New Irish socialist newspaper launched

national | arts and media | news report Thursday July 05, 2007 15:54 by ISNer irishsocialistnetwork at dublin dot ie

First issue of 'Resistance' is now available

The first issue of the new Irish Socialist Network paper, 'Resistance' (the July/August edition), is now available.

The Dublin North-West Branch of the Irish Socialist Network has long produced a local newsletter, which is primarily distributed in the Finglas area. That will continue. However, a publication group drawn from the three ISN branches (Dublin Central, Dublin North West and Belfast) is now committed to regularly producing a new national paper, which has been titled 'Resistance'.

This is a full-colour production and is free. Copies can be obtained from any ISN member or (within the next few days) from a range of outlets that include Books Upstairs and Connolly Books in Dublin, and the Quay Coop and Barracka Books in Cork.

You can also get free copies by writing to the ISN at irishsocialistnetwork@dublin.ie

Several thousand copies of the first issue of 'Resistance' have been printed and the ISN hopes to gradually increase the print-run as national distribution networks and contacts develop.

Articles include:

'Election Shock: Tweedledum Wins!' (by Colm Breathnach)

'Standing with Palestine - But how?' (by David Landy, IPSC - pers cap)

'Racism and the new immigrants' (by Rosanna Flynn - RAR, pers cap)

'PSNI - Old cops, New cops' (by Brendan Harrison)

'Socialists and Elections' (by Ed Walsh)

'Saving the Planet? The Left and the Environment' (by Fintan Lane)

'The Scandal of Shannon Warport' (by Fintan Lane)

'The Nurses and Social Partnership' (by Stephen Lewis)

'Book Review: The Politics of Michael Davitt' (by Fintan Lane)

'Interview with Hands off the People of Iran Campaign' (conducted by Colm Breathnach)

...and more.