The genetic knowledge accumulated in the last few years represents an enormous value in biological and medical research. Therefore, it was and is only up to the collaboration of devoted scientists, that the genom of the human race has not been "privatised" – that is, it has not been sold to private laboratories.

In 2002, the American legislation adopted a new agricultural bill, under which $18 billion per year is given to promote American agriculture. It seems, however, that the highly concentrated food industry, owned by a few multinationals, will be the only beneficiary of the support, and not the farmers themselves.

Global warming is doubtless the direct consequence of human industrial activity. The energy needs of the permanent increase in temperature is not provided by human activity, however, it is initiated and catalised by it.

There have been many scapegoats found for one of the worst environmental disasters of the last decades. The "accident" of the oil tanker Prestige, however, was not a coincidence, but the necessary consequence of the unregulated – laissez-faire – globalised economic system, which can happen again any time.

Table of contents

1. Bartha Eszter : Stalinism in old and new historiography: theoretical and methodological problems in the definition of the phenomenon
2. Kovács-Eichner György : Uniform approach: from the mystification of the past to the defence of the present
3. Eric J. Hobsbawm : Man of the extreme century (interview)
4. Seumas Milne : On Martin Amis: Koba the Dread
5. Konok Péter : On The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century
6. Krausz Tamás : On Alexander Stykalin: Georg Lukacs – the thinker and the politician
7. Krausz Tamás : On Elemér Hankiss: In a strange world? and László Lengyel: Near the distant
8. Tamás Gáspár Miklós : Illegal pamphlet, February 1982
9. Balázs Gábor : Self-regulating French socialism and the French New Left
10. Karácsony Mihály : Is the thought of co-operatives timely?
11. Lux Judit : The story of the Hungarian National Tripartite Council
12. John Sulston : Saving the human genom from speculation
13. Richard Kuper : The American agricultural law
14. Porkoláb László : Will there be weather forecasts in 2040?
15. David Cockroft, Caroline Lucas : The political economy of tanker disasters
16. Fekete György : The reclaim of recollection