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1997

Issue 1

Joe Conroy. Back to basics.

Mick Doyle. Class, creed and consent.

Rosanna Flynn. Racism: A class issue.

Maeve Connaughton. revolutionary lives Rosa Luxemburg.

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. Ó cheardchumannachas go sóisialachas.

Eve Morrison. Forgotten Voices: Women and the Land War.

The Hidden Connolly

Brian Hanley. The myth of Michael Collins.

1998

Issue 2

Des Derwin. The taming of Jim Larkin.

Eve Morrison. Drugs: Legalise or criminalise?

Antóin Ó Muircheartaigh. Bosses, workers and the Euro.

Rosanna Flynn. It hasn’t gone away, you know: The fight for abortion rights.

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. revolutionary lives Antonio Gramsci.

Tomás Mac Síomóin. Future Shock agus fabhalscéalta eile.

Brian Hanley. Fianna Fáil and the IRA: Lessons from the 1930s.

The Hidden Connolly

Mick Doyle. Working class fool: Workers in the arts and media.

 

Issue 3

Michael O’Reilly interviewed by Rosanna Flynn. “Socialist trade unionism, not trade union socialism”

John Meehan. Hard truths after the Good Friday Agreement.

Mary Muldowney. The crozier and the pike: the Catholic Church hierarchy and 1798.

Colm de Faoite. Miotais, bundúin agus ’98.

Joe Conroy. revolutionary lives Friedrich Engels (part one).

Kieran Crilly. Prosperity such as they speak of.

The Hidden Connolly

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. The Communist Manifesto: birthday honours.

1999

Issue 4

Maeve Connaughton. Northern exposure.

Joe Craig. What sort of socialist politics?

Joe Conroy. revolutionary lives Friedrich Engels (part two).

Pádraic Ó Conaire. An caipitealacht a bhriseadh.

Brian Hanley. The Communists, the Nazis, and the German working class.

Des Derwin. Trouble at t’mill: the Clondalkin sit-in 1982-83 (part one).

The Hidden Connolly

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. Socialism beyond the Pale.

 

Issue 5

Ellen McCann. Challenged consensus.

Alan MacSimóin. Socialists in the unions.

Maeve Connaughton. revolutionary lives John Maclean.

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. Marx agus roinnt an bhodaigh.

John McAnulty. The lessons of Kosovo.

The Hidden Connolly  

Des Derwin. Trouble at t’mill: The Clondalkin sit-ins 1982-83 (part two).

2000

Issue 6

Emmett Farrell. Sand in the eyes of working people: The White Paper on foreign policy.

Joe Conroy. revolutionary lives Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (part one).

Tomás Mac Síomóin. Bealach Blair: 1848 faoi chulaith 2000.

Catherine Lyons. Marxism and cellulite: A consumer’s guide to marketing.

The Hidden Connolly

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. Embracing the butcher? Brecht and Stalinism.

 

Issue 7

Des Derwin. The PPF: A done deal soon undone?

Joe Conroy. revolutionary lives Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (part two).

John Meehan. Alliances on the far left.

Jonathan Morrison. Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s last stand?

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. Dillon beag.

Tomás Mac Síomóin. The gene is out of the bottle: The menace of genetic engineering.

The Hidden Connolly

Maeve Connaughton. Orwell and the working class.

 

Issue 8

Michael O’Reilly. Matt Merrigan: A marvellous legacy.

D R O’Connor Lysaght. Matt Merrigan: A political assessment.

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. revolutionary lives William Morris.

Tommy McKearney. The relevance of republicanism.

Tomás Mac Síomóin. An eolaíocht é an marxachas?

Emmett Farrell. Mugabe: The toughest rooster?

Patricia McManus. Any Marx is better than no Marx?

The Hidden Connolly

Gearóid Ó Loingsigh. Pinning down Pinochet.

Eamon Butterfield. Oscar Wilde and socialism.

2001

Issue 9

Rosa Luxemburg. Through fire and water for the cause of socialism.

Joe Conroy. revolutionary lives Victor Serge.

Maeve Connaughton. United we stand?

Gearóid Ó Loingsigh. Columbia: An overview.

