A brief report about the 6th International Karl Polanyi Conference in Montreal 7-10 November, 1996

In their book Globalisation in Question, Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson confront the rhetoric of globalisation with a robust assertion of the potential for democratic governance in defence of public interest. Although their conclusions should gladden the hart of all progressive citizens, Hugo Radice finds the book deeply wrongheaded and even dangerous, despite his agreement with many of the policy proposals őresented by the two authors.

Summary of the one-day forum of our journal held on 7 December 1996 with foreign speakers including Alain Lipietz, Peter Gowan and Michael John.

Can the figure of the sambista be a Brazilian form of what Antonio Gramsci called "socialist bodies"? Is there a "political manifest" in the figure of the sambistas? If this so, how does the sambista represent an organism, which Gramsci called "political party"?

In the summer of 1996 President Boris Yeltsin ordered a new Russian national ideology. Those who undertook the implementation of the ukaz looked back to philosophers long forgotten and to characteristics of the Russian people one could have thought to have been eliminated from society.