Organised crime is one of the branches of big business: the illegal sector of capital. During the 1990s organised crime, through its "gross criminal product" has become the twentieth richest organisation in teh world. Richer that 150 soveregn states. Crime is not only the goalé of power but is also one of the forms of power through the economic processes related to capital accumulation and the reproduction of social life and political power.

The transnationalisation of law raises the question whether the power of nation states is declining and withit the monopoly of legislation on the nation state. The transnationalisation of law means the restructuring, rather than reducing of the existing governmental system. The elements of the global rule of law are related to the existing legal practice.

The existence and functioning of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has provoked debates almost since its foundation, which implies that international law and its institutions exist at the mercy of power politics and the balance of forces.

The global uniformisation of law is more advanced in the area of economic and commercial law than in criminal law. The legal regulation of the trans-border economic activity is not in contradiction with the liberalisation of world trade. It is in fact a precondition to the global efficiency of the market mechanism.

The study examines the relation between "existing socialism" and the diverse leftwing radical ideologies from a historic point of view. These, while founded on class based society, were uniform in the critique and refusal of the soviet type society. In the beginning leftwing radicals saw the cause of defeat of the revolution in the etatism of the Soviet sphere of interest, the emphasis shifted to the state capitalist character of "existing socialism". Although the leftwing radical movements marginalised after World War II and their arean has shrunk, it is worthwile to contemplate on the lessons of the critique for the end of state socialism.