Red Banner issue 33 out now

national | anti-capitalism | other press Wednesday September 03, 2008 10:35 by Red Banner red_banner at yahoo dot com PO Box 6587, Dublin 6

Issue 33 of Red Banner is available now at €2 / £1.50 from bookshops or from the address above

Lisbon: Between two referendums
Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh draws lessons from the defeat of the treaty for the likely re-run of the referendum

SOCIALIST CLASSICS Karl Marx, Marginal Notes on the Programme of the German Workers’ Party
Joe Conroy examines a work which looks closely at the shift from capitalist to communist society

Remembering the Irish Women’s Franchise League
A hundred years after its foundation, Mary Muldowney looks back at a pioneering group in the fight for women’s rights in Ireland

Ciníochas agus an ghéarchéim eacnamaíoch: Cá bhfuil an eite chlé?
Agus caipitlithe na hEorpa ag cothú an chiníochais, áitíonn Rosa Cañadell gur mithid dúinn iad a fhreagairt

The need for internationalism from below
Scottish socialist Allan Armstrong calls for the left to reply in kind to the strategies of the British and Irish ruling classes

The Hidden Connolly
In wartime articles unpublished since his execution, James Connolly draws bitter lessons from the 1913 Dublin lockout

Poetry to save lives
Kevin Higgins reviews a collection of politically engaged poetry