By searching for the reasons behind the African military coups and coup attempts, the author comes to the conclusion that the unsuccessful adaptation to the new world order is the responsibility of both the multinationals and the Africans themselves. The result is poverty and destabilisation. 

Table of contents

1. Arundhati Roy : Do turkeys enjoy Thanksgiving?
2. Hegyi Gyula : The working class fades away?
3. Saskia Sassen : The boulevards of Paris were built by the workers
4. Ana Bazac : A few ideas to the state socialism debate
5. Bartha Eszter : Workers after the workers’ state: ethnography of change in an ex-Socialist „top factory”
6. Seumas Milne : The English miners’strike
7. csé : Zoltan Muranyi (1960-2004)
8. Bill Jr. Fletcher : on David Bacon: The children of NAFTA
9. Melegh Attila : Globalisation and migration
10. Ravi Ahuja : On the margin of the history of the Indian workers’ movement
11. Scott William Hoefle : Political participation and public organisation in Middle Amasonia
12. Timothy A. Wise : Mexican retailers in a global economy
13. Bernard Duterme : Ten years of Zapatist revolt in Chiapas
14. Immanuel Wallerstein : The Lula era
15. Pierre Franklin Tavares : Why is there so many coups in Africa?
16. Rémy Herrera : The effects of the American embargo on Cuba
17. Baloldali Értelmiségi Konferencia : Declaration on the social contents of the EU Draft Constitution
18. Francia Kommunista Párt : Citizens’ Charta for a different Europe

Overwhelming majority of the member states of the UN denounces the embargo of the US against Cuba. The arbitrary austerity measures equal to an undeclared war, the economic and social effects of which are unbearable for the people of Cuba.

The aim of the "New American Century" project of the Washington leadership is to stabilise inequality and create American hegemony in the world for any price, however Apocalyptic. The World Social Forum demands justice and survival.