Can we speak about a unified Asia, as it was the practice within Euro-Americancapitalism for centuries? What role is given in the Asia discourse to the Indian subcontinent?

India joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2003 projects the deep crisis of the Indian agriculture. Food consumption indicators are falling in India for the first time in a long period, while the granaries are stuffed with grain. 

Table of contents

1. James Petras : The myth and reality of the third way
2. Adrian Little : Rethinking civil society
3. Wiener György : Class status and electoral behaviour
4. Alekszandr Nyikolajevics Taraszov : Decade of shame
5. Allin Cotrell, W. Paul Cockshott : Economic planning, computers and labour value
6. Borisz Kagarlickij : Political capitalism and corruption in Russia
7. Jamie Morgan : Sinking or drawning
8. Noreena Hertz : Of gates and ghettos
9. Alain Gresh : Anti-globalization movements and the Palestine question
10. Noam Chomsky : Palestine, Izrael, and the United States (interview)
11. Roth Endre : Jewishness and anti-Semitism in Romania
12. Andor László : Dornbusch versus Stiglitz- On Rudiger Dornbusch: Keys to Prosperity: Free Markets, Sound Money, and a Bit of Luck and on Joseph E. Stiglitz: Globalization and its Discontents
13. John Palmer : On Will Hutton: The World We’re in
14. Victor Wallis : On Walden Bello: The Future in the Balance: Essays on Globalization and Resistance
15. A NATO-val és a militarizmussal szembeni ellenállás aktivista hálózata : Opposition to NATO enlargement in Slovenia
16. Miren Etxezarreta, John Grahl, Jörg Huffschmid, Jacques Mazier : European economists for an alternative economic policy in Europe
17. Ungváry Krisztián : The responsibility of the editor
18. Werth Márk : A non-existent historian on an existing problem

A diary-like article about the events and publications of 2002 about the political developments in Hungary and the prospects of the Left. A review of the special edition of the history periodical Múltunk on Socialism is linked to the analisys of the new coalition government.

Two new constructions have been accomplished recently betwen the cities of Copenhagen and Malmö. Standing paralel they reveal the dual nature of the modern world order. One of them is a construction to the destruction of the natural environment, while the other is an example to ecological innovation.