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Contemporary Ireland
Colm Breathnach. Refusing to yield: The fight against the bin tax. RB 18, 4-10.
Maeve Connaughton. Northern exposure. RB 4, 4-9.
The long Good Friday. RB 32, 2-7.
What’s left of republicanism? RB 38, 2-9.
Colm de Faoite. Ní hé George Redmond an t‑aon bhailitheoir cíosa! RB 11, 40-45.
Buaileann Bertie bóthar. RB 32, 18-23.
Orla Drohan. Ryanair: The plane truth. RB 20, 23-8.
Going… going… gone? RB 22, 24-32.
Gil Hyle. Hardly a myth shattered. RB 11, 59-63.
Tommy McKearney. The relevance of republicanism. RB 8, 23-8.
John Meehan. Hard truths after the Good Friday Agreement. RB 3, 10-16.
Truth: First casualty of the peace process. RB 15, 54-6.
Eve Morrison. Drugs: Legalise or criminalise? RB 2, 11-15.
Miriam Murphy. Unhealthy profits: Globalisation and health care in Ireland. RB 19, 4-9.
Marie Ní Chonchubhair. Sláinte na gcomhlachtaí, easláinte an phobail. RB 28, 18-23.
Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. Socialism beyond the Pale. RB 4, 56-63.
The relevance of socialism. RB 9, 35-8.
Lisbon: Between two referendums. RB 33, 2-6.
Ed Walsh. Alternative Ulster. RB 35, 2-7.
Economy
Maeve Connaughton. Economical with the truth. RB 36, 2-8.
A false economy. RB 39, 2-7.
Kieran Crilly. Prosperity such as they speak of. RB 3, 47-50.
Tomás Mac Síomóin. Future Shock agus fabhalscéalta eile. RB 2, 39-44.
Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. Marx agus roinnt an bhodaigh. RB 5, 32-6.
Capital gains. RB 28, 23-8.
socialist classics Karl Marx, Towards a Critique of Political Economy. RB 37, 8-13.
Antóin Ó Muircheartaigh. Bosses, workers and the Euro. RB 2, 16-25.
Environment
Barry Finnegan. Corporate biological colonialism: The fight against GMOs. RB 25, 10-16.
Tomás Mac Síomóin. The gene is out of the bottle: The menace of genetic engineering. RB 7, 38-45.
Éigeandáil an ola: Sóisialachas nó aois na gcloch. RB 25, 17-23.
Athrú na haeráide: Tuige ar theip ar Chópanhágan? RB 39, 16-23.
Paul O’Connell. Socialism or barbarism: Can the world afford capitalism any longer? RB 25, 3-9.
International
Ede Ahmed. Nigeria’s police: the horrifying truth. RB 10, 18-21.
Allan Armstrong. The need for internationalism from below. RB 33, 22-7.
Twenty years after the poll tax. RB 40, 2-7.
Colm Breathnach. Class, colonialism and economy in Palestine. RB 16, 36-43.
Palestine: Two elections and a funeral. RB 25, 31-6.
Diarmuid Breatnach. Why can’t they see the Basques? RB 35, 15-18.
Harry Browne. Stupid brown men. RB 15, 7-11.
Tomorrow belongs to him? The US left and Bush’s second term. RB 21, 56-63.
Rosa M Cañadell. The Brazilian crisis and the land struggle. RB 27, 14-19.
John Chalcraft. The Iranian revolution after 25 years: Between nativism and westoxification. RB 19, 41-6.
Colm de Faoite. Éilíonn céasadh Gaza fóirithint. RB 35, 18-24.
Emmett Farrell. Sand in the eyes of working people: The White Paper on foreign policy. RB 6, 4-20.
Mugabe: The toughest rooster? RB 8, 35-8.
Daniel Finn. Iraq and the left. RB 22, 9-18.
Venezuela at a turning point. RB 24, 3-14.
Daniel Singer and the class struggles in France. RB 37, 21-6.
