The author summarises and analyses historical lessons from the 1956 workers councils. He shows that present-day falsifications and silence about the history of workers councils is related to the fact that the councils set up in factories and on the shop-floor aimed transforming state ownership to social ownership also rejecting the restoration of capitalism and fought against attempts bringing back private ownership.

Table of contents

1. Michel Collon : Ten questions about the banlieues
2. Kabai Imre : “Postindustrial” societies and the youth in modern sociology
3. Reich Orsolya, Kiss Viktor : New politics or a rightist youth? An attempt to explain the political orientations of the Hungarian youth
4. Tarnai István : On the book Social stratification and life events. The Hungarian youth in the postindustrial age by Imre Kabai
5. Bartha Eszter : The poor rich. The late Kádár-system in the popular literature
6. Alekszandr Nyikolajevics Taraszov : From the latest history of police provocation
7. Csoma Lajos : Skinhead- the public enemy
8. Bernard Duterme : The conditions, forms and first balance of the return of the Latin American left
9. James Petras : The determining role of peasant movements in Latin America
10. Julian Brookes, Richard Gott : Hugo Chávez and his Bolivarian revolution – Julian Brookes, the editor of the electric journal Mother Jones discusses with Richard Gott, the well-known Latin American reporter.
11. America Vera-Zavala : Venezuela: the country of parallels
12. Jonah Gindin : Made in Venezuela: variations on workers’ self-management
13. Szigeti Péter : The philosopher of power – on the state
14. Krausz Tamás : 1905 in the Leninist paradigm – a contribution. Lenin’s analysis of capitalism and the revolution
15. V. I. Lenin : Lecture on the revolution of 1905
16. Tamás Tibor : Search for alternatives against the “new oppressive regimes” – The international conference of the periodical Eszmélet in the Kossuth Klub on 14-16 October

After the change of regime, the political elite started a new division of land by ignoring any domestic and international trend. The surpassed alternative of the "Hungarian farmer" promised and promises no prospects for the country and the villages. Unfortunately, it is not the inventors who have to pay for this Don Quijotic idea.

Michael Ignatieff: Birodalom light; György Matolcsy: American empire – The scripts of the future; Stephen Howe: Empires; George Soros: The bubble of American supremacy: Correcting the misuse of American power

Zoltán Novák: The Budapest Reform Circle of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party – the role of the reform circle movement in the change of regime in Hungary