Red Banner issue 60 out now

national | anti-capitalism | other press Monday June 22, 2015 13:18 by Red Banner red_banner at yahoo dot com PO Box 6587, Dublin 6

Issue 60 of
Red Banner: a magazine of socialist ideas
is out now
€2 / £1.50 from shops or the address above

Across the roar of guns
Maeve Connaughton reviews a new selection of voices raised against the horror of the first world war

SOCIALIST CLASSICS Aleksei Badayev, The Bolsheviks in the Tsarist Duma
Tara O’Sullivan asks what can be learned from the experiences of a socialist deputy in Russia’s pre-revolutionary parliament

How did Trotsky lose?
Seventy five years after Leon Trotsky’s assassination, Joe Conroy tackles the enigma of his defeat at the hands of Stalin

Ag baisteadh na réabhlóide: An Ghaeilge ar shóisialachas
Tugann Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh cuairt ar na friotail éagsúla a cuireadh ar an sóisialachas i nGaeilge in imeacht na mblianta

The Hidden Connolly
James Connolly comments on the politics of nationalism, labour and socialism in articles unpublished since his execution

The political contradictions of Yeats
A century and a half after W B Yeats was born, Kevin Higgins discusses the politics in the poetry