Red Banner magazine: goes quarterly; enters tenth year; issue 26 published.

national | anti-capitalism | other press Wednesday November 22, 2006 22:21 by D_D red_banner at yahoo dot com RED BANNER, PO Box 6587, Dublin, 6.

With this issue (No. 26, November 2006), which has been published recently, Red Banner enters its tenth year. The next issue will appear as normal in March, but from then on Red Banner will be a quarterly magazine, appearing every three (instead of four) months.

The new Red Banner will be smaller in size, forty pages in all, with the price reduced to €2 in the South and £1.50 in the North.

Issue 26 contains:

'Lebanon: Israel’s latest war'
Roland Rance uncovers the background to the onslaught on Lebanon, showing up Israel’s weakness rather than its strength;

'Socialist classics: VI Lenin, What Is To Be Done?'
Des Derwin takes a look at one of the most controversial of socialist polemics;

'Easter 1916: A left-wing rising?'
Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh marks the anniversary of the Easter Rising by questioning some of the political assumptions made about it;

'Claonadh stairiúil an carntha chaipitligh'
An chéad aistriúchán Gaeilge ar bhuaicphointe An Caipiteal, mórshaothar Karl Marx;

'We will fight on: Racism and the Afghan hunger strike'
Rosanna Flynn tells the story of this year’s protest by asylum seekers against deportation;

'Freud and the liberation of personality'
150 years after Freud’s birth, Paul Gadsby asks what aspects of his work can be of use in the struggle for a better life;

'The Hidden Connolly'
In an article unavailable since his execution, James Connolly calls for less philosophising and more fighting;

'Inspiring and saddening'
Mary Muldowney reviews Ken Loach’s film of the fight for independence The Wind that Shakes the Barley;

'Poems of Hitler and his war'
Fifty years after his death, we present the first English translation of some classic political poetry by Bertolt Brecht;

Correspondence
Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh continues the Frank Ryan debate agus pléann Art de Craig 1916, Ó Conghaile agus an Ghaeilge.

Red Banner can be purchased (Issue 26, €3/£2) at Books Upstairs and Connolly Books in Dublin, and Charlie Byrnes in Galway, or from Red Banner, PO Box 6587, Dublin 6, or red_banner@yahoo.com Subscriptions for four issues: €10/£7. Most back issues available.