Issue 60 of
Red Banner: a magazine of socialist ideas
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Across the roar of guns
Maeve Connaughton reviews a new selection of voices raised against the horror of the first world war
SOCIALIST CLASSICS Aleksei Badayev, The Bolsheviks in the Tsarist Duma
Tara O’Sullivan asks what can be learned from the experiences of a socialist deputy in Russia’s pre-revolutionary parliament
How did Trotsky lose?
Seventy five years after Leon Trotsky’s assassination, Joe Conroy tackles the enigma of his defeat at the hands of Stalin
Ag baisteadh na réabhlóide: An Ghaeilge ar shóisialachas
Tugann Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh cuairt ar na friotail éagsúla a cuireadh ar an sóisialachas i nGaeilge in imeacht na mblianta
The Hidden Connolly
James Connolly comments on the politics of nationalism, labour and socialism in articles unpublished since his execution
The political contradictions of Yeats
A century and a half after W B Yeats was born, Kevin Higgins discusses the politics in the poetry