Red Banner issue 43 out now

national | anti-capitalism | other press Saturday March 05, 2011 17:49 by Red Banner red_banner at yahoo dot com PO Box 6587, Dublin 6

Issue 43 of Red Banner: a magazine of socialist ideas
Out now from bookshops or the address above for €2 / £1.50

Women and the fight for freedom
Mary Muldowney reviews a new history of the roles played by women in the independence struggle

SOCIALIST CLASSICS Felix Morrow, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain
75 years after Spain rose against fascism, Maeve Connaughton looks back at a contemporary analysis of the revolution

Between the darkness and the dawn
A collection of poetry exploring the problematic ambiguities of the left is reviewed by Henry Gibson

Téisí i dtaobh Feuerbach
An chéad aistriúchán Gaeilge ar cheann de na saothair is tábhachtaí a scríobh Karl Marx

An brat dearg
Leagan Gaeilge eile d’amhrán sóisialach Jim Connell

The rising tide of discontent
Articles by the great English socialist Sylvia Pankhurst, never published since appearing in a Dublin labour paper in 1919

The Hidden Connolly
James Connolly discusses left-wing election candidates and British reverses in the Boer war, in articles never published since his death

Correspondence
Kevin Higgins continues the discussion on art in the recession