Chris Ford. Ukraine: The unfinished revolution. RB 22, 39-46.
Joe García. From New Orleans to Dublin: Neo-liberal chickens come home to roost. RB 23, 3-10.
Ed George. Through the smoke of Atocha: A reflection on the Spanish elections. RB 19, 22-31.
Spain’s Basque fault-line. RB 23, 20-8.
Kevin Higgins. Street ballet of the deaf and dumb: Everyday life in the GDR. RB 23, 60-3.
John McAnulty. The lessons of Kosovo. RB 5, 37-42.
Tomás Mac Síomóin. Bealach Blair: 1848 faoi chulaith 2000. RB 6, 28-33.
Berlusconi: Buncheacht nó dhó. RB 10, 39-41.
Deich mbliain ar aghaidh: Céard a chriog Aontacht na Sóivéide? RB 12, 30-8.
An Bunreacht Eorpach: Mactíre i gcraiceann sóisialta. RB 21, 29-38.
Schröder, Merkel agus meath an ghaimbíneachais. RB 23, 29-34.
Basque peace process collapse: What went wrong? RB 29, 13-19.
Adnan Mohammedi. Kurdistan: A people in revolt. RB 31, 2-6.
Dave Moore. “Today we march, tomorrow we vote”: Latinos, the immigrant rights struggle and the US election. RB 34, 2-8.
Jonathan Morrison. Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s last stand? RB 7, 26-31.
D R O’Connor Lysaght. Talking about partition. RB 13, 55-60.
Pól Ó Grádaigh. Ceist na Palaistíne: Súil siar, súil romhainn. RB 14, 30-7.
Gearóid Ó Loingsigh. Pinning down Pinochet. RB 8, 56-9.
Colombia: An overview. RB 9, 25-31.
Colombia: The dovetailing of strategies. RB 18, 23-8.
Tara O’Sullivan. Palestine: One state or two? RB 30, 27-30.
South Africa: A revolution betrayed. RB 36, 13-16.
Roland Rance. Lebanon: Israel’s latest war. RB 26, 5-11.
John Ryan. Lessons of the Nice Treaty. RB 11, 46-50.
John Throne. Full Spectrum Domination: The offensive of US capitalism. RB 12, 4-10.
Chinese capitalism on the rise? RB 18, 43-7.
Ed Walsh. Iranian politics and the US threat. RB 28, 2-8.
Warschawski, Michel. Israel, Palestine and the middle east: Reversing recolonisation. RB 29, 2-7.
Brendan Young. Divisive, reactionary and anti-working class: EU enlargement strategy. RB 14, 4-11.
Privatisation: The global agenda. RB 17, 4-11.
The EU Constitution: The consolidation of neo-liberalism and the militarisation of the EU. RB 21, 39-48.
Irish history and the left
Des Bonass. The Matt Merrigan I knew. RB 9, 52-62.
Ireland and the miners’ strike. RB 22, 54-61.
An Chomhdháil Phoblachtach. Forlámhas lucht oibre. RB 37, 14-18.
Maeve Connaughton. Nervous dispositions and vestigial knowledge: The 1970 arms crisis. RB 12, 43-8.
Joe Conroy. O’Donnell abú? RB 14, 38-43.
Crimal. Fáilte roimh an gConghaileach. RB 40, 23-6.
John Cunningham. Full life, flawed biography. RB 27, 23-6.
Colm de Faoite. Miotais, bundúin agus ’98. RB 3, 31-5.
Des Derwin. The taming of Jim Larkin. RB 2, 5-10.
Trouble at t’mill: The Clondalkin sit-in 1982-83. RB 4, 39-51; RB 5, 51-63.
Kevin Doyle. A revolutionary misfit: Jack White. RB 24, 42-5.
Brian Hanley. The myth of Michael Collins. RB 1, 59-62.
Fianna Fáil and the IRA: Lessons from the 1930s. RB 2, 45-50.
Kevin Higgins. Too obvious for his own good. RB 24, 34-6.