Pádraig Ó Snodaigh. Saothar, an POOA, an ILDA agus eile.

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. The relevance of socialism.

Brian Trench. Imagining socialism.

The Hidden Connolly

Des Bonass. The Matt Merrigan I knew.

 

Issue 10

Kevin Higgins. Unmasking the real enemy.

Pat Guerin. Immigration policy, racism and national identity.

Ede Ahmed. Nigeria’s police: The horrifying truth.

Maureen Gallagher. Travellers in Ireland.

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. revolutionary lives György Lukács.

Andrew Flood. Imperialism, globalisation and the rule of the few.

Tomás Mac Síomóin. Berlusconi: Buncheacht nó dhó.

Kevin Keating. Fighting social partnership.

The Hidden Connolly

Michael O’Flanagan. Can the media handle the truth?

 

Issue 11

Maeve Connaughton. Tears of sadness, and opportunities.

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. Another movement is possible!

Kevin Higgins. Whatever happened to the end of history?

Joe Conroy. revolutionary lives Alexandra Kollontai.

Des Derwin. ILDA, Aldi, taxi and ASTI: New rebels, new consensus.

Colm de Faoite. Ní hé George Redmond an t‑aon bhailitheoir cíosa!

John Ryan. Lessons of the Nice Treaty.

D R O’Connor Lysaght. The lockout in close-up.

The Hidden Connolly

Gil Hyle. Hardly a myth shattered.

2002

Issue 12

John Throne. Full Spectrum Domination: The offensive of US capitalism.

Andrew Flood. Local or global trade? A libertarian socialist view.

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. revolutionary lives Karl Marx (part one).

Jon Anderson. James P Cannon and the revolutionary party.

Tomás Mac Síomóin. Deich mbliain ar aghaidh: Céard a chriog Aontacht na Sóivéide?

Maureen Gallagher. Women’s oppression and the fight to end it.

Maeve Connaughton. Nervous dispositions and vestigial knowledge: The 1970 arms crisis.

The Hidden Connolly

Joe Conroy. A forceful argument.

Kevin Higgins. Borges, Balzac and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.

 

Issue 13

Ivana Bacik, Rosanna Flynn, Brendan Young. “We have to move on”: A roundtable discussion on abortion.

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. revolutionary lives Karl Marx (part two).

Eddie Conlon. Fighting partnership: The left and the unions.

Pádraig Ó Snodaigh. An ATGWU: As mo thaithí, tuigim do Mick O’Reilly.

Tomás Mac Síomóin. Wresting the possible from the impossible: Lessons from Barcelona.

Mary Muldowney. A life less radical than altruistic.

The Hidden Connolly

D R O’Connor Lysaght. Talking about partition.

Kevin Higgins. Palaces of memory, rooms full of light.

 

Issue 14

Brendan Young. Divisive, reactionary and anti-working class: EU enlargement strategy.

Maeve Connaughton. Dissolving the partnership.

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. revolutionary lives Karl Marx (part three).

Pól Ó Grádaigh. Ceist na Palaistíne: Súil siar, súil romhainn.

Joe Conroy. O’Donnell abú?

Liam Ó Ruairc. The politics of despair: The critical theory of the Frankfurt School.

The Hidden Connolly

Des Derwin. The civil jaw in France.

Fred Johnston. On being used as a prop for an Israeli gun.

Kevin Higgins. A Brief History of Those Who Politely Made Their Point And Then Went Home.

2003

Issue 15

John Ryan. European Social Forum: Report from Firenze.

Harry Browne. Stupid brown men.

Maeve Connaughton. revolutionary lives Ernesto Che Guevara.

D R O’Connor Lysaght. In defence of Larkin: What would you have done?

Tomás Mac Síomóin. An náisiúnachas: Ball laige an tsóisialachais? (cuid a haon)

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. A hundred years on: The two souls of Bolshevism.

Kevin Higgins. Everything the Party did, said and thought.

The Hidden Connolly

Tommy McKearney. Dilemmas of the IRA.

John Meehan. Truth: First casualty of the peace process.

Joe Craig. The politics of social partnership.

Mike Jenkins. The Man Who Lost his Voice.

