Joachim Becker – Rudy Weissenbacher (ed.): Dollarization, Euroization and Financial Instability: Central and Eastern European Countries Between Stagnation and Financial Crisis? Marburg, 2007, Metropolis.

The existence of the modern state is based on taxes paid to it. The final source of most of the tax collected by the state is productive wage work. Without productive wage work and the purchase of commodities the state misses its supply of food to live on.

In addition to pointing to biofuel as the culprit, the neoliberal policies of the World Bank and IMF in agriculture also bear great responsibility in creating a food crisis, as the examples in Mexico, Philippines and Malawi show. Farmers' groups opposing the paradigm of a globalized capitalist industrial agriculture have established an international network also proposing an alternative – food sovereignty.

The original article was published in The Nation June 2, 2008.

With a comprehensive transformation, the capitalist, export-oriented and corporate controlled agro-industry wants to put agriculture under its own as well as capitalist market control using free trade agreements, export subsidies and genetically modified plants. To gain a victory over famine – needs a different policy.

The original article Anette Groth – Alexander King: Wer die Nahrung kontrolliert … was published in  Junge Welt June 13, 2008.

In a parliamentary government system the main power is determined by elections. In Hungary, we well experienced five election cycles. Wiener examines how and how deeply electoral behaviour reflects class status, tradition, family networks, religion, moral stand and several other factors and how tendencies developed. He also questions whether established methods and analytical tools really fit to analyse and measure electoral behaviour.