Amasonia experiences significant changes, especially from growing public pressure felt mostly by the institutions of public administration. Relationships with state and federal representatives, however, still have an authoritarian or patron-client nature. This policy has a negative effect on the resolution of ecological and social matters.

In Romania, the Left still has to face Stalinism. The author, in terms of rejecting monolithic thinking, considers Stalinism an isotope of capitalism, which has not ended in 1953, and offers an insight into her own opinion as well as the current Romanian discourse.

The article unfolds the critique of modernisation through presenting the historiography of the Indian workers, and seeks to answer the question: what theoretical framework is needed for social scientific thinking to be perspective. It provides a complex picture of the differences between the Indian work culture and the world of metropolises. Embedded in the centre-periphery structure, it illustrates the development of labour, which has deviated from liberal models.

Although some still refer to Mexico as a success story, there is a growing consensus that the free trade experiment, did not meet the expectations. According to the promises of the advocates of free trade, Mexico should have already harvested the fruits of liberalisation. Well, she did not. 

The Zapatist revolt, which has started a decade ago, is a local movement and a kind of spiritual and practical alternative to globalisation at the same time. The Zapatistas continually search for those theoretical and practical solutions that help the local strengthening of the movement.