 

Issue 16

THE WAR AGAINST THE WAR

Paul Moloney. Reflections on the anti-war movement.

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. What did you do in the war?

Pádraic Finn. England after the Iraq war.

Darren Williams. Welsh politics and the war.

Josep Bonet. Popular protest: The Spanish litmus test.

Kevin Higgins. Mentioning the war.

Joe Conroy. revolutionary lives Leon Trotsky (part one: 1879-1921).

Colm Breathnach. Class, colonialism and economy in Palestine.

Tomás Mac Síomóin. An náisiúnachas: Ball laige an tsóisialachais? (cuid a dó)

Pádraic Ó Conaire. The future of trade unionism.

The Hidden Connolly

Maeve Connaughton. Insignificance? Socialists and trade union struggles.

 

Issue 17

Brendan Young. Privatisation: The global agenda.

Des Derwin. Social partnership: The matrix exploded.

Joe Conroy. revolutionary lives Leon Trotsky (part two: 1921-29).

Tomás Mac Síomóin. Books that strip the Emperor.

Pádraig Ó Snodaigh. Faillí Luimní?

Emmett Farrell. Which side are you on? The commodification of sport.

Kevin Higgins. George Orwell: Anything but a saint.

The Hidden Connolly

Joe Craig. Economism and the politics of social partnership.

 

2004

Issue 18

Colm Breathnach. Refusing to yield: The fight against the bin tax

Maeve Connaughton. Upping the anti.

Joe Conroy. revolutionary lives Leon Trotsky (part three: 1929-40).

Gearóid Ó Loingsigh. Colombia: The dovetailing of strategies.

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. Pádraic Ó Conaire: sóisialaí réabhlóideach.

John Cunningham. Pádraic Ó Conaire’s socialism.

John Throne. Chinese capitalism on the rise?

The Hidden Connolly

Catherine Lyons. Don’t mention the war: The rehabilitation of a Nazi film-maker.

 

Issue 19

Miriam Murphy. Unhealthy profits: Globalisation and health care in Ireland.

Des Derwin. Are the trade unions Luas-ing the plot?

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. socialist classics Rosa Luxemburg, On the Russian Revolution.

Ed George. Through the smoke of Atocha: A reflection on the Spanish elections.

Tomás Mac Síomóin. Norberto Bobbio agus baill bhána ar an mapa marxach.

John Ryan. Co-ordinating militant action.

John Chalcraft. The Iranian revolution after 25 years: Between nativism and westoxification.

The Hidden Connolly

Kevin Higgins. Twenty years ago today.

Joe Conroy. The Plough and the Stars: Sixteen characters in search of analysis.

 

Issue 20

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. The left and the racist referendum.

Tom Ryan. Trade unionism derailed.

Maeve Connaughton. socialist classics Antonio Gramsci, ‘Some Aspects of the Southern Question’.

Orla Drohan. Ryanair: The plane truth.

Noel McDermott. Jim Larkin: A man on a mission.

Pádraig Ó Snodaigh. Ag oibriú an oird ag ceárta lasrach na beatha: The Celtic Times.

Eugène Edme Pottier. An tIdirnáisiúntán.

Catherine Lyons. Free to air? Broadcasting, democracy and the market.

The Hidden Connolly

Pól Ó Grádaigh. An anti-imperialist manifesto.

Joe Conroy. Come back Ilyich, all is forgiven.

2005

Issue 21

“Organise or die”: An interview with Mick O’Reilly

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. socialist classics Victor Serge, Memoirs of a Revolutionary

Tomás Mac Síomóin. An Bunreacht Eorpach: Mactíre i gcraiceann sóisialta.

Brendan Young. The EU Constitution: The consolidation of neo-liberalism and the militarisation of the EU.

The Hidden Connolly

Harry Browne. Tomorrow belongs to him? The US left and Bush’s second term.

 

Issue 22

Maeve Connaughton. Sitting on the hot stove: Reflections on Malcolm X.

Daniel Finn. Iraq and the left.

Joe Conroy. socialist classics Leon Trotsky, Literature and Revolution.

Orla Drohan. Going… going… gone?

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. Máirtín Ó Cadhain agus sóisialachas na seascaidí.

