Is there a future for the working class as an organized political and history-shaping force? Hardly, on the short run. The Left, however, has only got a future if it doesn't give up the critique and reform of capitalism and the hope and possibility for a more just system.

Interview with one of the most noted researchers of the economic and social effects of globalisation gave an interview to Eszmelet on the relation between migration, flow of workforce and cultural-religious diversity.

Table of contents

1. Arundhati Roy : Do turkeys enjoy Thanksgiving?
2. Hegyi Gyula : The working class fades away?
3. Saskia Sassen : The boulevards of Paris were built by the workers
4. Ana Bazac : A few ideas to the state socialism debate
5. Bartha Eszter : Workers after the workers’ state: ethnography of change in an ex-Socialist „top factory”
6. Seumas Milne : The English miners’strike
7. csé : Zoltan Muranyi (1960-2004)
8. Bill Jr. Fletcher : on David Bacon: The children of NAFTA
9. Melegh Attila : Globalisation and migration
10. Ravi Ahuja : On the margin of the history of the Indian workers’ movement
11. Scott William Hoefle : Political participation and public organisation in Middle Amasonia
12. Timothy A. Wise : Mexican retailers in a global economy
13. Bernard Duterme : Ten years of Zapatist revolt in Chiapas
14. Immanuel Wallerstein : The Lula era
15. Pierre Franklin Tavares : Why is there so many coups in Africa?
16. Rémy Herrera : The effects of the American embargo on Cuba
17. Baloldali Értelmiségi Konferencia : Declaration on the social contents of the EU Draft Constitution
18. Francia Kommunista Párt : Citizens’ Charta for a different Europe

The study reviews the international literature, which examines the question of international migration from a globalisation perspective, and draws conclusions about the process of globalisation from analysing migration. In spite of the historical continuities in the 1970s, a tremendous change has occurred in the world's political economic and geopolitical system, which reshaped international migration.