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 science sociology and methodology study is aiming to answer the question what is the reason behind the supposed "supremacy" of the dominant western anthropology over the anthropology (ethnology, sociology and social science in general) research in the former state-socialist countries especially in Poland. Placing his argument in the context of world system analysis, the author concludes that the reason is that the political economy conditions of science have changed namely scientific knowledge became a product as well.

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.

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.

Self-management aims, not only for changing state organization and the functioning of economic units, but also at completely new and different kinds of relationships between individuals and social groups. It could become an influential concept, even without the involvement of political parties, or despite their propaganda. Society must be organized horizontally and not vertically, in order to lay down the requirements for self-management, and vice versa: only self-organization in social struggles can act as a basis for horizontal social organization.