Chris Ford. Ukraine: The unfinished revolution.

The Hidden Connolly

Des Bonass. Ireland and the miners’ strike.

Antóin Ó Muircheartaigh. Oderint dum metuant.

 

Issue 23

Joe García. From New Orleans to Dublin: Neo-liberal chickens come home to roost.

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. The party of the first part.

Maeve Connaughton. socialist classics György Lukács, History and Class Consciousness.

Ed George. Spain’s Basque fault-line.

Tomás Mac Síomóin. Schröder, Merkel agus meath an ghaimbíneachais.

Colm Breathnach. Theory and class.

The Hidden Connolly

Tom Ryan. The importance of being Frank.

Joe Conroy. Helen Macfarlane: Lost in translation.

Kevin Higgins. Street ballet of the deaf and dumb: Everyday life in the GDR.

2006

Issue 24

Daniel Finn. Venezuela at a turning point.

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. socialist classics Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific.

Des Derwin. Don’t do as I pay: Social partnership and double standards.

Colm de Faoite. Domhandú, dúshaothrú agus dídhaonnú.

Kevin Higgins. Too obvious for his own good.

Mary Muldowney. Oscar Wilde: Realising utopias.

Kevin Doyle. A revolutionary misfit: Jack White.

The Hidden Connolly

Tomás Mac Síomóin. Knifeman.

Gary King. Striking back.

 

Issue 25

Paul O’Connell. Socialism or barbarism: Can the world afford capitalism any longer?

Barry Finnegan. Corporate biological colonialism: The fight against GMOs.

Tomás Mac Síomóin. Éigeandáil an ola: Sóisialachas nó aois na gcloch.

Joe Conroy. socialist classics Alexandra Kollontai, The Workers’ Opposition.

Colm Breathnach. Palestine: Two elections and a funeral.

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. Drawing the line.

The Hidden Connolly

Paul Moloney. Taking hold of the fight.

 

Issue 26

Roland Rance. Lebanon: Israel’s latest war.

Des Derwin. socialist classics V I Lenin, What Is To Be Done?

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. Easter 1916: A left-wing rising?

Karl Marx. Claonadh stairiúil an charntha chaipitligh.

Rosanna Flynn. We will fight on: Racism and the Afghan hunger strike.

Paul Gadsby. Freud and the liberation of personality.

The Hidden Connolly

Mary Muldowney. Inspiring and saddening.

Bertolt Brecht. Poems of Hitler and his war.

2007

Issue 27

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. Gama, racism and class struggle.

Colm Breathnach. socialist classics Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.

Rosa M Cañadell. The Brazilian crisis and the land struggle.

Life. An saol nua.

John Cunningham. Full life, flawed biography.

The Hidden Connolly

Noel McDermott. History lessons.

Mike Jenkins. Legacies of Pinochet.

 

Issue 28

Ed Walsh. Iranian politics and the US threat.

Joe Conroy. socialist classics Che Guevara, ‘Socialism and the New Man in Cuba’.

Ann Matthews. Citizen Army women in the GPO in 1916.

Máire Ní Chonchubhair. Sláinte na gcomhlachtaí, easláinte an phobail.

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. Capital gains.

The Hidden Connolly

Des Derwin. Goats and sheep, pinkeens and tadpoles: Drawing the line with sectarianism.

 

Issue 29

Michel Warschawski. Israel, Palestine and the middle east: Reversing recolonisation.

Maeve Connaughton. SOCIALIST CLASSICS Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread.

Tomás Mac Síomóin. Basque peace process collapse: What went wrong?

File na Fírinne. An cogadh: Cé acu taobh do bhuaigh?

Ann Matthews. Rebel women in prison in 1916.

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. Drawing lines, and throwing shapes.

The Hidden Connolly.

 

Issue 30

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. The Russian revolution: Where did it go wrong?

Henry Gibson. socialist classics Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.

Ed Walsh. Breaking with neo-liberalism.

Peadar Ó Maicín. Caithfidh cumannacht a bheith ar bun.

Tara O’Sullivan. Palestine: One state or two?

The Hidden Connolly.

Noel McDermott. When was Labour?

Michelle Charlton. The socialist who never was.

