Red Banner issue 47 out now

Issue 47 of Red Banner is available now. €2 / £1.50 from bookshops or the address above.

The historiography of the 1916 rebellion: Romanticism versus reality
Ann Matthews argues that traditional interpretations of the Easter rising leave out the experience of the working class

SOCIALIST CLASSICS Leon Trotsky, The History of the Russian Revolution to Brest-Litovsk
Joe Conroy on an early attempt to relate and spread the revolution of 1917

Smaointe Karl Marx agus Éire an lae inniu
Pléann Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh bunsmaointe Marx agus an léargas a chaitheann siad ar chúrsaí na tíre faoi láthair

The Hidden Connolly
James Connolly, in articles unpublished since his execution, exposes the Home Rulers, municipal corruption, and international recession

Correspondence
Maeve Connaughton responds to criticism of a recent review