Red Banner issue 28 out now

national | anti-capitalism | other press Thursday May 31, 2007 11:40 by Red Banner red_banner at yahoo dot com PO Box 6587, Dublin 6

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