Our imaginary round table is surrounded by Wolfram Trieber, Friderike Habermann and Reinhard van der Veen. They explain their views on the so called anti-globalisationmovements and their mass demonstrations in the recent years.

In the early 1930s when the economic crisis devastated America many communities found a solution for exchange by developing community money systems. Farmers continued to produce and many unemployed also wanted to work but the capitalist system did not allow them to integrate their activities. From the 1980s these local money systems have re-emerged again, this time as a result of deliberate strategy.

The enlargement of the EU is perhaps the greatest challenge for European politics in the forthcoming decade.Michael Hindley, Peter Gowan, Catherine Samary, Jörg Huffschmied, Béla Galló, Péter Balázs and Annamária Artner  explain their views on the EU and its expansion.

What are the opportunities of the critical and progressive left? How should left-wing intellectuals relate to their marginalised position?

In January 2000, Perry Anderson editor of New Left Review outlined the philosophy of the journal for the forthcoming period. Boris kagarlitsky from Moscow in his counter-argument claimed that this is the death of the new left.