Tribal logic based on national, ethnic or religious bias always leads to inhuman and violent attitudes, in the Middle East and in other conflict. The starting point for any left-wing opinion is to distinguish between the opressors and the eopressed.

Eight years after their failure in Somalia, the Americans are again prepared to return to the African country. In the early 1990s, they blamed the UN for their lack of success.

Many commentators see the causes of Islam-linked terrorism in cultural and religious conflict. These, however, are only aspectsof nationalism. Within the cultural, religious and nationalclothes, however, deeper social, political and strategic contradictions can be found.

Table of contents

1. Arthur Miller : The end of illusions (interview)
2. Németh György : Lajos Bokros and the reform of the pension system
3. Orosz Éva : Is a shift of paradigm in health care possible?
4. Paul Wetherly : Anthony Giddens and the third way
5. Harasztosi Péter : The third way and the labour market
6. Tom Frank : Marketing and liberation
7. Robert Went : Globalisation and the long-wave (interview)
8. Andor László : American century
9. Andor László : Gulf war
10. Peter Gowan : 9/11 and global politics
11. Matthew Rotschild : New McCarthysm
12. Claude Julien : Attack on shrines
13. Alain Gresh : Letter to my doughter
14. Richard Dowden : Return to inferno
15. Katona Magda : The main causes of terrorosm and the possibilities to abolish them
16. Szigeti Péter : on Loic Waquant: Prisons of misery
17. (K. T.) : On Jozsef Szigeti: Intellectual autobiography (1921-1948)
18. Jörg Huffschmid : European economists for an alternative economic policy (extract)
19. Georges Németh : letter from Switzerland