According to the author's prognosis, by the end of the century, the two ruling formations of our age: the nation and the mass party will decline. World economic relations prove to be stronger than the national/ national economic integration. The left wing has to respond to the changed situation with a new strategy: In contrast to a „market Europe", a cultural identity and political forms that are above the nations have to be established.
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Interview with J. Pinior
The interview published here was granted by J. Pinior, one of the leaders of the organisation called „Polish Socialist Party – For a Democratic Revolution" which cooperates with Solidarity about their programme which – in contrast of reform policies initiated from above -places the emphasis on the direct role of the masses of people, their democratic power, e. g. the role on the strike committees.
Who are the anarcho-syndicalists and what they want?
A few documents of the anarcho-syndicalists in the Soviet Union. Rejection of bu reaucracy and the state. „ Power to the people but not the Soviets!"
What does the United Left want?
Declaration of a GDR left wing group.
The Soviet Union: property on the road to becoming collective
How do people in the Soviet Union imagine the reform of ownership framed in the term of „a multitude of forms of socialist ownership"? How do workers' collectives operating in the form of hiring and genuine cooperatives try to break the irrational limitations posed by state ownership and make their enterprises profitable? We get an answer to this question backed by examples.