November 1989 was a kind of "black Friday" for social science, since the fall of the Berlin Wall had not been predicted by the prevailing tendencies. Mainstream social science still struggles to find an adequate paradigm.

The tendencies born in the changes of 1989 created a semi-colonial capitalist regime, which quickly found their common features with the interwar counter-revolutionary systems. This has led to the rehabilitation of the Horty  regime in Hungary.

Most people are convinced it is good thing to have been schooled and it makes one able to make a judgement on facts and information as well as to think rationally. Educated peoples are supposed to be defenders of democracy. Empirical research, however, suggests that the main function of education is socialisation. (Extract from the book Lies my teacher told me).

Table of contents

1. Tamás Gáspár Miklós : On post-fascism
2. Mészáros István : Globalisation and unemployment
3. Fóti Klára : The fears of the Union
4. Claire Wallace : The migration of young women in Hungary, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic
5. Somogyi Csaba : Half turn in the German immigration policy
6. Allan Borowski, Uri Yanay : Guest workers in Israel
7. Kav La’Oved hírlevél : Foreigners on the Israeli labour market
8. Greg Graffin : A Punk Manifesto
9. Tyner McCoy : The sound of hope and liberty (interview by Martin Smith)
10. Andor László : On Lebrecht: Artists and managers, requiem for classical music and Tokaji: Music under Stalinism and in the Third Reich
11. Magyar Gizella : On Theresa Hayter: Open borders: The case against immigration controls
12. Sean Healey : Rock groups on globalisation
13. Magyar Gizella : Debt boomerang
14. Marcos alparancsnok : Liberal fascism