Red Banner issue 35 out now

national | anti-capitalism | other press Thursday March 05, 2009 16:35 by Red Banner red_banner at yahoo dot com PO Box 6587, Dublin 6

Red Banner: a magazine of socialist ideas
Issue 35 out now
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Alternative Ulster
Ed Walsh reviews a book of essays challenging the consensus on northern society and politics in the aftermath of the troubles

SOCIALIST CLASSICS N Lenin, ‘Left-Wing’ Communism: An infantile disorder
Joe Conroy examines the strengths and weaknesses of Lenin’s last book, on socialist strategy

Why can’t they see the Basques?
Diarmuid Breatnach calls on the left to take up its rightful place in solidarity with the Basque fight for self-determination

Éilíonn céasadh Gaza fóirithint
Tar éis an ionsaí is deireanaí ó Iosrael, áitíonn Colm de Faoite go gcaithfear réiteach a bhunú ar chearta na bPalaistíneach

Getting with the programme: Labour, the Dáil and the Democratic Programme of 1919
Ninety years after Dáil Éireann was founded, Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh examines how Labour made its way on to the agenda

The Hidden Connolly
James Connolly tells a story of Dublin poverty, unpublished since his execution