The study warns that the Gulf war can be the overture to a "new barbarism". The main danger of that war lies in the fact that it loosens the almost existing concensus concerning the rejection of war solutions. We live under unprecedented conditions from the point of view that today the crisis of capitalism coincides with the theoretical-practical crisis of anti-capitalism. The Gulf war can also exemplify that fear itself can promote drifting to war. A factor increasing the dangers is that once again it has been proved that by nature, capitalism is unable to exclude war solutions.

The founder of the Christian base-community movement called "Bokor" [Cluster] discusses the determining experiences of his life. He was sentenced to a total of nine years in prison in the Rákosi and Kádár regimes but with his conviction he has also invited the anger of the official Church circles. Bulányi is a sovereign thinking piarist monk-teacher. He discusses the realisation of the need to stand up against intolerance and the importance of freedom and loyalty in solidarity and thinking.

The study tries to determine the ideas and functions of belief and ethics. The authors seek an answer to the question why did the new moral paradigm which was attempted to be created by the socialist movements fail? Finally, the article attempts to find out under what conditions does a truly new moral paradigm have a chance to be realised?

The short study warns against the grave dangers of applying a shock therapy in Hungary. The sinking of two thirds of society bears the danger of the gaining ground of right-wing radicalism.

The author analyses the history of the past few decades of Hungary and the consequences of the change of system from the point of view of constitutional law. He discusses the relationship between the civil society and the legal system and the theoretical background of the category of "law-based state", and then analyses the gaps of the law-based state in the legal system of state socialism (in contrast to summary judgements) and by widening them how did the old system gradually and necessarily grow into the political-legal democracy after the turn. Discussing the constitutional legal system after the turn, he states that it strengthens the state against society. He provides a short criticism of the contradiction of the government's law making activities.