The Dutch Socialist Party is looking for the conditions that create peace, security and welfare available to everybody in the EU. To achieve this goal, it wishes to support the fight for democracy and social rights.

Table of contents

1. Zeidler Miklós, Konok Péter, Sipos Péter, Vargyai Gyula, Ungváry Krisztián, Krausz Tamás : Hungary and World War II
2. Krausz Tamás : The unknown Holocaust in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union – Sketches on the causes and nature of the Nazi genocide.
3. Götz Aly : The deportation of Jews from Rhodes to Auschwitz
4. Susan Zimmermann : on Christian Gerlach-Götz Aly: Das letzte Kapitel
5. Bartha Eszter : on two books of Erzsebet Szalai
6. Hans Georg Betz : “New Right” in the developed democracies of the EU
7. Hannes Hofbauer : Brussels’ road from internal unification to Eastern enlargement
8. Andor László : Euro
9. Peter Wahl : Germany on the crossroads. The end of “Rhine capitalism”
10. Gavin Rae : Polish Social Democracy. The political failure of the “third way”
11. Thoma László : About the chances of the Left
12. Soltész Sándor : Contribution to the debate on state socialism
13. Krausz Tamás : An undelivered funeral speech – in memoriam Pal Szalai
14. Oscar Reyes, Stuart Hodkinson : A democratic forum is possible
15. Nagy András : BSA versus FSF. Two philosophies of the informatic revolution
16. Jan Marijnissen : Socialists in Europe

The SLD could become the leading party of the Polish Left, because it has kept its social democratic promises in the 1990s. The government led by the second SLD, however, failed to improve the public services, reduce unemployment and social inequalities, or push through any meaningful social reform. As a consequence of this, it has lost the backing of its supporters. 

The author argues that there were no real leftist alternatives for the state socialism in the 1980s. According to him, those discussions only displayed civil models of market economy and democracy as an alternative to the actual system.

According to the author, state socialism is only a station in the transition from pseudo-feudalism to capitalism, and as a consequence of this, the change of system was enforced by the interest of the organic capitalist development.