Red Banner issue 49 out now

national | anti-capitalism | other press Saturday September 15, 2012 14:57 by Red Banner red_banner at yahoo dot com PO Box 6587, Dublin 6

Issue 49 of Red Banner is out now, available for €2 / £1.50 from the address above or from bookshops

Red Banner cover Issue49 Sept 2012

Drawing on our history
Noel McDermott reviews a new book on The Irish Worker’s cartoonist Ernest Kavanagh

SOCIALIST CLASSICS Karl Korsch, Marxism and Philosophy
A book on the need to fight capitalism on all fronts, discussed by Maeve Connaughton

Céard atá ó Chonradh Spartacais?
An chéad aistriú Gaeilge ar shaothar tábhachtach a scríobh Rosa Luxemburg i lár réabhlóid na Gearmáine

The drunkenness of things being various
A collection of essays which uncomfortably break taboos is reviewed by Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh

The Hidden Connolly
Articles by James Connolly, unpublished since his execution, discuss socialism and its critics, nationalism and internationalism

Poetry
Three new poems by Kevin Higgins