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

For about two decades there is little difference between the social democratic parties and the social liberals in the decisive questions of economy and social politics. Therefore it can be internationally important that in Germany a new political formation, the Linkspartei came to the fore. This significant experiment led by the experienced and charismatic politicians, Gregor Gysi and Oskar Lafontaine can re-arrange the political fragmentation in Germany.

Table of contents

1. Barry K. Gills : Prophet in the desert. Andre Gunder Frank (1929-2005)
2. Andre Gunder Frank : The king is naked
3. Kees van der Pijl : The aesthetics of the empire and the defeat of the left
4. François Houtart : Is there an alternative to world capitalism?
5. David Harvey : The new imperialism and the global economy of deprivation. (Interview)
6. Andre Mommen : The essay examines the impact of globalization
7. Anwar Shaikh : The economic mythology of neoliberalism
8. Vigvári Gábor : Ten years after the Bokros-package. Comparative study of the anniversary articles in the Hungarian media
9. Lóránt Károly : The neoliberal politics of the European Union. From theory to practice
10. Andor László : Empire or whatever you want
11. Kiss Viktor : The alternatives of the reform politics – to the margin of a privately published book
12. Mocsáry József : The hour of justice. Thoughts on the village and agriculture
13. Laki László : The country and the villages “after agriculture”
14. Hajdu János : The Linkspartei comes to the fore in Germany
15. Szabó Tibor : Jean-Paul Sartre, the disputed intellectual

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.