Gaza: questions of international law
Had Israel the right to launch an attack against Gaza? Was it really an external attack that the Jewish State protected itself? By legal standards, were the Israeli military actions proportional and were they in accordance with the norms of international humanitarian law? The renowned international lawyer answers all the above questions with a definitely positive yes.
The long shadow of Ariel Sharon
The Gaza War was the consequence of the policy of force rooting in the revisionist Zionism of the 1920s and expanding after Ariel Sharon took power in 2001 – a policy that was backed by the Bush-doctrine securing the solid support of a superpower over eight years. It would be too early to answer the question how the apparently diverging US and Israeli politics in the region – after Barack Obama set his new priorities in the Middle-East – can be consolidated.
The Present Crisis (experpt from Beyond Capital IV)
Most of Hungarians are surprised by the global economic crisis: "How is it? We have been told that capitalism is a good thing but then what is this crisis?" Marxist analysis is far deeper: it is analysing the general structural crisis of the system that is deeper than a business cycle. 1987, 1993, 2008 black Monday, black Tuesday, black Wednesday…
Communism of the 21st Century
The old French philosopher, still maintaining his membership in the communist party, is confessing to the validity or even increasing relevance of the idea of communism. It is, in contracts with the state and power centred socialism, based on the appropriation of the productive and trading assets by collective producers. This has never been "tried out" thus it makes no sense to speak about the fall of communism. If we are now: "aiming less than communism then we will slide down with social democrats who are accepting all." To facilitate action the traditional vertical-hierarchic organisation of the party should be less preferred to by horizontal and network-like forms of organisation.
Common Weath
A lecture held at the European Social Forum on the soon to be published book Common Wealth (with co-author Antonio Negri) reviewing the history of alterglobalisation movements, analysing features of metropolitan struggles, the possibilities of revolutionary transition and also the role of joy and laughter in politics and the movement.