Red Banner issue 46 out now

national | anti-capitalism | other press Wednesday December 07, 2011 10:08 by Red Banner red_banner at yahoo dot com PO Box 6587, Dublin 6

Issue 46 of Red Banner is out now, available from bookshops or the address above for €2 / £1.50.

“Socialism is the objective”
An interview with Tommy McKearney, activist and author of The Provisional IRA: From Insurrection to Parliament

SOCIALIST CLASSICS Wang Fan’hsi, Memoirs of a Chinese Revolutionary
Daniel Finn on the recently unearthed testimony of a Trotskyist who held to his socialist vision against the odds

From here to austerity
Maeve Connaughton reviews a new book that traces the way Ireland’s ruling class got us into our current mess

Rogha ban Éireann
Áitíonn Sinéad Nic Íomhair go bhfuil sé in am éirí as an bhfimíneacht agus cur ar son ceart an ghinmhillte

The left and the language
Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh explores the range of left-wing responses to the Irish language, and argues for a socialist attitude

The Hidden Connolly
James Connolly, in articles unpublished since his execution, exposes indifference to workers’ concerns, and the real scandal of war

Looking for a political soul sister
Allan Armstrong replies to our review of his From Davitt to Connolly