The short news taken over from the international press discusses the fact of environmental destruction in Central America showing to what extent it is the consequence of the activities of the American monopolies, poverty they have induced as well as the (colonisation type) war forced onto the peoples of the region.

Thesis of an alternative European development (Keynote address by the Left Greens at the conference in the European Parliament in Strass-bourg on 21, November 1931). The programme-like writing starts out from the opportunities offered to aggressive capitalism provided by the collapse of the Soviet model, trying to encourage the search of a new (ecological centred, tolerant, democratic and exploitation denying) perspective of "social emancipation". The authors deny that any vanguard or parly system could play a role in creating such a road of development and stress the need for direct and pluralistic democracy. 

This lecture delivered at a Paris conference in 1991 analyses – on the basis of statistical data – the trend which is described in the international literature as the arrival of the age of "post-Fordism". In the author's view, the essence of the change of system lies in the fact that – in contrast to the Keynes-Ford model -the welfare model which used to seem to guarantee both some kind of relative equality ideal and the requirement of economic progress can no longer be coherent and therefore compatible with the demands of the capital. (In harmony with Amin's article on Trans-nationalisation"), the author calls attention to the halt in growth which is a new phenomenon.

Relying on statistical data Ross too, argues that the past few years of the world economy have been the age of decline and dramatic polarisation. Amidst growing impoverishment the performance of the "small tigers" of Asia can be considered as an exception and not the model of advancement. The Fukuyama apotheosis of liberal capitalism is just an apology denied by a multitude of fact.

The article analyzes the chances of the great regions of the world (Asia, ex-communist countries, the Third World and the West). Liberalism, con-servativism and populism in the new (United) Europe. The sources of the new nationalism reign over the ruins of the Soviet system. The lack of the internationalism on the "international" Left.