Red Banner issue 41 out now

national | anti-capitalism | other press Saturday September 04, 2010 16:14 by Red Banner red_banner at yahoo dot com PO Box 6587, Dublin 6

Issue 41 of
Red Banner: A magazine of socialist ideas
is now available from bookshops or the above address
€2 / £1.50

After Toyosi: Racism in Ireland
Rosanna Flynn examines the horrific killing of Toyosi Shitta-bey, and the lessons or socialists fighting racism

SOCIALIST CLASSICS Friedrich Engels, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany
A work with a tangled history and plenty of insights for modern revolutionaries is discussed by Maeve Connaughton

Deconstructing Israeli apartheid
Kevin Squires reviews a book that lays bare the reality of oppression for the Palestinians

Ó Conghaile à la Ó Direáin
Céad bliain tar éis breith Mháirtín Uí Dhireáin, léiríonn Pádraig Ó Snodaigh mar a chaitheadh sé súil ar chlé

Decent auld sticks
Reviewing a new history, Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh asks how the Officials’ revolution was lost, and whether similar fates lie in store

The Hidden Connolly
Nationalist politicians meet the criticism of James Connolly in articles not published since his execution

Culture and the recession
As the economy collapses and arts funding faces the axe, Kevin Higgins asks how socialists should respond