Red Banner issue 38 out now

international | anti-capitalism | other press Thursday December 10, 2009 10:03 by Red Banner red_banner at yahoo dot com PO Box 6587, Dublin 6

Issue 38 of Red Banner is available now.
€2 / £1.50 from bookshops or the above address.

What’s left of republicanism?
Maeve Connaughton reviews a new book tracing the history and prospects of left-wing republicanism

SOCIALIST CLASSICS Rosa Luxemburg, Mass Strike, Party and Unions
Joe Conroy takes a look at a book that examines the active role of the working class in revolutionary upheaval

Poetry, politics and the left
An interview with Galway poet Kevin Higgins raises the role of art and the failings of the left

Comhdháil Phoblachtach na Gaeilge
75 bliana ó bunaíodh an Chomhdháil Phoblachtach, cíorann Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh taobh na Gaeilge dá cuid saothair

The Hidden Connolly
Unpublished since his execution, James Connolly discusses class interests and patriotism, and Belgian workers’ fight for democracy

Mining soul deep: A lesson in history
25 years after the British miners’ strike, Michelle Charlton continues her look at how music played in solidarity with the struggle