One of the founders of SZETA (Fund for Aiding the Poor) speaks about the socio-cultural features of poverty, the difficulties of self-organisation by the poor and the possible methods of helping them to defend their rhterests and integrate into society.

Jozsef Herman's interview with B. Denitch, a Yugoslav born New York professor about Eastern Europe, socialism.

The participants of the round table, noted West European Marxists and bourgeoise experts analyse the causes and consequences of the collapse of the East European systems. They try to find the difference between Marxism and „Marxism-Leninism", the Leninist and social democratic basis of interpreting Marxism and its relative truth. They do not only see the decay but also the unexpected emergence of the revolutionary activity of the masses, the possibbility of the development of a new left wing unity which does not simply mean identification with social democracy.

Catherine Samary, a professor of the „Dauphine" university in Paris attempts to analyse and interpret the East European systems on the basis of formation theory and through comparing them with contemporary capitalism. The statement should be underlined that the East European economic reforms should be viewed as „a means in the hands of the national bureaucracy to save its own power – that is to prevent a genuine social democratisation". This strata wants to preserve its own privileged position by channelling the reforms to the level of the market and avoid the other alternative of the reform: „the involvement of the masses of people in the control of the economy and society".

This time, the reader has the opportunity to become acquainted with the documents of the Czechoslovak Left Wing Alternative movement drawn up in late 1989 which in many ways resemble the goals of the Hungarian Left Wing Alternative Association.