Red Banner issue 50 out now

Issue 50 of Red Banner is available now from bookshops and the address above, priced €2 / £1.50

Fifty shades of red

Austerity bites
Maeve Connaughton asks how we should oppose a recession that shows no sign of easing up on the working class

SOCIALIST CLASSICS Karl Marx, The Poverty of Philosophy
Joe Conroy discusses a book where Marxism came out fighting for a positive socialism

Labour’s love lost
As the Labour Party celebrates its centenary, Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh examines its past and present

Portráid d’athair ceannairceach
Amharcann Ciarán Ó Brolcháin ar léargas mic ar cheann foirne an Airm Chathartha, Mícheál Ó Mealláin

The Hidden Connolly
In articles published for the first time since his execution James Connolly discusses the progress of socialism at home and abroad

The cult of Collins
Lily Murphy asks why the shadow of Michael Collins lingers ninety years after his death