Noel McDermott. Jim Larkin: A man on a mission. RB 20, 29-32.
History lessons. RB 27, 33-6.
When was Labour? RB 30, 35-9.
The one that got away: Labour and the 1918 election. RB 34, 12-17.
SIPTU: The view from the bridge. RB 40, 31-40.
Tommy McKearney. Dilemmas of the IRA. RB 15, 50-3.
Matthews, Ann. Citizen Army women in the GPO in 1916. RB 28, 13-17.
Rebel women in prison in 1916. RB 29, 23-7.
Mary Muldowney. The crozier and the pike: The Catholic Church and 1798. RB 3, 17-30.
A life less radical than altruistic. RB 13, 42-6.
Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. Dillon beag. RB 7, 32-7.
The party of the first part. RB 23, 11-14.
Easter 1916: A left-wing rising? RB 26, 22-30.
Labour in Irish History i nGaeilge? RB 34, 17-22.
Getting with the programme: Labour, the Dáil and the Democratic Programme of 1919. RB 35, 24-35.
Cearta Sibhialta na Gaeltachta: Gluaiseacht ar chlé. RB 36, 17-24.
Comhdháil Phoblachtach na Gaeilge. RB 38, 24-8.
socialist classics James Connolly, Labour in Irish History. RB 40, 7-16.
Éamon Ó Ciosáin. Léargas leathan ar chlé. RB 31, 17-21.
D R O’Connor Lysaght. Matt Merrigan: A political assessment. RB 8, 11-15.
The lockout in close-up. RB 11, 51-5.
In defence of Larkin: What would you have done? RB 15, 20-31.
Peadar Ó Maicín. Caithfidh cumannacht a bheith ar bun. RB 30, 22-7.
Michael O’Reilly. Matt Merrigan: A marvellous legacy. RB 8, 4-10.
Pádraig Ó Snodaigh. Saothar, an POOA, an ILDA agus eile. RB 9, 32-4.
An ATGWU: As mo thaithí, tuigim do Mick O’Reilly. RB 13, 32-4.
Ag oibriú an oird ag ceárta lasrach na beatha: The Celtic Times. RB 20, 33-4.
Ógánaigh is Óglaigh. RB 37, 19-21.
Tom Ryan. The importance of being Frank. RB 23, 50-5.
Literature and the media
Peter Branson. Poetry. RB 36, 36-8.
Bertolt Brecht. Poems of Hitler and his war. RB 26, 58-60.
Eamon Butterfield. Oscar Wilde and socialism. RB 8, 60-3.
Michelle Charlton. The socialist who never was. RB 30, 40.
Mining soul deep: A lesson in history. RB 37, 35-40; RB 38, 32-40.
Maeve Connaughton. Orwell and the working class. RB 7, 52-63.
Joe Conroy. The Plough and the Stars: Sixteen characters in search of analysis. RB 19, 58-61.
Poetry of our own. RB 32, 33-8.
Des Derwin. The civil jaw in France. RB 14, 56-61.
Mick Doyle. Working class fool: Workers in the arts and media. RB 2, 59-63.
Henry Gibson. socialist classics Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. RB 30, 10-16.
Getting poetry red. RB 31, 36-8.
socialist classics William Morris, Art and Socialism. RB 34, 8-11.
Kevin Higgins. Borges, Balzac and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. RB 12, 59-63.
A Brief History Of Those Who Made Their Point Politely And Then Went Home. RB 14, 63.
Palaces of memory, rooms full of light. RB 13, 61-3.
George Orwell: Anything but a saint. RB 17, 41-9.
Twenty years ago today. RB 19, 53-7.
Poetry to save lives. RB 33, 34-40.
Poetry, politics and the left. RB 38, 15-23.
Mike Jenkins. The Man Who Lost His Voice. RB 15, 63.
Legacies of Pinochet. RB 27, 36-7.
The tears of Pablo Neruda. RB 32, 38-9.
