Hungary and the IMF
A double edge study, criticising, on the one hand, those considering the contracts between the IMF and Hungary a relationship free of politics and dependency, and, on the other hand, those who claim that the subordination of Hungary to external financial conditions represents some kind of conspiracy against the Hungarian nation. The author describes the evolution of the relationship between Hungary and the Fund, and reflects on the literature on external indebtedness.
Declaration
A document from the United Kingdom about the necessity and possibilities of developing the "really existing democracy".
Talking about social policy
Katalin Lévai, Susan Zimmermann, and István Kakuszi discuss the systemic change in Hungarian social policy. The debate concerns the application of models of social policy regimes, as well as the room for manoeuvre of contemporary social policy maker.
To the Russian intelligentsia
The appeal of leading representatives of Russian arts, science and culture, to condemn the anti-democratic measures taken by Boris Yeltsin in September 1993.
Eurocentrism and its mirror images: postmodernism versus world history
The article deals with the ideology of postmodernism as it is currently debated in the international intelligentsia and in academia, and which makes itself felt in "identity politics" of race, gender and sexual preference. It suggests that "identity politics", and their theoretical sources, are symptoms of and not a solution to the breakup of a phase of capital accumulation, and the resulting breakup of the long received ideas of the international left.