What is transition? Has it been completed and what was the outcome for the individual countries? It might be surprising that comparative analysis tend to see China s the winner over East Europe and Russia. Why and to what extent?

The pamphlet addresses the similarities and differences in the activities of the State Protection Authority (Parliament), state protecting agents in the media (thought healers) and volunteers (NGOs).

In addition to ethnical pressure and historically frozen underdevelopment, Tibetans face the same problems as the majority of the population in China: increasing inequality and exploitation, loss of secure income, and the concentration most of the gains of the rapid development in the hands of few.

The article was originally published in In Defence of Marxism .

Readers and analysts now focus again on the Communist Manifesto that has been republished all over the world regardless the 1989 turn. This work is not only the most read political text in history but also gave a perfect prediction on the development trends of capitalism. How was it disseminated and received in a country where it achieved outstanding success and influence?

Pors (1877-1944) was a unique and interesting character in the Ukrainian workers movement whose name, due to different political considerations, remained unknown until recently. He represented views beyond the pressures coming from the orthodoxy of the Second International. His main interest was in the relationship between revolution, social and national claims that have strangely become a popular topic again.