Bonaparte (Napoleon III), Napoleon Bonaparte’s nephew, in December 1851. Written shortly after the events described, it was originally intended as a series of articles for Die Revolution, a journal aimed at left-wing German exiles in the USA, but eventually appeared in book form as the sole issue of the same journal. Read the review here.
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