Fred Johnston. On being used as a prop for an Israeli gun. RB 14, 62-3.
King, Gary. Striking back. RB 24, 59.
Catherine Lyons. Marxism and cellulite: A consumer’s guide to marketing. RB 6, 34-40.
Don’t mention the war: The rehabilitation of a Nazi film-maker. RB 18, 56-61.
Free to air? Broadcasting, democracy and the market. RB 20, 38-46.
Tomás Mac Síomóin. Knifeman. RB 24, 52-8.
Mary Muldowney. Inspiring and saddening. RB 26, 52-7.
Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. Embracing the butcher? Brecht and Stalinism. RB 6, 51-61.
Pádraic Ó Conaire: Sóisialaí réabhlóideach. RB 18, 29-34.
Máirtín Ó Cadhain agus sóisialachas na seascaidí. RB 22, 33-8.
Michael O’Flanagan. Can the media handle the truth? RB 10, 57-61.
Antóin Ó Muircheartaigh. Oderint dum metuant. RB 22, 62-3.
Ed Walsh. Showing the other America. RB 32, 13-17.
Racism
Rosa Cañadell. Ciníochas agus an ghéarchéim eacnamaíoch: Cá bhfuil an eite chlé? RB 33, 18-22.
Maeve Connaughton. Sitting on the hot stove: Reflections on Malcolm X. RB 22, 3-8.
Rosanna Flynn. Racism: A class issue. RB 1, 19-21.
We will fight on: Racism and the Afghan hunger strike. RB 26, 35-7.
Maureen Gallagher. Travellers in Ireland. RB 10, 22-4.
Pat Guerin. Immigration policy, racism and national identity. RB 10, 9-17.
Kevin Higgins. Unmasking the real enemy. RB 10, 4-8.
Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. The left and the racist referendum. RB 20, 4-12.
Gama, racism and class struggle. RB 27, 2-7.
Socialism and anti-capitalism
Maeve Connaughton. United we stand? RB 9, 21-4.
Upping the anti. RB 18, 11-14.
Joe Conroy. Back to basics. RB 1, 5-8.
Joe Craig. What sort of socialist politics? RB 4, 10-15.
Colm de Faoite. Domhandú, dúshaothrú agus dídhaonnú. RB 24, 26-33.
Des Derwin. Goats and sheep, pinkeens and tadpoles: Drawing the line with sectarianism. RB 28, 34-40.
Andrew Flood. Imperialism, globalisation and the rule of the few. RB 10, 33-8.
Local or global trade? A libertarian socialist view. RB 12, 11-14.
Kevin Higgins. Whatever happened to the end of history? RB 11, 12-15.
Tomás Mac Síomóin. Wresting the possible from the impossible: Lessons from Barcelona. RB 13, 35-41.
Books that strip the Emperor. RB 17, 28-30.
John Meehan. Alliances on the far left. RB 7, 23-5.
Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. Another movement is possible! RB 11, 7-11.
Drawing the line. RB 25, 37-43.
Drawing lines, and throwing shapes. RB 29, 27-32.
The road to God knows where. RB 39, 24-31.
Pól Ó Grádaigh. An anti-imperialist manifesto. RB 20, 54-8.
John Ryan. European Social Forum: Report from Firenze 2002. RB 15, 4-6.
Co-ordinating militant action. RB 19, 37-40.
Brian Trench. Imagining socialism. RB 9, 39-44.
Socialist theory and history
Jon Anderson. James P Cannon and the revolutionary party. RB 12, 23-9.
Colm Breathnach. Theory and class. RB 23, 35-42.
socialist classics Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. RB 27, 7-14.
Maeve Connaughton. revolutionary lives Rosa Luxemburg. RB 1, 22-40.
revolutionary lives John Maclean. RB 5, 23-31.
revolutionary lives Ernesto Che Guevara. RB 15, 12-19.
socialist classics Antonio Gramsci, ‘Some Aspects of the Southern Question’. RB 20, 19-22.
socialist classics György Lukács, History and Class Consciousness. RB 23, 15-19.
