Red Banner issue 59 out now

national | anti-capitalism | other press Saturday March 28, 2015 17:46 by Red Banner red_banner at yahoo dot com PO Box 6587, Dublin 6

Issue 59 of
Red Banner: a magazine of socialist ideas
is out now
€2 / £1.50 from bookshops or the address above

Army dreamers
Noel McDermott reviews two new books on the Irish Citizen Army and those who fought in it

SOCIALIST CLASSICS Leon Trotsky, Results and Prospects
75 years after Trotsky’s assassination, Maeve Connaughton examines one of his lasting contributions to revolutionary thought

Where, oh, where is our James Connolly?
Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh undercovers another sorry chapter in the publication of Connolly’s writings

I dTreo Critic ar an Eacnamaíocht Pholaitiúil: Réamhfhocal
Téacs cáiliúil cinniúnach de chuid Karl Marx aistrithe go Gaeilge den chéad uair

The Hidden Connolly
In articles unpublished since his execution James Connolly rounds on a hypocritical journalist, not to mention private property

Liam O’Flaherty and the four-day revolt
Lily Murphy tells how a soon-famous writer led a short-lived rising of Dublin’s unemployed

The magazine is usually available in the following bookshops:
Belfast: An Ceathrú Póilí, Falls Road
Dublin: Connolly Books, East Essex Street, and Books Upstairs, D'Olier Street
Galway: Charlie Byrne’s, Middle Street