Issue 56 of
Red Banner: a magazine of socialist ideas
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Cutting both ways
Maeve Connaughton reviews an attempt to understand and oppose the austerity agenda
SOCIALIST CLASSICS Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Tara O’Sullivan discusses a book outlining a revolutionary approach to education and social change
Bringing Tressell home
Henry Gibson looks at a new book uncovering the Dublin roots of classic socialist novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Ár mbeatha agus ár dtalamh
Aistí sóisialacha nua-aimsithe le Pádraic Ó Conaire, foilsithe den chéad uair ó 1920
The Hidden Connolly
Scabs, housing, Jim Larkin, partition, and world war are discussed by James Connolly in articles unpublished since his execution
The wit and the wisdom: Behan and O’Casey
Lily Murphy remembers two socialist greats of Irish literature fifty years after their death