SOCIALIST CLASSICS Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread. RB 29, 7-12.
Jim Connell. An Brat Dearg. RB 32, 24-5.
An Bhratach Dhearg. RB 36, 25.
James Connolly. The Hidden Connolly. RB 1, 52-8; RB 2, 51-8; RB 3, 51-5; RB 4, 52-5; RB 5, 43-50; RB 6, 41-50; RB 7, 46-51; RB 8, 50-5; RB 9, 45-51; RB 10, 54-6; RB 11, 56-8; RB 12, 49-54; RB 13, 47-54; RB 14, 50-5; RB 15, 46-9; RB 16, 56-9; RB 17, 50-4; RB 18, 48-55; RB 19, 47-52; RB 20, 47-53; RB 21, 49-55; RB 22, 47-53; RB 23, 43-9; RB 24, 46-51; RB 25, 44-54; RB 26, 44-51; RB 27, 26-33; RB 28, 28-34; RB 29, 32-4; RB 30, 31-5; RB 31, 29-36; RB 32, 26-32; RB 33, 27-34; RB 34, 22-38; RB 35, 35-40; RB 36, 31-5; RB 37, 26-34; RB 38, 28-32; RB 39, 31-7; RB 40, 27-31.
Joe Conroy. revolutionary lives Friedrich Engels. RB 3, 36-46; RB 4, 16-26.
revolutionary lives Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. RB 6, 21-7; RB 7, 15-22.
revolutionary lives Victor Serge. RB 9, 14-20.
revolutionary lives Alexandra Kollontai. RB 11, 16-25.
A forceful argument. RB 12, 55-8.
revolutionary lives Leon Trotsky. RB 16, 28-35; RB 17, 22-7; RB 18, 15-22.
Come back Ilyich, all is forgiven. RB 20, 59-63.
socialist classics Leon Trotsky, Literature and Revolution. RB 22, 19-23.
Helen Macfarlane: Lost in translation. RB 23, 56-9.
socialist classics Alexandra Kollontai, The Workers’ Opposition. RB 25, 24-30.
socialist classics Che Guevara, ‘Socialism and the New Man in Cuba’. RB 28, 8-13.
socialist classics Raya Dunayevskaya, Marxism and Freedom. RB 31, 7-11.
socialist classics Karl Marx, Marginal Notes on the Programme of the German Workers’ Party. RB 33, 6-12.
socialist classics N Lenin, ‘Left-Wing’ Communism: An infantile disorder. RB 35, 8-15.
socialist classics C L R James, World Revolution 1917-1936. RB 36, 8-12.
State capitalism rides again! RB 37, 2-7.
socialist classics Rosa Luxemburg, Mass Strike, Party and Unions. RB 38, 10-15.
socialist classics Erich Fromm, The Sane Society. RB 39, 8-15.
Engels with dirty faces. RB 40, 16-22.
Des Derwin. socialist classics V I Lenin, What Is To Be Done? RB 26, 12-21.
File na Fírinne. An cogadh: Cé acu taobh do bhuaigh? RB 29, 19-23.
Chris Ford. The Ukrainian revolution 1917-21: Russia’s Ireland and the fate of socialism in Europe. RB 31, 21-9.
Brian Hanley. The Communists, the Nazis and the German working class. RB 4, 35-8.
Kevin Higgins. Everything the Party did, said and thought. RB 15, 42-5.
Life. An saol nua. RB 27, 19-23.
Rosa Luxemburg. Through fire and water for the cause of socialism. RB 9, 4-13.
Patricia McManus. Any Marx is better than no Marx? RB 8, 39-49.
Tomás Mac Síomóin. An eolaíocht é an marxachas? RB 8, 29-34.
An náisiúnachas: Ball laige an tsóisialachais? RB 15, 32-7; RB 16, 44-50.
Norberto Bobbio agus baill bhána ar mhapa an mharxachais. RB 19, 32-6.
