Red Banner issue 42 out now

national | anti-capitalism | other press Thursday January 13, 2011 17:27 by Red Banner red_banner at yahoo dot com PO Box 6587, Dublin 6

Issue 42 of Red Banner: a magazine of socialist ideas
out now in bookshops and the address above, €2 / £1.50

Sylvia Pankhurst: Communism and universal fraternity
Maeve Connaughton looks at the life of a remarkable and irrepressible revolutionary fifty years after her death

SOCIALIST CLASSICS John Reed, Ten Days That Shook the World
A celebrated eyewitness account of Russia’s revolution in 1917 discussed by Joe Conroy

Confessions of a sub-prime mortgage broker
Benson W Maxwell shares his own experiences of how US financial corporations exploit the poor

Gaeilge Uí Chonghaile
Cíorann Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh an fhianaise faoin méid Gaeilge a bhí ag Séamas Ó Conghaile

The Hidden Connolly
James Connolly exposes fake Labour politicians and war propaganda in articles never published since his execution

Poetry
Poems by Kevin Higgins and Philip Loyd

Correspondence
Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh takes issue on art and the economy