2008

Issue 31

Adnan Mohammedi. Kurdistan: A people in revolt.

Joe Conroy. socialist classics Raya Dunayevskaya, Marxism and Freedom.

James Caspell. The Russian revolution and the temporary advance of Soviet feminism.

Éamon Ó Ciosáin. Léargas leathan ar chlé.

Chris Ford. The Ukrainian revolution 1917-21: Russia’s Ireland and the fate of socialism in Europe.

The Hidden Connolly.

Henry Gibson. Getting poetry red.

 

Issue 32

Maeve Connaughton. The long Good Friday.

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. socialist classics James Connolly, Labour Nationality and Religion.

Ed Walsh. Showing the other America.

Colm de Faoite. Buaileann Bertie bóthar.

Jim Connell. An Brat Dearg.

The Hidden Connolly.

Joe Conroy. Poetry of our own.

Mike Jenkins. The tears of Pablo Neruda.

Issue 33

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. Lisbon: Between two referendums.

Joe Conroy. socialist classics Karl Marx, Marginal Notes on the Programme of the German Workers’ Party.

Mary Muldowney. Remembering the Irish Women’s Franchise League.

Rosa Cañadell. Ciníochas agus an ghéarchéim eacnamaíoch: Cá bhfuil an eite chlé?

Allan Armstrong. The need for internationalism from below.

The Hidden Connolly.

Kevin Higgins. Poetry to save lives.

 

Issue 34

Dave Moore. “Today we march, tomorrow we vote”: Latinos, the immigrant rights struggle and the US election.

Henry Gibson. socialist classics William Morris, Art and Socialism.

Noel McDermott. The one that got away: Labour and the 1918 election.

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. Labour in Irish History i nGaeilge?

The Hidden Connolly.

 

2009

Issue 35

Ed Walsh. Alternative Ulster.

Joe Conroy. socialist classics N Lenin, ‘Left-Wing’ Communism: An infantile disorder.

Diarmuid Breatnach. Why can’t they see the Basques?

Colm de Faoite. Éilíonn céasadh Gaza fóirithint.

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. Getting with the programme: Labour, the Dáil and the Democratic Programme of 1919.

The Hidden Connolly.

Issue 36

Maeve Connaughton. Economical with the truth.

Joe Conroy. socialist classics C L R James, World Revolution 1917-1936.

Tara O’Sullivan. South Africa: A revolution betrayed.

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. Cearta Sibhialta na Gaeltachta: Gluaiseacht ar chlé.

Jim Connell. An Bhratach Dhearg.

Mick O’Reilly. Roddy Connolly: From left to right.

The Hidden Connolly.

Peter Branson. Poetry.

 

Issue 37

Joe Conroy. State capitalism rides again!

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. socialist classics Karl Marx, Towards a Critique of Political Economy.

An Chomhdháil Phoblachtach. Forlámhas lucht oibre.

Pádraig Ó Snodaigh. Ógánaigh is Óglaigh.

Daniel Finn. Daniel Singer and the class struggles in France.

The Hidden Connolly.

Michelle Charlton. Mining soul deep: A lesson in history.

 

Issue 38

Maeve Connaughton. What’s left of republicanism?

Joe Conroy. socialist classics Rosa Luxemburg, Mass Strike, Party and Unions.

Kevin Higgins. Poetry, politics and the left.

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. Comhdháil Phoblachtach na Gaeilge.

The Hidden Connolly.

Michelle Charlton. Mining soul deep: A lesson in history.

2010

Issue 39

Maeve Connaughton. A false economy.

Joe Conroy. SOCIALIST CLASSICS Erich Fromm, The Sane Society.

Tomás Mac Síomóin. Athrú na haeráide: Tuige ar theip ar Chópanhágan?

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. The road to God knows where.

James Connolly. The Hidden Connolly.

 

Issue 40

Allan Armstrong. Twenty years after the poll tax.

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. socialist classics James Connolly, Labour in Irish History.

Joe Conroy. Engels with dirty faces.

Crimal. Fáilte roimh an gConghaileach.

James Connolly. The Hidden Connolly.

Noel McDermott. SIPTU: The view from the bridge.

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