Karl Marx. Claonadh stairiúil an charntha chaipitligh. RB 26, 31-4.
Paul Moloney. Taking hold of the fight. RB 25, 55-60.
Mary Muldowney. Oscar Wilde: Realising utopias. RB 24, 37-41.
Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. revolutionary lives Antonio Gramsci. RB 2, 29-38.
The Communist Manifesto: Birthday honours. RB 3, 56-63.
revolutionary lives William Morris. RB 8, 16-22.
revolutionary lives György Lukács. RB 10, 25-32.
revolutionary lives Karl Marx. RB 12, 15-22; RB 13, 12-16; RB 14, 18-29.
A hundred years on: The two souls of Bolshevism. RB 15, 38-41.
socialist classics Rosa Luxemburg, On the Russian Revolution. RB 19, 14-21.
socialist classics Victor Serge, Memoirs of a Revolutionary. RB 21, 24-8.
socialist classics Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. RB 24, 15-20.
The Russian revolution: Where did it go wrong? RB 30, 3-10.
socialist classics James Connolly, Labour Nationality and Religion. RB 32, 8-13.
Pádraic Ó Conaire. An caipitealacht a bhriseadh. RB 4, 27-34.
Liam Ó Ruairc. The politics of despair: The critical theory of the Frankfurt School. RB 14, 44-9.
Eugène Edme Pottier. An tIdirnáisiúntán. RB 20, 35-7.
Trade unionism and social partnership
Eddie Conlon. Fighting partnership: The left and the unions. RB 13, 17-31.
Maeve Connaughton. Dissolving the partnership. RB 14, 12-17.
Insignificance? Socialists and trade union struggles. RB 16, 60-2.
Joe Craig. The politics of social partnership. RB 15, 57-62.
Economism and the politics of social partnership. RB 17, 55-8.
Des Derwin. The PPF: A done deal soon undone? RB 7, 4-14.
ILDA, Aldi, taxi and ASTI: New rebels, new consensus. RB 11, 26-39.
Social partnership: The matrix exploded. RB 17, 12-21.
Are the trade unions Luas-ing the plot? RB 19, 10-13.
Don’t do as I pay: Social partnership and double standards. RB 24, 21-7.
Kevin Keating. Fighting social partnership. RB 10, 42-53.
Ellen McCann. Challenged consensus. RB 5, 5-16.
Alan MacSimóin. Socialists in the unions. RB 5, 17-22.
Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. Ó cheardchumannachas go sóisialachas. RB 1, 41-4.
Pádraic Ó Conaire. The future of trade unionism. RB 16, 51-5.
Michael O’Reilly. “Socialist trade unionism, not trade union socialism”. RB 3, 4-9.
“Organise or die”. RB 21, 3-23.
Tom Ryan. Trade unionism derailed. RB 20, 13-18.
War
Josep Bonet. Popular protest: The Spanish litmus test. RB 16, 18-21.
Maeve Connaughton. Tears of sadness, and opportunities. RB 11, 4-6.
Pádraic Finn. England after the Iraq war. RB 16, 11-14.
Kevin Higgins. Mentioning the war. RB 16, 22-7.
Paul Moloney. Reflections on the anti-war movement. RB 16, 4-7.
Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh. What did you do in the war? RB 16, 7-10.
Darren Williams. Welsh politics and the war. RB 16, 14-17.
Women's liberation
Ivana Bacik, Rosanna Flynn, Brendan Young. “We have to move on”: A roundtable discussion on abortion. RB 13, 4-11.
James Caspell. The Russian revolution and the temporary advance of Soviet feminism. RB 31, 11-16.
Rosanna Flynn. It hasn’t gone away, you know: The fight for abortion rights. RB 2, 26-8.
Maureen Gallagher. Women’s oppression and the fight to end it. RB 12, 39-42.
Mary Muldowney. Remembering the Irish Women’s Franchise League. RB 33, 12-18.
