A book written by Erzsébet Szalai is a first attempt to present a comprehensive volume about the transformation of employee representation in Hungary, starting with the movement of workers' councils. The reviewer was part of the movement that launched the workers' councils, and comments the volume from the point of view of the eyewitness and the historian.

A new magazine that intends to become the common forum of the anti-Maastricht left, launched by British, Dutch and Belgian politicians. The questions of monetary union can be found in the focus of Spectre, but sufficient space is devoted to the issues of female labour, militarism, and the integration of the Western and Eastern halfs of the continent.

Hundreds of millions of people have seen Dallas worldwide. The article tells us how the ideology of the era was transmitted in the series. This era was characterised by the neo-conservative counter-revolution, the new round of the cold war, the weakening of community values, as well as the rise and fall of oil. At the end, the authors explain which of the two main heros carry greater level of morality.

A recent book by progressive economists provides a devastating critique of the idea of single market and monetary union in Europe. The authors, however, can also be criticised from an ecological point of view, for making too much concessions to grand infrastructural projects destroying the environment and local jobs. (A. Amin and J. Tomaney (eds): Behind the Myth of the European Union: Prospects for Cohesion. Routledge, London 1995)

The success of a play does not only depend on the efforts of actors and directors, but also whether the public sentiment is receptive to the ideas presented from the stage or not. Shaw's drama as well as Lerner's and Leowe's musical became successful in periods when emancipation was an the agenda – class and gender in Britain, and race and gender in the USA. Emancipation in any sense is far from the political concerns in Hungary, which explains why a recent attempt failed.