Red Banner issue 40 out now

national | anti-capitalism | other press Sunday June 06, 2010 13:47 by Red Banner red_banner at yahoo dot com PO Box 6587, Dublin 6

Issue 40 of Red Banner is out now, available for €2 / £1.50 in bookshops or from the address above.

Twenty years after the poll tax
Allan Armstrong, formerly chair of the Lothians Anti-Poll Tax Federation, draws lessons from the campaign that finished Thatcher

SOCIALIST CLASSICS James Connolly, Labour in Irish History
A critical celebration by Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh on the centenary of Irish socialism’s most important work

Engels with dirty faces
A new biography of the socialist pioneer Friedrich Engels is reviewed by Joe Conroy

Fáilte roimh an gConghaileach
Moladh Crimal ar mhórshaothair Shéamais Uí Chonghaile agus iad á bhfoilsiú céad bliain ó shin

The Hidden Connolly
James Connolly castigates the hypocritical trickery of nationalist politics, in articles unpublished since his execution

SIPTU: The view from the bridge
Noel McDermott examines an official history retailing a hundred years of Ireland’s biggest union